AICHI, Japan—Looking to boost sales of its Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, Toyota plans to begin mass producing the second generation of the automobile. The company says the new model must have a lower entry price and greater travel range.
WINDSOR, ONTARIO—A misconfigured data transfer server left sensitive data from big name car makers and their employees wide open to the Internet earlier this month, a security vendor has revealed. The data includes assembly line and factory schematics.
SEOUL—Hyundai Motor Co.’s labor union has warned that the 25 percent automotive tariffs being considered by President Donald Trump could jeopardize 20,000 factory jobs in Alabama.
HUNTSVILLE, AL—Construction of the Toyota-Mazda assembly plant here has been “temporarily suspended” so that researchers can determine if the project will adversely affect the habitat of an endangered fish.
Automotive innovation is driven by environmental, safety and lifestyle requirements. This means manufacturers are putting more electronic content in their vehicles with ever-increasing numbers of electronic control units (ECUs).
It took 40 years, but we now know that hot dogs and apple pie aren't the only things baseball and automakers (and their suppliers) have in common. Another thing is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, which gathers and disseminates critical management information across an entire organization.
Nothing embodied the freedom of the 1960s better than a sports car. Italian automaker Alfa Romeo (AR) understood this, and in 1962 introduced its first four-door compact executive car: the Guilia.