First half registrations in 2016 for Europe’s ‘Big 5’ markets showed that overall the market is performing strongly according to JATO Dynamics. The total volume of new registrations in the first six months of the year grew by 8.9% as a result of double-digit growth in Italy and Spain. Both countries posted their best half-year [...]

Nissan Motor Co Ltd’s new Serena, scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late August, will come equipped with the company’s ProPILOT autonomous drive technology. ProPILOT is an autonomous drive technology designed for highway use in single-lane traffic. Nissan is the first Japanese automaker to introduce a combination of steering, accelerator and braking that [...]

The automotive head-up display (HUD) market will exceed 16 million installed units by the end of 2021, with the market anticipated to expand fourfold during the forecast period 2016-2021. The new research from Juniper Research – Automotive HUDs: Innovations, Strategies & Leaders 2016-2021 – found that the market will be driven by increased adoption in [...]

A Chinese joint venture aims to pull the rug from under Tesla’s feet by mass producing electric self-driving cars before 2020. Automotive venture Future Mobility, backed by tech giants Tencent, is aiming to capitalise on a boom in sales of green energy cars in the country. It hopes to manufacture between 250,000 and 400,000 vehicles [...]