International

DENSO signs MoU with Thai ITS Association to ease traffic congestion and reduce CO2 emissions

DENSO signs MoU with Thai ITS Association to ease traffic congestion and reduce CO2 emissions

DENSO Corporation and DENSO International Asia Co. Ltd. (DIAT), a DENSO group company in Thailand, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2014, with Thai Intelligent Transport System (ITS). This collaboration launched in March 2014 and will continue until March 2015. Its goal is to ease traffic congestion through the use of Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2X) communications. In large[Read More…]

HARMAN opens a new office in Turin, Italy

HARMAN opens a new office in Turin, Italy

HARMAN, the premium global audio and infotainment group announced that it has opened a new office in Turin, Italy, on July 2, 2014 that would also serve as a regional sales office. Turin is of particular strategic importance to the company due to HARMAN’s close relationship with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and its leading brands Jeep, Maserati, Ferrari and Fiat.[Read More…]

Maserati approves Continental tires for Ghibli

Maserati approves Continental tires for Ghibli

Maserati has now approved Continental summer tires to be fitted at the factory for the Ghibli as well. Continental will now manufacture the ContiSportContact 5 in eight sizes between 18 and 21 inches for the Maserati Ghibli. To distinguish it from other versions of the premium sports tire, the original equipment models for the Italian sports sedan will feature the additional[Read More…]

Halla Visteon Climate Control’s YH Park Recognized with Global Green Management Excellence Award

YH Park, President and CEO of Halla Visteon Climate Control Corporation (HVCC) received a Bronze Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit at the annual Global Green Management Excellence Award event in Seoul. The event is jointly hosted by the Korean Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The award is considered as the best in sustainable and[Read More…]

BorgWarner Honoured as Best Supplier in the Powertrain Technology

BorgWarner Honoured as Best Supplier in the Powertrain Technology

BorgWarner Turbo Systems received an Automotive Innovations Award 2014 during a ceremony held recently in Frankfurt, Germany. Organised by the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company was honored in the Powertrain Technology category for a variety of turbocharging technologies, including regulated two-stage (R2S) and three-stage (R3S) systems and variable turbine geometry (VTG) turbochargers. “We are very proud[Read More…]

Electric all-wheel drive and torque vectoring: new driving functions for hybrid and electric cars

Electric all-wheel drive and torque vectoring: new driving functions for hybrid and electric cars

It is a fact that electrification reduces fuel consumption in hybrid vehicles and enables electric vehicles to travel with zero emissions. Yet for Dr Rolf Bulander, member of the board of management at Robert Bosch GmbH, there’s more to it than that. “Electromobility is not just a matter of emissions and costs. It’s also a question of dynamics, power and driving[Read More…]

Large contingent of exhibitors from the oil and lubricants sector at Automechanika Frankfurt

Large contingent of exhibitors from the oil and lubricants sector at Automechanika Frankfurt

According to OPEC, world demand for oil will rise daily to 108.5 million barrels (one barrel = 159 litres) by 2035. At present, global oil consumption amounts to 90 million barrels a day. In line with this trend, the number of exhibitors from the oil and lubrication sector has risen significantly and round 100 companies have registered to present their[Read More…]

New FUSO trucks export to Indonesia begins

New FUSO trucks export to Indonesia begins

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), the wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, Stuttgart, Germany along with Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, Japan (MFTBC), a Daimler Company, started shipping DICV-made FUSO trucks to Indonesia, the key strategic market in Asia. With the new range of trucks, the company aims to fuel additional momentum in the market where FUSO has established[Read More…]

Halla Visteon Climate Control to acquire Thermal and Emissions Product Line of Cooper-Standard Automotive

Halla Visteon Climate Control Corporation (HVCC) has agreed to purchase the automotive thermal and emissions product line of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., a subsidiary of Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. in a move that will expand its thermal energy management product portfolio and further diversify its customer base. The cash transaction, valued at $46 million and subject to adjustment and certain regulatory and[Read More…]

Wolfgang Malchow to join Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG

Wolfgang Malchow to join Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG

Effective July 1, 2014, the partners of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG have decided to accept Dr. Wolfgang Malchow (64) as a further limited partner. Since the start of 2012, Malchow, who has a PhD in law, has been a member of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH. Prior to that, he was director of industrial relations and a member of[Read More…]