SAIC Volkswagen, a China-based joint-venture automaker established by Volkswagen and China-based automaker SAIC Motor, saw sales of its automobiles in the China market in June and July 2022 hike on year by 94% and 85% respectively, according to China-based media reports.

Taiwan-based PCB makers are expected to benefit from fast growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs), with EV-use PCBs becoming one of the main sources of growth in second-half 2022 sales, according to industry sources.

Indonesia's plan to move its capital from Jakarta to Penajam Paser Utara, East Kalimantan is becoming more and more real.

The current approach to fixing climate change is not promising. Not only are many efforts going into the net-zero project, but the outcome is always the bathtub metaphor.

Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) revised its sales outlook this year to an on-year increase despite excess inventories held by its customers.

Third-generation compound semiconductors such as SiC and GaN are very crucial to the future development of electrical vehicles (EV) and green power industries, and heterogeneous integration will play a pivotal role in determining market competitiveness for the WBG (wide bandgap) components, according to Hao-Chung Kuo, director of Semiconductor Research Center under Hon Hai Research Institute.

Tesla has signed contracts worth approximately US$5 billion to purchase nickel from two companies in Indonesia on August 8, 2022, according to Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for investment and maritime affairs.

Automotive part maker Iron Force Industrial, viewing that main international automakers have planned to launch new models of new energy cars and sales of new cars are being boosted in the China market, looks to potentially increased orders, according to industry sources.

After walking out of the impact of the pandemic on production, car makers in India still have to face lingering chip shortages, which may hurt the demand in the upcoming festive season.

China-based Jidu Auto is marching toward the realization of intelligent electric vehicles (EV). Baidu's car-manufacturing brand announced that it aims to deliver the first production robot car in the second half of 2023, reaching a delivery goal of 800,000 vehicles per year by 2028.

Heat dissipation module makers TaiSol Electronics, Yen Sun Technology, Auras Technology and Jentech Precision Industrial have extended application of products from consumer electronics to automotive electronic components, according to industry sources.

SK IE Technology Co. (SKIET), a company under SK group and in the business of electronics materials, announced on August 5, 2022, that it has signed a deal with Vingroup to supply battery materials.

Polarizer maker BenQ Materials is expanding production capacity for separator films used in EV Li-ion batteries at its factory in central China, with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2022, according to company president Ray Liu.

Taiwan-based optical lens module makers Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) and Calin Technology have stepped up their deployments in the AR/VR and automotive sectors, according to industry sources.

The US Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act on August 7, which contains the renewal and improvement of an electric vehicle (EV) tax credit for US buyers. However, whether the revised tax credit will boost the country's EV market remains unknown, as many car models will likely not be eligible.