PSA Peugeot Citroen stands alone while other small global players are joining in groups that help spread engineering and production costs over higher volumes.
Pent-up demand after six years of declining sales is a structural plus for the industry, but it is up against a population that not only is aging but also is growing slowly.
To reach series production, Schaeffler, Ford and other co-developers must lower the cost of each part, conduct functional safety and environmental testing and document the technology for potential customers.
The competition calls on university students in teams of two to five to develop features that will make cars of 2030 more intelligent and intuitive, and with the potential to revolutionize the automobile industry.
Concerned about losing jobs to lower-cost countries, France has countered with the PFA industry coalition and two main efforts to advance automotive technology: autonomous vehicles and the affordable, high-fuel...
On a daily basis, French deliveries fell 1.5%, but that still is a plus for a market that was off 9.9% after eight months. The CCFA trade group is confident calendar-2013 sales will come within 8% of year-ago.
Renault’s low-cost Dacia subsidiary sales climbed 18.7% through August followed by Jaguar with 18.6%. SEAT, Land Rover, Mercedes, Honda and Kia also saw gains in the period.
The partners will work together on developing car-sharing programs for communities in and outside of France and possibly collaborate on development of a 3-seat EV.
The program was targeted at devising a toolkit that would reduce the time it takes to develop the human-machine interface, which puts controls for everything from the vehicle’s radio to advanced active-safety...