The choice is revealing, less for the architecture's novelty than for what it signals about Ford's read on the European market. GEA was designed from the outset to absorb ambiguity in powertrain ...

The robotics division has secured more than $900m in a recent investment round. The capital is intended to flow primarily into development, production facilities and commercialisation The Chinese ...

With each new vehicle generation, the complexity of automotive production continues to increase. Platform strategies, a growing number of derivatives and shorter development cycles mean that ...

From costly model changeovers to Tesla's battery lines and Framework's swappable laptops, Industrial Automation & Control Systems Designer, Riddhi Padariya, argues that true modularity means designing ...

The showdown expected at Volkswagen’s supervisory board never materialised. After weeks of dispute, the board unanimously approved large parts of the group’s Future Plan 2030 on Thursday evening, ...

Volvo is bringing Ghent plant manager Magnus Nilsson into the group management. As the new head of production, he is taking over a manufacturing network that could face some significant changes in the ...

From costly model changeovers to Tesla's battery lines and Framework's swappable laptops, Industrial Automation & Control Systems Designer, Riddhi Padariya, argues that true modularity means designing ...

A future beyond vehicle production is taking shape for Volkswagen’s Osnabrück plant. The state of Lower Saxony and Israeli investor Aurelius Capital are looking to take over the site and transform it ...

Euro 7 is raising the bar for particulate emissions testing. Jan Bosse, Global Product Manager for Microbalances at Mettler Toledo, explains how precision weighing and robust laboratory practices help ...

Volkswagen could spend up to €16bn ($18.6bn) on job cuts and potential plant closures as it tackles around 500,000 units of excess capacity across its European manufacturing network. The Volkswagen ...

The Volkswagen Group wants to cut a further 50,000 jobs in the coming years, reduce the number of its models and hold fewer company shareholdings. Four plants remain on the brink. Automotive ...