Local tire producer Barez Industrial Group will supply the French carmaker Renault with tires for its vehicles produced/assembled in Iran, the company’s deputy marketing manager said.
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Having just acquired Terrafugia, Lotus, and a sizable stake in Proton, holding company Zhejiang Geely’s international buying spree does not look to be slowing down yet.
Accelerating efforts to make its presence felt in electric cars market, Toyota Motor Corp. has deepened its partnership with Panasonic Corp. over EV battery production.
Safety is top priority and the main concern of car buyers, a survey conducted by Iran Standard and Quality Inspection Company showed.
The survey was conducted on the sidelines of Tehran…
Iran Khodro started assembly lines of the Chinese-derived SUV Haima S5 at a special ceremony held Tuesday at the firm’s subsidiary in the Khorasan region. The production site is located in…
Swiss industrial group Autoneum Holding AG has signed a licensing and production deal with Iran’s Ayegh Khodro Toos (AKT).
Reuters reported the deal on Monday, saying that Autoneum has…
Traffic accidents in Iran kill two and injure five people every hour, says head of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
Communities across the United States are looking to replace their dirty diesel buses, ushering in what some analysts predict will be a boom in electric fleets.
Engineers from Amirkabir University of Technology have designed speed bumps, which harvest solar power and kinetic energy from the passing traffic and produce electric energy. “The bump is a…
A local startup dubbed ‘Gallon’ has been launched offering on-demand automotive services in Tehran.
Instead of visiting a carwash or an auto maintenance shop, Gallon’s team comes to the…
Nissan Motor Co and Japanese gaming software maker DeNA Co say they would begin public tests of their self-driving ride-sharing service in Japan next year.
The two companies join a…
The automotive industry is the second most active industrial sector in Iran after oil and gas. Based on data released by the Ministry of Industries, during the first eight months of the current…
While the global automotive industry is undergoing profound changes, it seems that carmakers and auto policymakers in Iran are stuck in the past, executive vice president of PSA Group for Africa…
Volkswagen said on Friday it had stopped delivering the T6 multivan to dealers after detecting that the diesel model emitted excessive nitrogen oxide levels and had reported the findings to…
BMW AG is targeting another ambitious hike in plug-in hybrid and battery car sales next year to defend its position in the electric-car shift as competitors like Volkswagen AG ready their own…
Uber has had its license suspended in Sheffield after it failed to respond to official requests about its management, the city council has said. The firm, also fighting a ban in London, can…
A deputy road minister has called for cuts in auto import tariffs so that low- and middle-income families would be able to afford safer and better cars.
Ford Motor Co will launch 50 new vehicles in China by 2025, including 15 electrified vehicles, the US firm said at an event in Shanghai on Tuesday, as it looks to rev up sales growth in the…
Germany and Italy are opposing a move to give the EU more supervision over the way national car regulators approve new cars for sale in the bloc, according to EU documents and sources.
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Hungarian bus manufacturer Ikarus and the Iranian City Industries and Mines Development Group (City IMD), affiliated to Shahr Bank (City Bank), have signed a memorandum of understanding to…
Peugeot has agreed to set up a joint venture with Japan’s Nidec Corp. to develop and produce automotive electric traction motors. Peugeot and Nidec’s French subsidiary Nidec Leroy-Somer Holding…
Has Tehran come to a standstill because of the torturous traffic? Do its roads in all four directions, from early morning to late in the night, look like a warzone? Ask the exhausted and…
German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks to buy a stake in Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, a Russian manufacturer of light commercial vehicles, five sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.
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Battery prices need to drop by more than half before electric vehicles will be competitive with cars powered by internal-combustion engines.
That is likely to happen by 2026, when the…
A new guideline on auto imports has been proposed pending government approval, says the director of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran. Mojtaba Khosrotaj says, “The government will make…
