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Japan's biggest carmakers have fallen behind dedicated EV makers like Tesla and China's BYD Co. in the push to electrify. (yahoo.com)
TOKYO - Japan's top three automakers said Wednesday that a US port strike has hit their North American production with some resorting to airlifts to keep plants running at full steam. (industryweek.com)
Now, Japan's major automakers say that the prolonged labor dispute is hitting their supply chain as they race to ship parts to North American factories. (industryweek.com)
Last year, Japan's number-three automaker produced about 1.6 million vehicles in North America. (industryweek.com)
A plan for export-driven growth will benefit Japan's biggest export market: cars. (moneymorning.com)
The agreement builds upon technical exchanges that date back years between the world's biggest automaker and one of Japan's smallest, export-dependent Mazda. (autonews.com)
The lawsuit against Toyota, Japan's biggest automaker, was related to steel sheets used in electric vehicle motors and manufactured by Baosteel. (abc4.com)
Toyota, Japan's biggest automaker, has come up with one answer in moving to create a line of worker robots with human-like hands able to perform multiple sophisticated tasks. (blogspot.com)

Even Japan's Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE:TM) and Honda Motor Co (NYSE:HMC) cannot convince Japanese consumers to buy models that are popular in the United States. (foxbusiness.com)
Small sport utility vehicles such as the Toyota RAV4 and Honda's CR-V are seen by Japanese consumers as too big. (foxbusiness.com)
Meanwhile, Honda said it has completed an expansion in Ohio, while Subaru and Toyota are spending big to modernize or enlarge assembly plants here. (autonews.com)
Rival Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, said it was also resorting to airlifts and changing shifts to keep its factories humming, but added that the labour disputes were not having a 'significant impact' on operations so far. (industryweek.com)
NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor expects to produce a record number of vehicles this year, a sign that the Japanese carmaker has overcome the negative impact of COVID-19 and is shooting for an aggressive expansion, Nikkei has learned. (nikkei.com)
The figure surpasses by around 2% the number of units Toyota built in 2019, before the pandemic, and would be the most the storied Japanese automaker has ever made in a single year. (nikkei.com)
Toyota has confirmed it will also participate in infrastructure development in Japan, as well. (thedetroitbureau.com)
About 60% of the orders Toyota has so far received for the Mirai have come from government and corporate fleets in Japan. (thedetroitbureau.com)
Fuji Heavy, for example, cooperated with Toyota in developing and manufacturing the BRZ sporty coupe, which is sold as the Scion FRS in the U.S. Fuji Heavy also gets minicars for the Japan market from Toyota Group minivehicle-manufacturer Daihatsu. (autonews.com)
Toyota Prius, the popular electrical hybrid car, has shown promise, and is the biggest seller so far. (typepad.com)
Over in Japan, Toyota is just beginning to think about considering possible plans to try to come up with some sort of electrification strategy (maybe). (chargedevs.com)
But the BRZ's fraternal twin, the Toyota GR 86 , had a few more weeks in development with President Akio Toyoda rumored to have been pushing for modifications that would help differentiate the two models - much like the automaker did with the similarly related Toyota Supra and BMW Z4. (thetruthaboutcars.com)
Following years of tepid sales and speculation about the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ twins' market viability, word eventually came that neither automaker was willing to cede this niche segment. (thetruthaboutcars.com)
Note that small cars saw their market share dip in 2011 - likely due to the earthquake in Japan which disrupted the supply chain of automakers like Toyota and Honda, who are both major manufacturers of smaller vehicles. (vox.com)
Returning to Japan again, a major turning point for the automotive industry is the joint sales of all models at all stores at Toyota in May 2020. (furuno.com)
The developed unit is now supplied to the Japanese automaker for its new active safety packages, "Toyota Safety Sense C" for compact cars. (just-auto.com)
Toyota Motor Corp. was forced to reduce production in its southern Japan facilities this week due to a magnitude-6.5 quake on Thursday, reported the Wall Street Journal. (strategicsourceror.com)
Toyota, which stands as the biggest automaker in the world, is set to take a considerable financial hit due to production reduction after the earthquake. (strategicsourceror.com)
Toyota Motor Corp. and its partners produced over 4 million vehicles in Japan during 2015. (strategicsourceror.com)

