Toyota Motor has amassed a growing after sales and service operation that keeps 150 million of its vehicles on roads around the planet, with the business poised to become the company’s biggest source of profit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/08/companies/toyota-after-service-top/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #electricvehicles
Blocked from the U.S. market, Chinese self-driving technology firms are accelerating their push into Europe, setting up headquarters, striking data deals and road-testing — prompting alarm from local rivals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/07/tech/china-eu-self-driving-expansion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #electricvehicles #china #eu #europe
Talks between Japan's ruling and opposition parties have stalled regarding a proposal to eliminate the provisional gasoline tax surcharge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/01/gas-tax-cut-talks-stalled/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #taxes #gas #cars #electricvehicles #ldp
Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/30/companies/toyota-more-ev-chargers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #electricvehicles #cars #carmakers
More than two years after BYD’s high-profile foray into the Japanese market, the Chinese electric vehicle maker is still struggling to win over drivers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/29/companies/byd-evs-japan-struggle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #cars #carmakers #electricvehicles #byd
Today, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that there are now 201,180 fully public and shared electric vehicle (EV) charging ports. This is 68% more EV charger ports than the number of gasoline nozzles statewide, according to the California Energy Commission. 🤯
https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-09/california-exceeds-200000-electric-vehicle-chargers
Toyota has opened the doors to the first phase of Woven City, its experimental town meant to act as an incubator for technologies from autonomous driving to artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/26/companies/toyota-opens-woven-city/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #wovencity #carmakers #electricvehicles #shizuoka #tech
Honda says it has ended production of the Acura ZDX luxury electric vehicle, developed jointly with U.S. auto giant General Motors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/25/companies/honda-zdx-production-end/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #honda #electricvehicles #carmakers
Vietnamese electric motorbike maker Dat Bike obtained $22 million in fresh funding as it takes on established players such as Honda Motor and Yamaha in one of the world’s fastest-growing two-wheel EV markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/18/tech/vietnam-startup-ev-motorbike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #vietnam #carmakers #electricvehicles
Linktour Automotive’s two new ‘Alumi’ all-electric models are technically motorized quadricycles, meaning they’re exempt from the European Union’s EV import tariffs set in place last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/18/tech/chinese-startup-ev-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #electricvehicles #byd #europe
China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin as symptoms of a vastly oversupplied market emerge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/18/markets/china-auto-industry-tailspin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #electricvehicles #carmakers #china #byd #faw #xiaomi #geely #chinaassociationofautomobilemanufacturers
When Audi executives first saw the Zeekr 001 in 2021 it was a wake-up call for the premium German auto brand — if it wanted to compete with the Chinese, it needed their technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/14/tech/chinese-electric-vehicle-tech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #electricvehicles #cars #carmakers #china #saic #audi #catl #xpeng
At the IAA auto fair in the German city this week, Chinese electric vehicle makers were out in force, highlighting the determination of the country's fast-growing car giants to make inroads into Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/12/tech/europeans-warm-china-electric-cars/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #europe #china #electricvehicles #cars #byd
Electric recreational vehicles promise to make summer road trips vastly cleaner, more convenient and quiet than their gas-guzzling predecessors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/02/tech/road-trips-rv-electric/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #electricvehicles #carmakers #tesla
CEO Elon Musk's pronouncements about expanding Tesla’s robotaxis at a "hyper-exponential rate” contrast the deliberate approach of Alphabet's Waymo ahead of entering new markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/01/tech/tesla-waymo-robotaxi-industry/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tesla #waymo #electricvehicles #tech #carmakers #selfdriving
Overseas automakers have launched a wave of new electric vehicles in Japan, a market where EVs have struggled to gain wider adoption. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/25/companies/foreign-carmakers-electric-vehicles-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #carmakers #electricvehicles #hybrids
Is a fast battery swap (rather than charging) the answer to many electric vehicle drivers' concerns about charging times?
In Chine a EV start up (Nio) working with the world's biggest battery maker (CATL) already have a network of battery swap sites & are looking to expand the technology/service.
Given battery rental has occasional been mooted as a cost-reduction strategy for EVs, coupling it with quick swap stations could be an interesting step for EVs?
#ElectricVehicles #technology
h/t FT
In the rebel-controlled Congolese town of Rubaya, laborers produce 15% of the world's coltan ore, a mineral that is pivotal in the production of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components and gas turbines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/world/congo-cobalt-mine-tech-m23-rebels/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #africa #congo #cobalt #tech #electricvehicles #batteries #mining #africa
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Ford says it's cracked the code on cheap EVs, thanks to more streamlined manufacturing processes and lithium iron phosphate batteries that the company says are more durable, faster charging and more affordable than what it currently uses. There will be more use of automation and robots, but the company declined to specify how this compares to current manufacturing. Ford announced a "family" of low-cost vehicles that will be made in Kentucky, starting with a four-door mid-sized pickup that will arrive in 2027 and will cost $30,000. Here's more from @theverge.
Ford says it's cracked the code on cheap EVs, thanks to more streamlined manufacturing processes and lithium iron phosphate batteries that the company says are more durable, faster charging and more affordable than what it currently uses. There will be more use of automation and robots, but the company declined to specify how this compares to current manufacturing. Ford announced a "family" of low-cost vehicles that will be made in Kentucky, starting with a four-door mid-sized pickup that will arrive in 2027 and will cost $30,000. Here's more from @theverge.