Archives for 2021

The Dailykanban wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Tis used to be the season when car executives all over the globe go on vacation with their families to far-away lands.  Except this year, and hopefully not too many years thereafter. Christmas, or whatever you may call it, will be celebrated, nonetheless. At the Dailykanban, we’ll celebrate by overhauling and fine-tuning our systems. We shall be back Monday, January 3rd, 2022.

No morning news until next year, there won’t be many anyways.

Should you see the occasional hiccup, remember, we are diddling with our servers ….

 

Friday Morning Auto News, Dec 24, 2021: Tesla: No more games (after taken to court by NHTSA); Nissan, Mitsu stop kei car shipments; more

 

Note: These are the last Morning Auto News this year as the Dailykanban takes a few days off. Until 2022!

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World’s Largest Automakers 2021: Toyota on a tear, Volkswagen out of breath

With a mighty year-end push, Toyota Group is making its German rival Volkswagen Group eating dust. With all but one month tallied, there is no doubt that Toyota will end the year as World’s Largest Automaker 2021 – something we have predicted for months.

What we could not predict was the distance between the two contenders. Toyota now leads by nearly 1.4 million units over Volkswagen, and when everything will be tallied a month for now, Toyota might even be ahead of VW by a few cars more.

World’s automakers have been pummeled by a shortage of parts, mostly of the electronic kind no modern car can’t be sold without. Toyota has managed that shortage a bit better. Its November production exceeded that of November 2020 by 3%.  According to Toyota, its output from December onward is “expected to be at high levels.”

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Thursday Morning Auto News, Dec 23, 2021: No Apple car yet, but a Huawei car; Musk not done offloading stock; Renault/Brilliance JV going bust; more

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Wednesday Morning Auto News, Dec 22, 2021: NHTSA opens investigation into Tesla; Musk done selling, or so he says; more

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Tuesday Morning Auto News, Dec 21, 2021: Toyota starts soft&hardware update service; Tesla bulls lick wounds; Nikola pays $125 to SEC; more

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Monday Morning Auto News, Dec 20, 2021: Toyota to slow down production in Jan; Musk to pay $11bln in taxes; more

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Friday Morning Auto News, Dec 17, 2021: Musk hit with $12bln tax bill, Tesla with new investor lawsuit; more

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