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April 4, 2020 No Responses

Daimler Secures $13b Loan Facility

Daimler has signed an agreement for a 12 billion euro ($13 billion) credit line to increase its financial flexibility in the current coronavirus crisis. The credit line comes in addition to an 11 billion euro revolving credit with a term...

April 3, 2020 No Responses

Hyundai to establish Mobility Global Innovation Centre in Singapore

Foremost South Korean auto firm, Hyundai is to establish Mobility Global Innovation Centre (HMGIC) in Singapore with support from Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The lab is focussing on exploring ideas to revolutionize R&D process, busine...

April 2, 2020 No Responses

Nissan Appoints Cartier As Chairman For Africa, Middle East, India Region

Nissan on Wednesday announced the appointment of Guillaume Cartier as Senior Vice President and Chairman for its Africa, Middle East, and India region (AMI) and Head of the Global Datsun Business Unit, effective from April 1, 2020. In this new...

April 2, 2020 No Responses

Kia Motors Delivers 8,583 Units In March

For the month of March 2020, Kia Motors India on Wednesday announced that the company sold 8,583 units. Last month, the company sold 7,466 units of e Seltos and 1,117 units of Carnival MPV, the company said in a statement....

March 31, 2020 No Responses

Toyota Seeks $9b Credit Line From Two Banks

Toyota Motor Corp. is seeking a 1 trillion yen ($9 billion) line of credit from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and MUFG Bank Ltd as the Coronavirus pandemic is intensifying across the world. Agency reports indicates that although Japan’s biggest automak...

March 29, 2020 No Responses

Daimler Negotiates $11.03b Credit Line

Daimler is in talks with lenders for a credit facility of at least 10 billion euros ($11.03 billion) to help the car company cope with the coronavirus outbreak. According to Bloomberg, an announcement on the final amount could come as...

March 29, 2020 No Responses

Volkswagen: Car Market To Recover In Summer

Volkswagen expects the car market in Germany to recover in the summer after the auto maker was forced to suspend output due to the coronavirus pandemic.. “We assume that Germany will return to normal in the summer,” Juergen Stackmann, management...

March 28, 2020 No Responses

Kia Appoints New President

The South Korean carmaker, Kia Motors Corporation on Friday appointed Ho-sung Song as the President of the organisation. Song who was earlier heading Global Operations Division will now spearhead the advancement of ‘Plan S’, the company’s mid- to long-te...

March 25, 2020 No Responses

Auto Firms To Converts Factories To Make Ventilators

Car firms are answering calls from governments to help make more ventilators and face masks to help out during the coronavirus pandemic. Already, Fiat has commenced converting one of its car plants in China to start making about one million...

March 25, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: Kia Nigeria Deploys Measures To Protect Employees, Customers

The management of Kia Motors Nigeria has joined responsive corporate entities across the country to restrain the spread of COVID-19. Rooted in the practice advised by the World Health Organisation [WHO] and National Center for Disease Control [NCD...

March 24, 2020 No Responses

Covid-19: Toyota Employee Tests Positive

Toyota Motor Corporation has confirmed that one of its employee in his 20’s working as a line worker at the company’s Takaoka plant, based in Aichi prefecture, Japan has been found infected with Covid-19. In a statement, the company explained...

March 24, 2020 No Responses

Suzuki Halts Operations

India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has shut down all its operations including production in Gurugram and Manesar until further notice. In a statement, the company explained that R&D Centre at Rohtak will also remain closed, adding that prod...

March 23, 2020 No Responses

EU Auto Industry Faces Crisis

The effect of the coronavirus on society and the global economy is unprecedented, with grave consequences for the automobile industry. Indeed, most of the members of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) have already announced temporary c...

March 21, 2020 No Responses

Japanese Automakers Close More Plants In Europe

Japanese automakers to temporarily close more vehicle plants in Europe and Asia as the spread of the coronavirus prompts countries to instruct non-essential businesses to suspend operations. A growing number of global automakers have been shuttering plants in ...