Valvoline Inc., a leading worldwide supplier of premium branded lubricants and automotive services, today announced the development of Valvoline™ Hybrid Vehicle Full Synthetic motor oil, its first designed to handle the unique demands of the estimated 5 million hybrid vehicles on the road today. With an expected early 2020 launch, Valvoline Hybrid Vehicle Full Synthetic motor oil will meet the latest industry standards and will be sold in 5W-30 and 0W-20 grades, covering most

PPG  today announced that it will implement up to a 10% price increase on its industrial coatings products globally. The change will be effective Jan. 1, 2020, or as permissible by contract, and will apply to all industrial coatings end-use segments. Chancey Hagerty, PPG vice president, global industrial coatings, cited key drivers for the increase, including the need to recoup significant inflation from the past few years and continuing increases among certain cost pools.

PMD Automotive, LLC, headquartered in Pontiac, announces an alliance with Hansen Engine Corporation, headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota, following successful signing of a commercial application, development, and production agreement to bring to market an innovative design of a supercharger, that has multiple patents, which provides better performance while also preserving or improving fuel economy. "PMD Automotive is extremely excited to have been chosen by Hansen Engine Corp

Airgain, Inc., a leading provider of advanced antenna technologies used to enable high performance wireless networking across a broad range of devices and markets, including consumer, enterprise, and automotive, today announced that it has been selected by Didi Chuxing (DiDi), one of the world’s leading mobile transportation platforms, for delivering high performance C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything) connectivity for an autonomous vehicle pilot in Shanghai. Airgain’

HGreg.com, one of the fastest growing automotive groups in North America, completes today its acquisition of the largest Nissan dealership in the eastern U.S. Now known as HGreg Nissan Kendall, the dealership is located at 17305 S Dixie Hwy, in Palmetto Bay, south-east of Kendall. With the important acquisition, HGreg.com expands its portfolio of Nissan dealerships to two in Florida, six continent-wide. Since opening our first location in South Florida in 2010, we’ve been buil

Hyundai Motor Company today announced it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Indonesian government to build its first manufacturing plant in the country. The company's decision to invest in Indonesia will, in particular, support its growth into new ASEAN markets, securing future growth engines to help the business combat slowing demand in the global automotive market. The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant will be located on an 8.35 million-

SAE International announces further efforts in Israel through a partnership with Spotam, a consultancy and research firm in the areas of telematics, location-based services and the Internet of Things. The partnership will provide Israeli automotive and technology industry engineers and business professionals with access to SAE’s mobility knowledge and resources. Through a new series of quarterly Meet-Up events in Israel, SAE and Spotam will convene local industry experts to di

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is a combination of exhibitions & conferences covering important topics in the automotive industry such as automotive electronics, connected car, autonomous driving, EV/HEV/FCV, lightweight and processing technology. As the exhibition has grown rapidly every year, now it welcomes 1,100exhibitors and 40,000 visitorsfrom all over the world! <>

 Magna has agreed to acquire Wipac Czech s.r.o., a premium automotive lighting engineering firm located in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The transaction – Magna’s second lighting acquisition in as many years – is expected to close the week of November 25 and will expand Magna’s engineering capabilities globally. Wipac Czech s.r.o.’s engineering team designs and develops automotive forward lighting, primarily for European exotic and luxury brands. With m

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (Bridgestone) today announced the industry's first at-scale use of recovered carbon black (rCB) in the tire market as part of its long-standing partnership with Delta-Energy Group, LLC, a market leader for material recovery from end-of-life (EOL) tires. The move to at-scale commercialization of D-E Black®, Delta-Energy Group's proprietary rCB product recovered from EOL tires, marks a significant milestone in achieving Bridgestone Group's lo

Veoneer, Inc., the world's largest pure-play company focused on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD), has joined the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) to speed autonomous driving vehicle development. Veoneer joins leading OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and semiconductor companies, such as Arm, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, GM, NVIDIA, NXP, Renesas and Toyota, in their collaborative effort to accelerate the delivery of safe and affordable autonom

KW automotive; the suspension manufacturer, continues to expand its modular KW Competition racing program and already presented its new products at the Professional Motorsport World Expo. KW automotive will also showcase its product range of motorsport shocks at the PRI (Performance Racing Industry Show, Yellow Hall – Booth 4901) from December 12th – December 14th, 2019 in Indianapolis (USA) The new products are the “KW Competition 4A Inline”, “KW Competition 4A

Cooper Tire Europe today launched a wide range of rally tires, providing ultra-high performance and reliability in numerous applications and levels of rally competitions. Developed and manufactured by Cooper Tire Europe, the new range covers applications of asphalt, classic asphalt, gravel and mud and snow (M + S) with the following products: Cooper Discoverer Tarmac DT1, Cooper Discoverer Tarmac DT02, Cooper Rally Classic Tarmac CT01, Cooper Discoverer Gravel DG1, Cooper M + S and

Global Electric Vehicle Market: About this market This electric vehicle market analysis considers sales from multi-speed transmission and single-speed transmission types. Our study also finds the sales of electric vehicle in APAC, Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East and Africa. In 2018, the multi-speed transmission segment had a significant market share, and this trend is expected to continue over the forecast period. Factors such as high adoption

Volkswagen of America today marked the start of construction for its electric vehicle production facility. The Chattanooga site, where production begins in 2022, will be Volkswagen's North American assembly base for electric vehicles. Volkswagen Group of America executives joined Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Germany's ambassador to the U.S., Emily Haber, plant leaders, production employees and community leaders at the plant for the groundbreaking. “This is a