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- Jaguar Land Rover opens factory in Brazil – Just-auto: Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover has officially opened its factory in Brazil – its first wholly-owned manufacturing plant outside of the UK. The new plant will build Range Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport – the most popular Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in Brazil.
- Ontario to provide C$80 million grant to Fiat Chrysler -report – Reuters: The relationship between Fiat Chrysler and Ontario had soured after the automaker sought financial assistance for a minivan factory in 2014, the …
- Tata sales plunge at home – Renault closes in – Just-auto: The rise of Renault, thanks mainly to the Kwid, continues, and the French manufacturer is now in fact just ahead of Tata for the year to the end of May.
- Takata selling shares in automakers to raise cash – Automotive News: Takata, the embattled airbag maker behind the biggest automotive safety recall, said it’s selling shares it owns in automakers to raise funds as the company faces compensation claims for its defective devices.
- Nissan develops new ethanol fuel cells to jump infrastructure hurdle – Automotive News: Nissan Motor Co. has developed a new kind of fuel cell drivetrain for cars that taps an onboard tank of ethanol instead of…
- Nissan to develop ethanol-based fuel cell technology by 2020 – Reuters: Nissan said its technology would be ready for use in vehicles in 2020, … but Nissan is planning to use it to generate electricity in fuel cell stacks to …
- Tata overtaken by Toyota in its home market – Just-auto: The recent addition of several new small cars has done nothing to help Tata Motors’ sales in India, the company having last month been eclipsed by traditional number five best selling brand Toyota.
- Curious word choice hints at Suzuki patriarch’s plans – Nikkei:
- BMW exec says industry ready to battle hackers and make move to 5G – Automotive News: Car hacking may be a hot topic but BMW’s vice president for new technologies and innovations, Christoph Grote, said it is not unfamiliar territory.
- Statistically, self-driving cars are about to kill someone. What happens next? – Guardian: At some point, a car driving autonomously or semi-autonomously will cause a fatal accident. If their performance is remotely comparable to a human’s,…