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EV news and analysis – Page 33
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ArticleBetter logistics help propel Nissan Sunderland
Logistics costs in automotive are now often more expensive than manufacturing vehicles within a plant, according to Nissan Europe’s purchasing and manufacturing boss. As a result, the company’s efforts in recent years to reduce those costs have been important to the success of the carmaker’s plant in Sunderland, in the ...
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ArticleSaab production restarts in Sweden
Saab production has restarted at the Trollhättan plant in Sweden after two and half years, following its closure when the previous company went bankrupt in 2011. The plant is now being run by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which took over Saab in August last year. And NEVS has had ...
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ArticleRussia removes duties for EV imports
The Eurasian Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the governing body of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), has said it is ready to approve the complete removal of the 19% import duty levied on electric cars imported to the country so as to stimulate sales.According to ECE’s minister of ...
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ArticleRenault-Nissan and Mitsubishi will export sedan from South Korea
As part of a new wide-ranging agreement between the Renault Nissan Alliance and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, which will involve shared products, technology and manufacturing capacity, the companies will export a D-segment sedan model from the Renault Samsung Motors (RMC) plant in Busan, South Korea for sale in the US and ...
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ArticleNissan strikes a new Note in Sunderland
Nissan has begun production of the new Note model at its Sunderland plant in the UK.The compact MPV is set to further boost revenues in Sunderland following an investment of £125m ($200m) by Nissan. These funds were secured with a £9.3m grant from the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund. The ...
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ArticleTo Sunderland… and Infiniti!
Nissan’s luxury vehicle division Infiniti will be making vehicles for the European market at the parent company’s plant in Sunderland, UK from 2015 and there are reported to be some unique considerations for logistics according to the company.It is the first time Infiniti has made vehicles in Europe and it ...
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ArticleDHL revamps the aftermarket
DHL announced this week that it was overhauling its service for automotive spare parts delivery by adopting just-in-time delivery methods more usually associated with an inbound assembly service. At a meeting convened at the Renault ZE electric vehicle facility in Paris, France on Tuesday, the logistics provider ...
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ArticleMicra production in France will mean logistics savings
Renault-Nissan has announced it will produce the next generation Nissan Micra at its Renault Flins plant in France. Production will begin in 2016 with an estimated annual output of 82,000 vehicles. The vehicle is currently produced at the Renault Nissan Alliance plant in Orangadam, near Chennai, in southern India. ...
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ArticleGlobal round up: Nissan temporary storage; VW exports parts from India to Malaysia; Euro Car Parts and Sator merge; K+N in Vladivostock; Jungheinrich turns 50 in UK;
Nissan solves storage problem at SunderlandNissan is using a temporary storage solution at its Sunderland plant in the UK to house axles being used on Juke and Qashqai vehicles made at the plant, as well as the new generation Leaf electric vehicle, production of which was officially launched at the ...
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ArticleNissan turns over a new Leaf in UK
Nissan launched production of its second generation Leaf electric vehicle at the Sunderland plant in the UK last Thursday, the first time the vehicle has been produced outside of Japan. The company revealed its global and regional sourcing strategy for the plant, including import of key electronic components from ...
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ArticleMurano move unconfirmed says Nissan
Nissan said this week that reports it was moving the Murano crossover from Japan to the US in 2014 were purely speculative. Reports in the Japanese business press said that the carmaker was planning to start producing the Murano at the Smyrna plant in Tennessee, which already ...
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ArticleMitsubishi stops shipments of i-MiEV to PSA
Mitsubishi Motors has stopped shipments of its i-MiEV electric vehicle to French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën. A spokesman for PSA said that the halt was temporary and put in place to “adjust stocks”. The French carmaker is now believed to have more than 4,400 of the vehicles held in ...
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ArticleGlobal round up
DHL opens parts centre in BrazilDHL Global Forwarding has opened an automotive parts handling centre in São Paulo, Brazil that will process around 2,000 shipments per month for carmakers, commercial vehicle makers and their tier suppliers in the local market.According to the company, the Automotive Competence Center will provide ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Mike Dickinson has taken up a new role as director of Order Management and Logistics at Qoros Auto, the 50:50 joint venture between Chinese carmaker Chery Auto and Israel Corporation.Dickinson moves from his role as supply chain director at GM International Operations (GMIO) and will now be ...
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ArticleNissan increases model line at Sunderland
In a further boost to manufacturing and supply at Nissan's Sunderland plant in the UK, the carmaker has announced it will begin producing a new midsized hatchback model at the plant from 2014, bringing annual output at the plant to more than half a million units, with big demands on ...
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ArticlePSA and Opel rumoured to be in alliance talks
GM and PSA Peugeot-Citroën are reported to be in advanced talks aimed at establishing an alliance in Europe to build cars and components. The agreement, if it comes to pass, could have implications for supply chain and logistics operations. A report in the Financial Times, quoting sources familiar with ...
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ArticleGlobal round up
Horizon saved from bankruptcyHorizon Lines, the US domestic ocean shipping and integrated logistics company, has concluded a comprehensive financial restructuring programme worth $653m to fund ongoing operations and protect the company from bankruptcy. “We now have a new capital structure that eliminates the refinancing uncertainty faced by our company over ...
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ArticleExecutives on the move
Harry Doms has left electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors where he was logistics director of EMEA and APAC to take up a new position outside the automotive industry. Roy Kimber, Tesla's senior logistics manager, has now taken over responsibility for Europe. Doms' departure follows the news earlier in the year ...
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ArticleIn Profile: Evelyn Chiang, Tesla
Evelyn Chiang’s first taste of logistics was when she was 13, virtually penniless, and supporting her family. Today she is the vice president of supply chain and IT at EV-maker Tesla Motors.
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ArticleToyota supply must be local, common and reliable
Toyota has revealed more details about the standardisation of parts and regionalisation of procurement as part of a supply chain overhaul that is being implemented over the next five years. The carmaker is targeting three areas as part of the new strategy designed to limit future disruption to the supply ...