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Monday 16 January 2023
LGES and Honda to build joint battery plant in Ohio
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution and Japan-based Honda Motor have decided to build their joint battery plant in Ohio, the US. They plan to start construction early this...
Monday 16 January 2023
Foxconn EV roadmap stretches well from a small town in US
Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) has set electric vehicle (EV) production as the core of its 3.0 transformation scheme, and its Ohio EV plant acquired from Lordstown Motors will be playing...
Monday 16 January 2023
Carmakers rush into India's burgeoning EV market
As India has seen double-digit EV sales growth, local and global carmakers are eyeing the world's third-largest car market and planning to invest in the manufacturing of EVs and EV...
Friday 13 January 2023
China's BYD plans push into India's burgeoning EV market
Chinese carmaker BYD Co. is planning a bold push into India's electric car market, joining a rush of foreign carmakers jockeying for a bigger share of the world's fourth-biggest auto...
Friday 13 January 2023
Volkswagen sales fall to 11-year low after chip shortages crimp output
Volkswagen AG expects easing supply bottlenecks and existing orders to boost sales this year even as shortages of semiconductors in 2022 led deliveries to an 11-year low.
Friday 13 January 2023
Why is TSMC suddenly interested in producing mature chips overseas, undaunted by China's price dumping?
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) announced that it will increase mature technology capacity for automotive applications overseas on January 12. It is counter-intuitive...
Friday 13 January 2023
South Korean makers urged to develop memory-based logic chips
To sustain their leaderships in the global memory market, South Korean memory makers have to step up the development of new-generation memory technology and memory-based logic chips,...
Friday 13 January 2023
L4 autonomous driving may commercialize before L3, says Baidu CEO Robin Li
Baidu co-founder, chairman, and CEO Robin Li, at Baidu Create 2022 on January 10, said autonomous driving will become reality sooner than people have expected, while the commercialization...
Friday 13 January 2023
Win Win Precision to produce PV modules made of N-type solar cells
PV module maker Win Win Precision Technology (WWPT) will assemble N-type TOPCon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) and HJT (hetero-junction with intrinsic thin layer) solar cells into...
Friday 13 January 2023
Power devices makers keen to explore car applications with partners
Taiwan's power components makers are teaming up with IC design houses or large business groups to develop complementary products and share resources, sales channels and supply chains,...
Friday 13 January 2023
China sees 93.4% NEV sales growth in disrupted 2022
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released the country's 2022 automotive production and sales data on January 12. While COVID-19 had created a strong headwind,...
Friday 13 January 2023
Rohm to supply 4G SiC MOSFET for EV inverters for Honda
Rohm Semiconductor announced on Jan 10 that it is supplying its new fourth-gen SiC MOSFETs and gate driver ICs for EV inverters made by automotive parts supplier Hitachi Astemo.
Friday 13 January 2023
Automotive-grade MPU market expected to reach US$8 billion in 2025, says Avnet
Cars require more microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) as they become smarter and more connected, according to Avnet Taiwan, adding that the trend will continue driving...
Friday 13 January 2023
OLED to be in competition with LCD for application as automotive displays
While LCD panels have been dominantly used in automotive displays, demand for higher-quality in-vehicle displays will lead to competition between OLED and LCD panels, according to...
Friday 13 January 2023
Bosch to invest US$1 billion in China; SiC a major focus
Germany-based automotive supplier Robert Bosch GmbH is to spend US$1 billion in a span of 10 years to make electric vehicle (EV) components in China, according to Bloomberg...