Audi aims to compete with Tesla Energy through a new ‘Smart Energy Network’

Ever since Tesla launched its own ‘Tesla Energy’ division to address the energy storage and generation side of the electric vehicle revolution, several automakers have launched similar programs. Audi becomes the latest with its ‘Smart Energy Network’. Home Solar Power The program is currently being tested in a pilot project in households located in the… Continue reading Audi aims to compete with Tesla Energy through a new ‘Smart Energy Network’

SEAT accelerates its international offensive, expands strategic operations in Algeria

SEAT President Luca de Meo, SEAT Vice-President for Purchasing Klaus Ziegler, and Mourad Oulmi, the CEO of SOVAC and SOVAC Production, SEAT’s importer and the assembly partner of the Volkswagen Group in Algeria, met with Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and Industry Minister Youcef Yousfi to discuss the future of the automotive industry in Algeria… Continue reading SEAT accelerates its international offensive, expands strategic operations in Algeria

PSA wants to deploy Opel out of Europe

It’s a beginning. While Opel wants to enter twenty new countries in five years, the new property of PSA will start by pushing the fires in Chile and Ukraine, two countries where the mark with the lightning is already present epsilonnesque. Along the Andes Cordillera, “we want to triple or quadruple sales in 2018,” says… Continue reading PSA wants to deploy Opel out of Europe

Number of electric cars California needs to cut 2030 emissions unclear: 4 million or 7 million?

2018 Kia Niro Plug-In Hybrid charging at Crevier BMW, Santa Ana, California, Dec 2017 Enlarge Photo One of California’s largest electricity producers recently published a white paper that analyzed how the state will achieve its 2030 greenhouse-gas targets—and it called into question targets set forth by California regulators. Specifically, Southern California Edison (SCE) said the… Continue reading Number of electric cars California needs to cut 2030 emissions unclear: 4 million or 7 million?

Groupe PSA: Five out of Six Trade Unions Representing 80% of Employees Sign the DAEC Agreement

RUEIL-MALMAISON, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Regulatory News: Groupe PSA’s (Paris:UG) Central Works Committee today issued a favourable opinion on the 2018 DAEC after five out of six trade unions – CFDT, CFE/CGC, CFTC, FO and GSEA – signed the agreement. The outcome illustrates the maturity of labour relations within Groupe PSA and its active commitment to working alongside… Continue reading Groupe PSA: Five out of Six Trade Unions Representing 80% of Employees Sign the DAEC Agreement

Volkswagen launches pre-series stage of next Golf

Together with its suppliers, the Volkswagen brand is making intensive preparations for the next Golf generation1.At the “Golf 8 Supplier Summit” held at the Volkswagen Arena, the Board Member for Procurement Ralf Brandstätter and Karlheinz Hell, Head of the Compact series group, underscored the importance of the new generation for the brand and for the… Continue reading Volkswagen launches pre-series stage of next Golf

Mazda opens engine machining factory in Thailand

Mazda Motor Corporation today announced the opening of a new engine machining factory at its powertrain plant in Thailand’s Chonburi Province, Mazda Powertrain Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, MPMT). Mazda’s Representative Director, President and CEO, Masamichi Kogai, was among the attendees at an opening ceremony held at MPMT today. “Congratulations on the opening of MPMT’s… Continue reading Mazda opens engine machining factory in Thailand

Collective bargaining breaks at PSA: Mulhouse would lose 177 jobs according to the CGT

Following the announcement on January 9 of PSA to want remove 2200 jobs(while hiring 1,300 people), the CGT detailed the entire plan by site. According to the trade union organization, 177 jobs would be cut on the PSA site in Mulhouse. In this conventional disruption process, PSA management gained support from FO, CFTC, CFDT and… Continue reading Collective bargaining breaks at PSA: Mulhouse would lose 177 jobs according to the CGT

PSA releases the first conventional breaks

Pimkie failed, PSA did: the automaker received a green light from a majority of unions for its project of conventional collective breaks, a first since the recent reform of the Labor Code that introduces the device. This Friday the PSA works council is in progress and should not finish until late morning. The unions FO,… Continue reading PSA releases the first conventional breaks

Group layoffs: PSA Metz and Trémery would be affected

The term, the abbreviation, “RCC” (collective conventional break) is now well known to trade union organizations. AT PSA, the syndicate CGT of PSA Valenciennes indicates, Thursday, January 19, 2018 that this new procedure would touch multiple sites group, for a total of 1,300 positions. In Lorraine, two establishments could potentially be affected, Metz and Trémery.… Continue reading Group layoffs: PSA Metz and Trémery would be affected