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Retail Asia16/11/2022

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he was working “at the absolute most amount…from morning til night, seven days a week” when asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker Tesla Inc. “I have too much work on my plate that is for sure,” Musk said by videolink to a business […]

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Retail Asia10/11/2022

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Electrification has been one of the key focus areas for Toyota in the global markets. Earlier this year Toyota showcased its all-electric range and now it has released a teaser image of its upcoming hybrid sedan, which is likely to be the successor of the Prius hybrid. In fact, it’s most likely the same mysterious […]

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Retail Asia04/11/2022

Electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc said on Wednesday it would build a battery manufacturing facility at Pryor in Oklahoma with a capacity of 3,200 Megawatt hours production. The company’s Pryor facility will make proprietary battery modules, energy management system and thermal control technology, CEO and Chairman Tony Aquila said. Canoo added it will be the first electric vehicle […]

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Retail Asia03/11/2022

Electric vehicle giant Tesla has closed what had been its flagship showroom in China as the company adjusts its sales and service strategy in its second-largest market, two people with knowledge of the matter said. Tesla shut the showroom in Beijing’s Parkview Green, an upscale downtown shopping centre late last week, according to the people, […]

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Retail Asia03/11/2022

Volvo Cars reported sales of 54,317 cars in October, up 6.9 percent compared with the same month last year. The company’s line-up of Recharge models represented 36.8 percent of the sales last month, with fully electric cars accounting for 15 percent of total sales. During the January-to-October period, Volvo Cars’ retail sales reached 483,304 cars, […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2022

UAE and Saudi Arabia-based startup Invygo has raised $10 million in series A funding led by MEVP as it further develops its long-term car subscription service. The startup, which was founded by Eslam Ahmed Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in 2019 so far has raised $14.3 million. It counts Al Rajhi Partners, Arab Bank, Amana Capital, […]

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Retail Asia31/10/2022

General Motors Co said late on Friday it had temporarily halted paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his takeover of the social media company. The largest U.S. automaker said it was “engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership.” Twitter did not immediately respond to a request […]

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Retail Asia28/10/2022

Tesla Inc is recalling just over 24,000 U.S. 2017-2022 Model 3 vehicles over a seat belt issue. The Austin-based electric vehicle company said the second-row left seat belt buckle and second-row center seat belt anchor may have been incorrectly reassembled during vehicle service. It told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration it had reports of […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2022

Honda Motor Co said on Thursday it would reduce car output by up to 40% at two Japanese plants for the rest of October from its earlier plans, as the company battles with persistent supply chain and logistical problems. Two lines at Honda’s Suzuka plant in western Japan will cut production by about 20% in […]

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Retail Asia26/10/2022

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The Indonesian government seems to be pulling up its socks in a bid to catch up with other markets in the EV space. According to a Reuters report, Indonesia invited Ford Motor Company and Hyundai Motor Company to set up its operational base related to electric vehicles in the Southeast Asian country. The report states […]

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Retail Asia26/10/2022

Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla will not get any approvals for driverless cars in the U.S. (which means that the car wouldn’t need any input from the driver to operate). At the time in 2016 when Tesla had launched the AutoPilot stack, Musk had falsely predicted that permissions would be achieved by 2020 and […]

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Retail Asia21/10/2022

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The world’s top automakers are planning to spend nearly $1.2 trillion through 2030 to develop and produce millions of electric vehicles, along with the batteries and raw materials to support that production, according to a Reuters analysis of public data and projections released by those companies. The EV investment figure, which has not previously been […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2022

Tesla’s quarterly report on Wednesday will likely show whether the Elon Musk-led electric-vehicle maker is facing any weakness in demand that is starting to weigh on the wider auto industry. Decades-high inflation, rising energy bills in Europe and signs of a weakening China market have raised doubts among some analysts about whether Tesla can buck […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2022

VinFast plans to set up headquarters in Germany, France and the Netherlands as it eyes a successful foray into key European markets for its electric cars. But it is unclear when the Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam offices will open. The company is set to open its first flagship store in Germany’s Cologne next month and […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2022

British automaker McLaren opened its first official Vietnamese showroom in HCMC on Thursday. The McLaren HCM reseller, located at the Deutsches Haus building in HCMC’s District 1, is invested and run by S&S Group. With an authorized reseller in Vietnam, McLaren said it would deliver the newest supercars for the Vietnamese elite class. At the […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2022

Tesla sold 83,135 China-made vehicles wholesale in September 2022, smashing its record of monthly sales in China, the China Passenger Car Association reported. The number marks an 8 per cent increase from August 2022 and outpaced more than the 5 per cent month-over-month growth of all wholesale electric vehicle sales in China, according to CPCA […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2022

Hang Xanh Motors Service Joint Stock Company, a major Mercedes-Benz car dealer, reported pre-tax profits of more than VND240 billion (US$10 million) in the first nine months, exceeding its full-year target. Consolidated revenues were up 50 percent year-on-year at VND5.17 trillion. In the third quarter they rose 2.7 times to VND2 trillion ($83.1 million). Haxaco’s […]

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Retail Asia13/10/2022

Auto sales rose by 8.5% in September to 33,463 units as the market slowly recovered amid tightening global spending. September marked a third straight month of increase in sales, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA), which excludes the TC Group (which makes Hyundai cars) and VinFast. It represented a 247% rise year-on-year, admittedly […]

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Retail Asia12/10/2022

Japanese auto giant Nissan has announced its exit from the Russian market. The automaker’s Executive Committee approved the sale of its Russian operations to the state-owned NAMI, the Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute. Nissan had stopped operations in Russia in March this year, following the invasion of Ukraine. It then ceased operations at the […]

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Retail Asia10/10/2022

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TC Motor, a distributor and assembler of South Korean Hyundai vehicles in Vietnam, will start selling the popular Czech Skoda cars next year. Under a deal it signed with Skoda Auto in Hanoi on Oct. 7, TC will start by distributing imported Skoda cars first before assembling them. The two firms plan to build a […]

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