The Digital Product Passport is intended to ensure transparency, sustainability and quality throughout the entire vehicle ...

HORSE, the Renault-Geely joint venture, is harnessing digital twins at its Valladolid plant to transform powertrain production, boost flexibility in EV output, reduce emissions and embed data-driven ...

Ford is cutting jobs at its Cologne factory and will move production there to a one shift operation in January next year. Volkswagen, which is in the process of permanently cutting more than 700,000 ...

Volkswagen announces a significant restructuring of its German manufacturing operations, including 35,000 job cuts by 2030 and the relocation of Golf production to Mexico. The plan aims to reduce ...

The Chinese battery manufacturer’s new European general manager, Marcel Brömlage, will lead an evolving strategy in the region including increasing engineering and acquisition capabilities, and ...

For years, humanoid robots have existed in the imagination of automotive engineers as a distant promise, compelling in theory but frustratingly elusive in practice. BMW Group has now made a decisive ...

The JV will produce materials from 2025 to make cathodes, a component which accounts for roughly half the cost of a battery cell. Volkswagen’s recently-created batteries division, PowerCo, and Belgian ...

Data compiled by McKinsey shows that back in 2019, Japan was the biggest global vehicle exporter, with 4.8m units exported. At this point China exported only around 700,000 vehicles. Fast forward to ...

AI and automation are becoming key technologies for surface inspection in the paintshop, but human workers are still providing the finishing touches. Report by Michael Nash. Progress in the automotive ...

BMW’s dingolfing plant pioneers automated in-plant driving, achieving CE certification and setting a benchmark for efficiency in automotive production. Expansion across its global network is underway.

One of the key pillars of Volvo’s investment in electric vehicles will be the application of aluminium megacasting to produce large structural parts. Mikael Fermér, solution architect for vehicle ...

Electric Dreams: Tesla’s gigafactory network and EV battery production blueprint From Fremont to Berlin, Tesla’s gigafactories are the drivers in its goal to lead the EV market. Each site plays a ...