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McLaren to build new wind tunnel

The team, who last won a race in 2012, have been using the Toyota facility in Cologne, Germany, for most of the past decade.Construction of the facility, replacing an old one, will take about two years and will be shared with the automotive side of the company and other motorsport projects.McLaren enjoyed their best qualifying session since 2016 at the French Grand Prix on Saturday.

India asks scooter, bike makers to draw up plan for EVs

NEW DELHI, June 22 (Reuters) – India's federal think-tank has asked scooter and motorbike manufacturers to draw up a plan to switch to electric vehicles, days after they publicly opposed the government's proposals saying they would disrupt the sector, two sources told Reuters.
Niti Aayog officials met with executives from companies including Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp and TVS late on Friday, giving them two weeks to come up with the plan, according to one of the executives.
The think-tank, which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and plays a key role in policymaking, had recommended that only electric models of scooters and motorbikes with engine capacity of more than 150cc must be sold from 2025, sources have told Reuters.
Automakers opposed the proposal and warned that a sudden transition, at a time when auto sales have slumped to a two-decade low, would cause market disruption and job losses.
India is one of the world’s largest two wheeler markets with sales of more..

Ford to offer its factories in Russia for sale

MOSCOW, June 21. /TASS/. Ford carmaker will offer its closing plants in the Russian cities of Vsevolozhsk and Naberezhnye Chelny for sale, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told reporters.
“Ford has fully repaid the loan to Vnesheconombank in Naberezhnye Chelny and Vsevolozhsk, so as of today those Ford plants will be sold in compliance with the existing procedure through bidding,” the minister said.
Manturov did not elaborate on possible bidders.
In late March, Ford Sollers, a joint venture of the US automaker Ford and Russia’s Sollers, announced that it would cease production of passenger cars in Russia by the end of June 2019.
The production at the site in Naberezhnye Chelny, where Ford Fiesta and Ford Ecosport were manufactured, and the production of engines in Elabuga ended on June 3. The production at the plant in Vsevolozhsk were Ford Focus and Ford Mondeo were produced came to an end on June 20.
Ford and Sollers will create a renewed joint venture on the basis of the p..

French car maker PSA Group opens production plant in Morocco

RABAT, June 20 (Xinhua) — The French car manufacturer PSA Group inaugurated on Thursday a production plant near Morocco's northern coastal city of Kenitra, the Moroccan government said.
“This is the first PSA industrial complex in Morocco and is based on the creation of a complete automotive ecosystem,” Jean-Christophe Quemard, vice president of PSA for the Middle East and North Africa region, told reporters.
With an investment of 560 million euros (632 million U.S. dollars), this plant plans to produce 200,000 car engines and 100,000 cars per year by 2020, he said.
The group expects that 90 percent of the plant's products will be exported, especially to the rest of Africa and the Middle East.
This is Morocco's third automobile production plant. French Renault operates a plant in Casablanca, which manufactures 80,000 cars annually, and another site in the northern city of Tangier which has an annual production of 340,000 cars.

Renault and Nissan end standoff over post-Ghosn governance

Renault announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with its partner Nissan on the Japanese carmaker’s governance overhaul, paving the way for the French company to back changes decided in the wake of the Carlos Ghosn scandal.The company’s chairman Jean-Dominique Senard will sit on Nissan’s new appointments committee, and CEO Thierry Bollore will sit on the audit committee.Since then Nissan has accused Renault of having too much weight in the alliance, and of keeping it in the dark over its tie-up plans with Fiat Chrysler (FCA).

Renault and Nissan partner with Waymo to develop self-driving services

The Renault-Nissan alliance has signed an exclusive deal with Google’s sister company Waymo to develop self-driving services in France and Japan.The tie-up between the car-makers and the autonomous vehicles company will focus on “all aspects” of driverless mobility services for moving people and goods.The deal does not currently extend to working together to build autonomous vehicles – unlike Waymo’s previous tie-ups with Jaguar Land Rover and Chrysler.

Aston Martin’s CEO says the company can’t reach all of its potential customers without hiring and promoting women in a meaningful way, but the company still has a long way to go in promoting gender parity

When Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer arrived at the luxury automaker in 2014, he felt its female employees were being held back from reaching their full potential.To build cars that would appeal to female customers, Palmer realised the company would have to integrate female employees in a meaningful way.And just 9.4% of the employees who ranked among the top 25% in pay were women in April 2018, down from 14.8% in April 2017.