Qashqai Production in Sunderland Remains Unchanged
Qashqai Production in Sunderland Remains Unchanged : The plans for Qashqai production in Sunderland have not changed, according to Nissan, although reports stated that the company would review its decision to build the vehicle at the location. But the vehicle maker urged the UK and EU to work together to ensure that an orderly Brexit […]
Auto Trader Expands with Software Acquisition
Auto Trader Group, an automotive classified advertising business, has purchased a software specialist for an undisclosed sum. The specialist in cause is KeeResources, a company that provides its services to the automotive industry, including a detailed vehicle taxonomy dataset for new and used cars which Auto uses to power its platform. Funded in 2000, the software […]
Foundrax Delivers Quality Components for Automotive Manufacturer
Foundrax, the world’s leading specialists in Brinell hardness testing, has just shipped a second bespoke system for the intricate inspection of automotive suspension components to a full-service supplier of aluminium and plastic automotive solutions in Mexico. The leading supplier of high-quality automotive parts that include aluminium powertrain, structural and transmission components have international automotive manufacturers […]
Green Light to New Automotive Initiative
The selection of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Levels (NMCL) programme, which will deliver the government’s national supplier competitiveness and productivity improvement initiative, has been announced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Designed to improve competitiveness, raise workforce capacity and increase productivity of UK manufacturers, NMCL will be boosting the nation’s exports […]
Register for this Year’s Automechanika Birmingham
The UK’s must-attend automotive exhibition returns with a larger presence in 2019 before going biennial Automechanika Birmingham is set to return to the NEC from 4 to 6 June 2019, with many major industry players signed up to exhibit. Following hot on the heels of the 2018 event, which saw 86 percent of visitors having […]
Record Year for Car Sales at Rolls-Royce
Record Year for Car Sales at Rolls-Royce : Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced its highest number of sold vehicles in its 115-year history in 2018. 4,107 cars were delivered by the luxury brand to more than 50 countries across the world, with its Phantom model hailed as a “major growth driver”. The Cullinan, which are […]
Brexit and the UK Automotive Industry
Brexit and the UK Automotive Industry : Uncertainty around the final Brexit deal between the UK and the EU still remains. This is particularly true for the automotive industry where OEMs such as Ford, Honda and Renault-Nissan have all publicly raised their concerns. To find out what was happening within the industry, OpenText and the […]
Work on New R&D Facility Begins
Work on a £2 million research and development facility in Gateshead has been started by BorgWarner, the electric vehicle component maker. After acquiring Gateshead’s Sevcon last year, the US-headquartered company will safeguard 200 jobs by building the new laboratory, which will be used by engineers to develop clean technology prototypes for testing. “The new premises […]
Automotive Industry a Pioneer for Most Technologies
Automotive Industry a Pioneer for Most Technologies : The adoption of smart manufacturing technologies is growing in almost all industries within the leading manufacturing countries such as the United States, Japan, and Germany, and the automotive industry has been a pioneer for most technologies in each of them, finds ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm […]
Torqeedo Launches Lithium-Ion Battery for the Marine Market
Torqeedo continues to bring the best of automotive technology to the marine market with a more than 30% capacity increase for its Deep Blue lithium-ion battery with technology by BMW i. The new 40 kWh Deep Blue battery (i3-type) brings the latest in automotive-grade lithium-ion technology to the marine industry, offering an increase in energy […]
