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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ft.com | Azusa Kawakami
When Toyota announced last year it was expanding its battery plant in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Japanese carmaker hailed the $8bn...
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami
NEW YORK -- Toyota Motor will push back the production of electric vehicles in North America to the first half of 2026 amid slowing sales in the key auto market, Nikkei has learned. Toyota previously planned to begin assembling a three-row, electric sport utility vehicle at its plant in Kentucky in 2025, investing $1.3 billion in the facility. It recently told suppliers that the start date will now be delayed by several months.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami |Ryohei Yasoshima
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration's efforts to promote U.S. electric vehicle production took another step forward Friday as a tariff hike on Chinese EVs took effect, but the Rust Belt states these measures are aimed at are still waiting for a windfall.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Ryohei Yasoshima |Azusa Kawakami
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK -- Even after the Biden administration's huge tariff increase on imported Chinese electric vehicles takes effect, some models will remain cheaper than competing American cars, a sign of the deep-set challenges facing Washington's EV policy. The 100% duty on EVs, announced Friday and set to take effect Sept. 27, follows a four-year review prompted by what the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative called unfair trade practices.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami |Nami Matsuura
NEW YORK/SEOUL -- After scrapping its electric-vehicle development tie-up with Honda Motor, General Motors is betting on partnership with Hyundai Motor as Chinese competition and slowing U.S. and European demand force automakers to rethink their plans. The two companies announced a memorandum of understanding Thursday covering EV and software development for both passenger and commercial vehicles, as well as battery materials procurement and hydrogen technology.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Shoya Okinaga |Haruka Kadooka |Azusa Kawakami
TOKYO/NAGOYA, Japan/NEW YORK -- Honda Motor and Nissan Motor are among the Japanese automakers building supply chains for recycled plastic, Nikkei has learned, to make their vehicles greener and comply with expected new European regulations. Plastic is an essential material in automobile production, used in bumpers, interior components and other parts. Under a 2023 proposal by the European Commission, at least 25% of a new vehicle's plastic would have to be recycled.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Yuji Ohira |Azusa Kawakami
TOKYO/NEW YORK -- Nippon Steel is on a mission to build grassroots support for its bid to acquire United States Steel, sending one of its top executives to engage directly with employees on the ground. Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President Takahiro Mori in early June visited a Pittsburgh-area mill of U.S. Steel, where he detailed to workers his company's plans on employment and capital investment following the deal.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami |Takayuki Yao
PLANO, Texas/NAGOYA --Toyota Motor will make all major models in the U.S. available as hybrids by 2030, doubling down on its strength in the vehicles as uncertainty shadows the market for electrics. At a Thursday test-drive event at Toyota's North American headquarters -- the first in years -- half of the 26 models featured were hybrids. Just two were electric vehicles.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami
NEW YORK -- Nissan Motor, Honda Motor and other Japanese auto industry companies have joined forces to develop a digital tracking system for electric-vehicle batteries, anticipating European Union regulations aimed at encouraging recycling and reducing reliance on China. Mazda Motor and parts supplier Denso are also among the seven Japanese companies planning to introduce a "battery passport" by 2027.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Azusa Kawakami
MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Honda Motor announced Wednesday the start of assembly on the first fuel cell passenger vehicle built by an automaker in the U.S.The Japanese automaker showed off the new CR-V e:FCEV crossover sport utility vehicle at a media event at its plant here to mark the manufacturing kickoff. Honda last produced fuel cell vehicles in Japan in 2021 and had not done so in the U.S. before now.
