- Japan allows first exports of hydrogen fluoride to S.Korea since export curbs – source – Reuters: Japan has approved shipment of hydrogen fluoride used in making computer chips to South Korea for the first time since imposing tighter export controls in July, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
- Ivory Coast signs agreement with Toyota to build assembly plant – Reuters: Ivory Coast’s government signed an agreement on Thursday with Toyota to build a vehicle assembly plant in the West African nation, the office of Ivorian Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly said in a statement.
- Mazda ditching JPMorgan Chase for Toyota Financial Services for automotive loans, leases – Automotive News: Mazda to use Toyota Financial Services for loans, leases | Tesla launching insurance | British assembly slump | Detroit auto show home gets new name …
- Volvo, Veoneer joint venture Zenuity teams up with CERN on AV development – Automotive News: The collaboration will focus on helping autonomous vehicles make predictions and decisions faster to improve safety and minimize energy consumption.
- Buffett-Backed BYD Close to Battery Supply Deal With VW`s Audi – Bloomberg: Volkswagen AG’s Audi luxury-car brand is in talks to add China’s BYD Co. as a supplier of batteries used in its premium electric vehicles, according to people …
- GM Is Now Detroit`s Smallest Auto-Making Employer – Bloomberg: General Motors Co. now employs fewer union-represented American workers than its domestic rivals for the first time since the United Auto Workers started …
- Revenues of 600 leading automotive suppliers likely to shrink by 5 pct – Xinhuanet: Revenues of the 600 leading automotive suppliers worldwide are likely to shrink by five percent this year, the …
- More Tesla Solar-Panel Cases Emerge in Wake of Walmart Suit – Bloomberg: Homeowner insurers file lawsuits, question safety of installations.
- Ford targets urban commuters with its first EV for China – Automotive News: Ford plans to introduce at least 10 electrified vehicles under the Ford and Lincoln brands in China in the next three years. Its first EV in China, a battery-powered …
- Volvo unit demonstrates driverless truck in Japan – Mainichi: The Japanese unit of Sweden’s AB Volvo demonstrated before journalists on Thursday a highly autonomous truck at a sugar factor.
- London mayor says firms must play by the rules as Uber faces license renewal – Reuters: London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan said everyone must play by the rules when asked on Thursday about taxi app Uber’s London license, which is due to expire in less than a month’s time.
- Linde takes 10% stake in Swiss hydrogen group – Reuters: Linde , the world’s biggest industrial gases group, has taken a 10% stake in Hydrospider AG, a Swiss producer and supplier of hydrogen derived from renewable …
- Porsche`s $3,100-a-Month Subscriptions Spreading to More Cities – Bloomberg: Porsche is expanding its app-based subscription *service* to four new cities in the U.S. and Canada, deepening its experiment in flexible car ownership even as …
- Why Uber Still Can’t Make a Profit – New York Times: Uber transformed American transportation and changed the United States economy. But a decade after its founding, the once-swaggering company is …
- Don’t take it for granted that consciousness will continue: Elon Musk – CNBC: Alibaba Founder Jack Ma and Tesla CEO Elon Musk discuss the idea of life beyond earth. Musk says spending 1% of the earth’s resources on making …
- Tesla’s Musk, Alibaba’s Ma talk aliens and AI, skip issues like trade – Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba founder Jack Ma discussed Mars and artificial intelligence but steered clear of the U.S.-China trade war in their first joint appearance on Thursday that some audience members said was disappointing.
- Competition over new technologies across industries led to Toyota-Suzuki capital tie-up – Mainichi: In May, Toyota President Akio Toyoda told a press conference, “(C.A.S.E. is) changing the very concept of the automobile. It’s possible that the …
- NHTSA to test safety of mirrorless cameras in autos in US – Automotive News: GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, Tesla and other automakers have petitions pending before the safety regulator to use camera-based rear or side-vision systems …
- Peugeot Workers Target Brexit Spoils – Bloomberg: The Paris-based group inherited Vauxhall in 2017 when it bought the carmaker’s German sibling Opel from General Motors Co., under which the U.K. …
- UK Monthly Car Production Falls on Weaker Europe, Asia Demand – Bloomberg: … Motor Manufacturers and Traders said in a statement Thursday. Export production, which represents 8 out of every 10 cars built in Britain, fell 15%.
- Elon Musk: Computers will surpass us ‘in every single way’ – CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk pointed to advances in artificial intelligence as evidence that we are smarter than computers in fewer and fewer realms.
- While Carmakers Suffer, Motorcycles Are on a Roll in Europe – Bloomberg: Even as European auto sales decline, increasing congestion and renewed interest in two-wheel transportation have helped boost deliveries of motorcycles.
- UAW corruption probe stirs distrust in rank-and-file – The Detroit News: Wednesday’s raids by federal agents are likely to raise worker tensions less than three weeks before labor contracts with Detroit carmakers expire
- Tesla is selling car insurance to owners of its vehicles in California – Latimes: Tesla owners can now buy insurance policies from the electric car company in what may be an essential step toward it selling driverless vehicles.