As Tom Randall writes in a recent article in Bloomberg , 2023 was supposed to be the year that the legacy automakers "finally put up a fight for electric cars. (chargedevs.com)
All things considered, 2023 might turn out to be the long-awaited Year of the EV, but it certainly won't be the Year of the Traditional Automakers. (chargedevs.com)
With just three months remaining, 2023 has been less a redemption story for legacy automakers than further evidence of their quagmire," Bloomberg's Tom Randall writes. (chargedevs.com)

The chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, at around 8:30 p.m. Thursday local time that he had just arrived in "amazing" Japan. (yahoo.com)
Tesla lowered prices twice this week in China, fueling concerns of a reignited price war in the world's biggest auto market. (yahoo.com)
If you're thinking about ditching gas for an EV, you've probably considered the biggest name in the industry and the brand that brought electric cars to the masses -- Tesla. (yahoo.com)
I think the big automakers are waiting to see how Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors do with their sports EV's, Although Tesla Motors is coming out with a sedan, the price of $44,000 is bit up there for my money. (typepad.com)
Another oil slick on the Big Three's road to electrification: disagreements with labor over the transition to EVs-a problem that, for better or for worse, union-busting Tesla doesn't have. (chargedevs.com)
The only automaker that could be called a competitor to Tesla on the global market is China's BYD, which, as Bloomberg points out, is the first example of an existing automaker that made the transition from selling fossil cars to profitably selling EVs. (chargedevs.com)

Falling sales, rising incentives and mounting vehicle inventories - is this really the right time for automakers to invest heavily in new U.S. production capacity? (autonews.com)
GM and Ford are delivering electric versions of some of their most popular models, Volkswagen and Mercedes each have a range of new EVs on sale, and every major automaker is investing heavily in new battery plants and other supply chain infrastructure. (chargedevs.com)

AMMAN (Reuters) - Japan extended a $100 million loan to help Jordan's electricity sector reforms as part of Tokyo's support for the kingdom's IMF-guided reforms, officials said on Sunday. (yahoo.com)

The union members are striking against the Big Three automakers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, for a second week, over wages and job security. (worldcrunch.com)
Top automakers like Ford, Honda, General Motors and Volkswagen were caught off guard by the shortage even as automotive demand picked up during the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many of them to hold back production. (dailysabah.com)
General Motors Corp., the largest U.S. automaker, probably has weeks rather than months left before it runs out of cash without federal aid, said Jerome York, an adviser to billionaire Kirk Kerkorian and former GM board member. (blogspot.com)

loss of U.S. market share since 1980 is the surge in investment by Japan's automakers in U.S. factories. (foxbusiness.com)
Why are automakers investing in factories now? (autonews.com)

Automakers like BYD and Geely have quickly gained market share after launching sales of EVs to Japan and Europe. (kfor.com)
Electric vehicle makers including BYD Auto and Geely Group's Zeekr unit began sales this year in Japan and Europe. (wane.com)

China has become the biggest market for electric vehicles after investing billions in subsidies to gain an edge. (kfor.com)
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne has vocally advocated for industry consolidation, insisting that major automakers need to stop wasting billions developing the same products and start working together. (autonews.com)
China's leaders have helped make the country the biggest market for electric vehicles by investing billions of dollars in subsidies to get an early lead in what is seen as a promising industry. (wane.com)

When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets on Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump, Japan's bulging automotive trade surplus will be a sore spot, but the path to balancing auto exports and imports will be no easier than it was in the 1980s. (foxbusiness.com)
Still, Japan remains an export hub for the big Japanese automakers. (foxbusiness.com)
Japan's automakers have more than 90 percent of the Japanese market. (foxbusiness.com)
The Japanese automaker is up almost 5% since the BOJ announcement. (moneymorning.com)
The Japanese automaker expects a big boost as the world recovers from the pandemic. (nikkei.com)
But the big push is likely to come, at least initially, from the Japanese government. (thedetroitbureau.com)
They, and shares of other big Japanese automakers, had tumbled a week ago after news of the fire. (dailysabah.com)
The conventional wisdom used to hold that only Japanese automakers were good at vehicles that got good mileage. (vox.com)

