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Tyre producer Michelin to close two plants in France

La Tribune claimed that French tyre producer Michelin intends to shut down two of their plants in France, TASS reports According to the paper, plants located in the western communes of Cholet (Bretagne) and Vannes (Pays de la Loire) and employing 1,254 people in total, will be closed down ‘no later than early 2026’. The management cites ‘declining competitiveness’ against cheap Asian-made tyres, growing inflation, and high energy costs as reasons for the shutdown.

05.11.2024
france , cars

Air taxis in Dubai to be launched in 2026

Khaled Al Awadhi, the Director of the Transportation Systems Department at the Roads and Transport Authority, said that air taxis in Dubai will be launched by Q1 2026, RIA Novosti reports Photo: www.freepik.com Khaled Al Awadhi noted that there is a plan to launch an air taxi service by the first quarter of 2026. Work is currently underway on testing and certification of vehicles together with the American company Joby Aviation. According to the official, it is planned to build four vertical ...

03.10.2024
dubai , taxi , cars

BMW ramps up autonomous driving technology development in China

German carmaker BMW Group will accelerate the development of autonomous driving technology with new facilities to be launched later this year at its R&D centre in Shenyang, Xinhua reports Photo: www.chinadaily.com.cn An autonomous driving data processing centre and an autonomous driving test workshop will open in September and December this year. The former will be aimed to help efficiently process autonomous driving test data, while the latter will primarily validate autonomous driving ...

13.09.2024
china , r&d , cars , bmw

President of Indonesia: no gasoline-powered cars in country’s new capital

... will be no gasoline-powered cars in the new capital of ... be used there. Gasoline-powered cars will be banned in the ...

14.08.2024
Indonesia , cars , green energy

China's NEV output, sales registered fast growth in H1

China's production and sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) continued to maintain rapid growth in the first six months (H1) of this year, with the NEV market share steadily increasing in the domestic market, Xinhua reports with reference to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) Photo: www.news.cgtn.com In H1 2024, the production of NEVs reached about 4.93m units, rising 30.1 percent year on year. In turn, the sales of stood at 4.94m units, growing by 32 percent from a year ...

13.08.2024
China , NEV , cars

Car assembly facilities to open in Nigeria

... country plans to start assembling cars on its territory, TASS reports ... Nigeria is capable of producing cars on its own, adding that ... to focus on motorcycles, passenger cars and heavy trucks, and Nigeria ...

11.04.2024
Africa , Nigeria , cars

Deliveries of Iranian Saipa cars to Belarusian and Russian markets to launch soon

... importing Quik, Saina and Shahin cars, have clarified that deliveries will ... batch of about a thousand cars of Quik, Saina, and Shahin ... . It was then announced that cars would cost $13,000-22 ... the assembly of Iranian budget cars in Belarus is also possible ...

08.11.2023
iran , cars , supplies

Belarus’ market of new cars increased by 255% in May 2023

... , the Belarusian market of new cars showed a significant increase – growing ... May, sales made 1,649 cars, and an explosive growth in ... Belarusian-Chinese Geely brand – which cars are assembled in Belarus – enjoyed ...

13.06.2023
cars , market , Belarus

Chinese electric car market to set new records in 2023

This year, Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles will strengthen their positions in domestic and foreign markets, with total sales expected to grow by 35 percent year-on-year, The Financial Times reports PHOTO: WWW.REUTERS.COM It is noted that there should be the largest volume of sales of electric vehicles in China in 2023. According to Neil Beveridge, an analyst at Sanford C.Bernstein & Co, every 7 out of 10 electric vehicles are sold in China these days. According to the expert, by ...

02.02.2023
china , electric transport , cars

New car sales in EU dropped to lowest level in 30 years

... 2022, sales of new passenger cars in the European Union decreased ... market] amounted to 9.3m cars, which was the lowest figure ... 2021, total sales of new cars in the European Union decreased ...

24.01.2023
cars , sales , EU

Vietnam imported record number of cars in 2022

Record number of cars were imported in Vietnam last ... Vietnam, more than 173,000 cars were imported into the country ... can now afford premium segment cars in the country. As a ...

17.01.2023
vietnam , imports , cars

New car sales fell to lowest level in 45 years in Japan

... 2022, about 2.5m passenger cars and 1.64m mini-vehicles ...

12.01.2023
japan , cars

Lukashenko believes Belarusians will respond to increased price for popular car brand

... , prices for Geely Atlas Pro cars start from Br87,400 – or ...

30.05.2022
lukashenko , prices , cars

By late 2022, the share of Chinese car sales to exceed 20% in Belarus

... believes a statement that Chinese cars will flood the Belarusian market ...

21.03.2022
cars , varidova , opinion

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