Wei ZhangAutomotive
Tata Motors Stands Firm on €14.40 Offer for Iveco Group
Managing director Girish Wagh ruled out another price hike ahead of the October 26 tender deadline despite shareholder pushback.
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Rajiv MenonLiving
IKEA Revolutionizes Green Logistics with Autonomous Electric Trucks in China
Ikea China has recently introduced electric autonomous trucks into its Shanghai logistics network, following the successful completion of a preliminary 35,000-kilometer trial program. The trial program, initiated in April of 2024, has since evolved into daily…
Wei ZhangAutomotive
CEO Mary Barra Bets General Motors Can Grow Beyond Cars And Trucks
Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond vehicle sales and is incubating ventures from…
Rajiv MenonAutomotive
Waymo And Daimler Are Partnering For Self Driving Trucks
Recently few reports emerged which said that Mercedes was scaling back from developing autonomous driving technology which was quickly buried by the company’s head of digital transformation. Now Alphabet-owned Waymo and Daimler have officially announced a…
Wei ZhangAutomotive
Nvidia Boosts Self-Driving AI Business With Volvo Trucks Deal
Sweden’s AB Volvo is joining forces with Nvidia to develop artificial intelligence used in self-driving trucks, in a boost for the U.S. chipmaker that was ditched by Tesla last year. The agreement announced on Tuesday by Nvidia and Volvo, the world’s…
Wei ZhangAutomotive
Imports of commercial vehicles fell last month in Korea
Sales of imported commercial vehicles plunged 38 percent last month from a year earlier amid slower economic growth, a local automobile association said Tuesday. The number of newly-registered imported commercial vehicles fell to 283 units in December from…
Sarah ChenLogistics
DHL looks to pilot driverless trucks
A driverless car on Indian roads may still be a distant dream, but companies are actively looking at ways to use other autonomous vehicles like tractors, buses, trucks, and even choppers. German logistics giant DHL, for instance, feels driverless trucks can…
Sarah ChenLogistics
DHL leverages IoT to slash trucking time across India by up to 50%
Deutsche Post DHLGroup (DPDHL), the world’s leading mail and logistics company, today announced the launch of DHL SmarTrucking to provide an innovative trucking solution across an extensive line-haul express road network in India. DHL SmarTrucking is the…
Minjun ParkAutomotive
Daimler Trucks on track to record sales of 465,000 units in 2017
Daimler Trucks has increased its worldwide deliveries in the first 11 months of 2017 by 12 percent year on year to 422,500 units, despite the continuation of disparate market conditions. Until the end of November, more trucks were delivered than in the whole…
Sarah ChenAutomotive
Tata Aims to Build on Recent Truck Gains in Thailand
Indian automaker Tata is moving production in Thailand as part of a company reset that aims to increase its Thai sales 83% this fiscal year to roughly 3,000 units. With a 10-year contract up at the Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant in the south of Bangkok,…
Maria SantosAutomotive
Made-in-China truck sales lose ground in Vietnam
Made-in-China trucks which had once dominated the Vietnamese market are facing the slow sales since early 2016. According to the General Department of Customs, import of made-in-China trucks into Vietnam reached a record high of 26,700 units in 2015 worth a…
Aiko TanakaLogistics
Myanmar’s Trunk Roads in Poor Condition
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is urging Myanmar to make big investments in its infrastructure and significant policy changes to help it tap its full economic potential. The ADB recommendations were made in a recent Transport Sector Policy Note. Decades of…
Wei ZhangAutomotive
Daimler Trucks to increase its sales activities in core market Indonesia
Daimler Trucks, the world’s leading truck manufacturer with a strong foothold in Asia, is enhancing its position in commercial vehicles in its core market Indonesia. The Daimler Trucks subsidiary FUSO (Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, MFTBC),…