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Abandoned History: America's 1970s Convertible Controversy, Who's to Blame?

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Automotive safety was newly in the public eye, after Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed arrived in 1965 to skewer the domestic automobile industry. The Detroit automakers were of course against such testing, and claimed, alongside the Automobile Manufacturers Association, that testing both sides of the roof was “unnecessary.”

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

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Sustainable Value Margin—the ratio of Sustainable Value to sales—for each of the evaluated manufacturers. The ratio of sustainable value to sales (sustainable value margin) is calculated in the report so that different companies can be directly compared irrespective of their size. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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12th Five-Year Plan for Chinas auto industry to make new-energy vehicles priority

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The 12 th Five-year Plan for China’s auto industry reportedly will make developing new-energy vehicles the top priority. China is targeting annual new-energy automobile sales of 1 million units by 2015, according to the China Association for Automobile Manufacturers.

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Nidec to form electric traction motor JV with a subsidiary of Guangzhou Automobile Group

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a member of China-based Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Nidec has been expanding and strengthening its automotive motor business ( earlier post ), one of the company’s strategically critical businesses, by setting the business’ target sales amount to 700 billion to one trillion yen (US$6.5 to manufacture automotive traction motors.

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Motor vehicle taxation brings in €440.4B for governments in major European markets

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New data shows that motor vehicles generate more than €440 billion in taxation per year for national governments in the major EU markets plus the UK, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) reports. This just goes to show the sheer scale of the importance of the automobile industry to Europe.

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German auto lobby recommends ending all fossil fuel sales by 2045

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The main lobby group of the German automobile industry has recommended that all fossil fuel sales should be ended in Germany by 2045, but it’s still advocating for less-efficient e-fuels over rapid electrification.

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First driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance developed for Toyota connected cars in Japan

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have jointly developed Japan’s first driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance. The service is scheduled to go on sale on 15 January 2018, while insurance liability is scheduled to commence in April 2018. Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance is a pioneer of telematics automobile insurance in Japan.