CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers, will host its seventh CLEPA Aftermarket Conference on 25-26 November 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Airport, Brussels. This year’s topics are ‘Future mobility’ and ‘Challenges in the Chinese Aftermarket’ and includes a session entitled How Future Mobility will change our World which will explore future mobility trends, asking [...]

The European project SCelecTRA – Scenarios for the electrification of Transport – has published a final report highlighting a minimum 20% vehicle parc marketshare for electric vehicles by 2030. Selected within the framework of the ERANET-Electromobility+ programme, the project set out to identify public policies promoting the development of electromobility on a European scale (private [...]

Nissan has been named one of the world’s most valuable brands for 2015, according to Interbrand, a world-leading brand consultancy. In the Best Global Brands Study, released by Interbrand, Nissan ranked 49, up from 56 in 2014. Nissan is the fastest-rising automotive brand in this year’s study. ‘Nissan’s rapid ascent in five short years from [...]

Reuters reports that Toyota Motor Corp is aiming to bring to market cars that can autonomously change lanes, merge with traffic, and overtake other vehicles on highways by around 2020. Japan’s biggest automaker said in that car of the future, drivers would be able to turn on and off the auto-pilot mode with a single [...]