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...Paul Li, founder of Chinese electric vehicle parts supplier U-Power, claims working with the country’s EV sector, which is by far the world’s biggest, can mean foreign companies developing cars years faster...
...With 23 manufacturers participating — including Panasonic, Nissan and Honda Motor — the “all Japan” development project is set to accelerate under Toyota’s leadership....
...Tesla was the first successful American car company to emerge since Chrysler in 1925....
...The benefits include tax-free import of machinery, unrestricted foreign ownership and corporate tax holidays for engine manufacturing....
...And none of the big carmakers can afford a Trump-inspired recession that hits already softening car sales....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...Tesla has for several years been acknowledged as the disrupter of choice in the motor industry. Its upmarket Model S has shown that electric cars can be desirable and profitable....
...Nissan and Honda (as well as other foreign carmakers) have previously launched China-only brands in response to pressure from Beijing to speed up the transfer of technology within foreign-domestic joint...
...Car-maker Honda released an extended version of its spot last week....
...Honda plans push for hybrids in China Honda Motor Co. plans a new push to make and sell hybrid cars in China as the Japanese automaker looks for ways to revitalize its brands here and as the overall industry...
...Ford Motor’s Kuga....
...Unlike larger, richer rivals such as Toyota and Honda, mid-size Japanese carmakers have long relied on foreign allies for manufacturing scale and access to overseas markets....
...In recent weeks another CAC 40 heavyweight has come under siege, this time from Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American activist investor and former marine....
...Ingrassia describes the moment in 1979 when Detroit should have ceased kidding itself: when Honda built its first US plant in Ohio and showed that American workers could make high-quality cars....
...Musk’s Tesla Motors in July, the company was emerging from a bumpy start up period....
...Honda will be showing off a production version of the Insight, a hybrid it says will be lower-priced than the Prius....
...In terms of family cars and runabouts, it’s hard to feel sympathy for Detroit when the automotive chiefs clearly haven’t been listening to Americans who define themselves as Acura, Toyota, BMW and Honda...
...The decline of Detroit’s three carmakers has come to this: General Motors’ market value sank this week below Mattel, the maker of Matchbox toy cars....
...Kevin Keir, senior vice-president of Honda Motor Europe and its managing director for the UK, describes Slough as a “super location”....
...Honda Motor dropped 3.9 per cent to Y3,210 and Suzuki Motor lost 3.8 per cent to Y2,550....
...Some General Motors, Ford and Chrysler assembly plants now reserve prime parking spots for workers who drive Detroit-built cars....
...As yet, only Honda has set up a plant to make cars specifically for the export market....
...Ford and General Motors said they planned production cuts of more than 7 per cent in North America in the first quarter after a fall in car and truck sales in November....
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