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...But Japan’s auto giants are not the only ones working on this “game-changing” innovation....
...At the same time, the Japanese auto industry is being challenged by other Asian nations....
...A few years ago, I discussed the potential of fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology with a friend working for a major American auto company....
...International auto shows are becoming decidedly less international as countries from the US to Japan focus on building up their own industries....
...Chinese EV companies have an extensive home market, which even European auto giants, notably German ones, depend on....
...BYD exported more than 80,000 Chinese-made autos in the first half of 2023, compared to Tesla’s 180,000 units....
...The silver sports car, he said, was “just a prototype” intended to show Sony’s tech capabilities in the auto space. His strategy appears to be bearing fruit....
...Over a decade later, this technology is challenging the dominance of the internal combustion engine in auto markets worldwide....
...Analysts are upbeat about the future of electric motorbikes in Indonesia, in part because global auto giants’ electric cars remain too expensive for local customers....
...Hello, this is Akito Tanaka from Singapore. Here, various Covid-related restrictions are finally being eased, and life is slowly starting to return to how it was before the pandemic....
...The company recently opened a new fab in Villach, Austria, to ramp up output of power semiconductors primarily used in the auto industry, particularly in electric vehicles and hybrids....
...“While monthly production will likely fluctuate amid lingering supply shortages for semiconductors and other components, it appears to be returning steadily to a solid growth track,” wrote Yuriko Tanaka,...
...In Europe, Renault rival Groupe PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles completed a merger and formed a new auto group, Stellantis, which became the fourth-largest auto group after the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi...
...Made in China 2025 has also spawned a wave of promising start-ups in the increasingly digitised auto industry....
...Nippon Paint Holdings SECTOR: manufacturing / HQ: osaka, japan Masaaki Tanaka, chief executive of Nippon Paint Holdings since early 2020, engineered a complex $12bn deal in the middle of the pandemic with...
...Tang Jin, a senior researcher following China’s auto market at Mizuho Bank, predicts that stiffer competition in the country’s EV battery market will trigger a major shakeout among local makers....
...“Negotiations for cost cuts with suppliers occur in other sectors like autos but in Amazon’s case, its presence and influence is just too big,” said Michiaki Tanaka, a professor at Rikkyo University, who...
...As recently as last year, the fund manager delighted in pointing out that if you type “why gold bugs . . .” into Google, it auto-completes the sentence with “ . . . are wrong”....
...“If we can only manufacture about 2,000 vehicles, that’s not mass production,” says Yoshikazu Tanaka, chief engineer of the Mirai....
...The apocalyptic forecast from Tanaka echoes a general sense of crisis shared by the global auto industry as it wrestles to build cars that do not harm the environment....
...The code should serve as “an ignition key” towards “a change in corporate culture”, says Mr Tanaka. A further catalyst for action is the weaker yen....
...Figures last Friday revealed that Japan’s industrial production had risen for the third month in a row, with auto manufacturers reviving especially strongly....
...Nissan Motor fell 9.5 per cent after it shut down its four auto assembly plants in Japan. The biggest faller of all 225 stocks in the Nikkei was Tokyo Electric Power, down 24 per cent....
...Companies don’t spend on PR, and there are few specialists,” Mr Tanaka says....
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