Tag: Auto

Kia Carens Wins Indian Car Of The Year Award
The Kia Carens has been crowned as the Indian Car of the Year (ICOTY) 2023 and the Kia EV6 won the Green Car Award 2023 by ICOTY. A statement sent to City Business News explained that with this, Kia...

FRSC To Sanction Fleet Operators Over Safety Standards’ Violation
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has warned fleet operators against contravening road transport safety standard. The FRSC Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, who gave the warning at the opening of the 2022 Annual Safety Managers Retreat on Thursday...

Coscharis Motors Woos Ford Customers With Black Friday Deals
Frontline Nigerian automobile dealership and sole authorized dealer of Ford vehicles in Nigeria, Coscharis Motors has launched a promo aimed at tickling her existing Ford customers and getting them excited this black Friday season. City Business News report...

Hyundai breaks Ground On $5.5b EV, Battery Plant
Hyundai Motor Company broke ground on a $5.54 billion Electric Vehicle (EV) and battery plant in the United States. According to Reuters, the investment is the largest in the state’s history and the latest in a string of EV...

Nigeria Partners Israel, Japan On Manufacturing Of Electric Vehicles
The Federal Government of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Israeli and Japanese companies to commence assembling and manufacturing environmentally friendly, green, electric and smart automobiles by 2023. The National Agency for Scie...

Toyota Suspends Operations At Sichuan Plant
Toyota Motor Corp has suspended operations at its plant in China’s Sichuan province after local authorities issued an order to conserve electricity. Toyota’s joint venture plant in the city of Chengdu has ceased operations until Saturday, a company spokesp...

BMW Starts Production At New $2.2b Plant
BMW has commenced production at a new plant in China with an investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.24 billion) as the carmaker accelerates electric vehicle (EV) production. The Lydia plant, BMW’s third car assembly facility in China, located in the...

New Range Rover Sport Debuts
Sensational New Range Rover Sport has made its global premiere with a dramatic world-first climb up a flooded dam spillway in Iceland. New Range Rover Sport is based on Land Rover’s advanced, flexible Modular Longitudinal Architecture (MLA-Flex), which...

Lagos Motor Fair Begins May 30
By citybusinessnews@yahoo.com The 16th annual Lagos Motor Fair & Autoparts Expo Africa is to hold from May 30-June 4, 2022 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos State. According t...

GAC Motor Lauds Nigerian Deal, Reviews Q1 Performance
By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com The headquarters of GAC Motor in Guangzhou, China, on Monday described its performance in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022 as impresive. Within the period, according to GAC Motor, the brand “c...

Over 200 Innoson-BOSCH Trainees Graduates
All is now set for the over 200 students who were Inducted into the BOSCH- Innoson Kiara Academy (IKA) training programme in automobile maintenance to graduate on Friday, April 29th, 2022, The training was inaug...

Nissan Plans ‘Game Changing’ Electric Car Batteries
Nissan is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on a new type of battery for electric vehicles that promises to charge quicker and be lighter yet safe, the Japanese automaker said Friday. The all-solid-state battery will replace...