French startup BlaBlaCar has launched BlaBlaLines – a new short distance carpooling and daily commute app and service. BlaBlaLines will be phased in gradually and will only be available between a selection of ‘popular’ 50km commuter routes initially. BlaBlaCar co-founder Frédéric Mazzella compared the new service to a subway or bus line with drivers notified [...]

BASF has been named as a 2016 General Motors (GM) Supplier of the Year for the 12th time since 2002. The award winners were chosen by a global team of GM purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and logistics executives. Winners were selected based on performance criteria in product purchasing, indirect purchasing, logistics, customer care and aftersales. [...]

Production of Volvo Cars’ new XC60 mid-size SUV is underway at the company’s Torslanda plant in Sweden. The first customer-bound car, a T5 Inscription AWD in Crystal White, rolled off the production line yesterday (Wednesday 26 April). The new car replaces Volvo’s highly successful original XC60, which in the nine years since its launch became [...]

A new chapter for the Italian based manufacturer Rupes has begun with the official start of construction of a new home of Rupes USA Inc in Colorado. On 7 March members of the US offices for Rupes were on hand in the Colorado Tech Center in Louisville, for the official ground breaking ceremony. Upon its [...]

The US automotive industry has installed a new record of approximately 17,500 industrial robots in 2016. In the last seven years, the operational stock increased by about 52,000 units (2010-2016). These are preliminary results published by the Statistical Department of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). During the same period, the number of jobs in [...]