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...It ranks around 15th in the world, far ahead of Japan’s market leader, Toyota Motor....
...James Womack, the research director at MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program and a pioneer in adopting Toyota’s “lean manufacturing” ideas in the US auto sector, remembers being blown away by Scaringe...
...Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX chief executive, spoke to Peter Campbell, global motor industry correspondent, at FT Live’s Future of the Car conference in London on Tuesday May 10....
...In 2019, Toyota Motor and Suzuki Motor announced they would form a capital partnership....
...He and his wife have already moved to Austin, Texas, where they purchased a home last year....
...Hota Industrial Manufacturing — a key supplier to Ford, General Motors and Tesla — has set out an aggressive expansion plan that includes building three new factories in its home market and more than tripling...
...This is encouraging the big Japanese makers, such as Toyota Motor, Honda Motor and others, who plan to take up incentives offered by the Thai government to hybrid vehicle makers to add manufacturing capacity...
...Japanese government officials pushed back against Donald Trump’s criticism of Toyota as the attack on the country’s most powerful corporate name sent shockwaves across Japan Inc....
...In the middle of last year, Mr Robson began pitching it to the world’s top auto component and carmakers, including General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota. About a dozen said they were interested....
...There could be a silver lining: a Trump government may ease fuel economy standards and more infrastructure spending could mean more pick-up truck sales — and Ford has some of the most profitable truck sales...
...The plant also encapsulates some less obvious innovations borrowed from the lean manufacturing philosophy developed by Toyota of Japan....
...This would not be Britain, however, if people did not point to the cloud alongside the silver lining....
...Honda Motor fell 1.8 per cent to Y2,605, Toyota slid 2.6 per cent to Y3,055, while Sonylost 2.8 per cent to Y2,336....
...General Motors – with the memory of the worst crisis in its history still fresh – indulged in a futuristic flight of fancy at the Shanghai Expo....
...Also in July, US non-manufacturing services activity grew slightly, contrary to expectations of a decline....
...The joint venture, known as New United Motor Manufacturing (Nummi), gave Toyota its first assembly facilities in North America and provided GM with an insight into the Japanese carmaker’s vaunted production...
...He spoke of nearly doubling Volvo’s sales to 600,000 by 2015, but promised anxious delegates that the brand would keep its European manufacturing footprint....
...Toyota Motor rose 5.6 per cent to Y4,910 and Honda jumped 5.3 per cent to Y3,600....
...They had already been boosted earlier in the week by high earnings from Texas Instruments....
...As GM, Ford, Volkswagen and others began to ape its manufacturing practices, Toyota worked to develop its vehicle design and marketing skills....
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