The EU announced Wednesday it will probe government subsidies provided to Chinese automakers that the EU contends keep EV prices artificially low. (kfor.com)

Have a gander at the various lists ranking major global automakers (in terms of annual production or overall revenue) for the past few years, and Mazda is nowhere to be seen. (memeburn.com)
As a result, global automakers, including Japan's, are focused on boosting sales in China, the United States and growing emerging markets. (foxbusiness.com)
The Chinese-owned Swedish automaker is eager to catch up with its premium-class global competitors, most of which have long operated North American assembly plants. (autonews.com)
This is a global challenge, to which different countries can contribute in different ways, and the big picture must be in view. (insideevs.com)
The latest move comes as global automakers increasingly pool resources on expensive green-car development. (autonews.com)
Meanwhile, Simon Sproule, corporate vice president of global communications at Nissan, said that having one or more of the top automakers in severe distress has profound consequences for the whole industry. (insidejapantours.com)
In November, South Korea saw a 22% drop in car sales and Japan an 18% drop, according to Global Insight. (financeasia.com)
NewtonÆs outlook for global car sales does not bode well for AmericaÆs big three as they try to make the case for a bailout. (financeasia.com)
Much of corporate Japan will remain closed this week amid damage assessments from Friday's earthquake and tsunami that will have far reaching consequences for global trade. (thenationalnews.com)
Ever since Tesla's 2003 founding, industry observers (and even the company's own execs) have been predicting that the giant global automakers would respond to the new company's challenge, produce their own compelling EVs, and surpass (or perhaps even acquire) the upstart. (chargedevs.com)
Global automakers face growing competition in their home regions from Chinese brands that are taking market share. (wane.com)

The big challenge is the lack of a hydrogen infrastructure. (thedetroitbureau.com)
The city, developers, ConEd, and automakers are trying to dream up a charging infrastructure that makes such cars appealing to consumers, about 16% of whom say they are willing to buy electric cars in New York. (typepad.com)
Automakers still believe that infrastructure investment should be borne by public funds or highway-related companies. (furuno.com)

Plenty of pundits have posited that the legacy automakers' electric struggles stem from trying to sell EVs while simultaneously trying to protect their investments in gas-burning technology, and BYD provides an object lesson. (chargedevs.com)
Plenty of automakers make off-road vehicles. (euronews.com)

If the OEMs [auto makers] really drop off, that would be a big problem, but that's why they won the ANA bid for seat belts," he said in Tokyo, where he was attending an event organized by the U.S.-Japan Council. (dowjones.com)
In the worst-case scenario, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics may fall into a state of inflection, with all-Japan peaking in automated driving development. (furuno.com)

The pandemic of course also played a roll with many automakers cancelling orders due to slacking demand for vehicles, a decision they are now regretting as the market recovers. (statista.com)

Since January, automakers have announced several major investments in U.S. plants. (autonews.com)

This file photo shows a Renesas Electronics factory building at the company's Naka sector in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, northeastern Japan, June 10, 2011. (dailysabah.com)
In this file photo employees of microprocessor maker Renesas Electronics work at the company's Naka wafer fabrication factory in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, northeastern Japan, June 10, 2011. (dailysabah.com)

Trump may press Abe to do more to level the trade imbalance with Japan during a White House visit or a round of golf, but the two leaders are unlikely to change the fact that the big cars and trucks that America makes do not sell in Japan. (foxbusiness.com)
It would take a painstaking fine-tuning of vehicle specs to suit American cars to those driving and other conditions and develop a strong distribution network to be able to gain traction in Japan. (foxbusiness.com)
Jaguar Land Rover Japan Ltd Chief Executive Magnus Hansson said the low sales of U.S. cars in Japan did not mean it was a closed market, but rather reflected 'a total and absolute lack of effort over 50 years' by Detroit. (foxbusiness.com)
China came from zero production in 1950, to 2019 where it now produces more cars than the USA, Japan, and India collectively. (eurasiareview.com)
In the future, meanwhile, hybrid and "micro-hybrid" technology is expected to deliver even bigger gains - especially since new cars will need to average more than 35 miles per gallon on the road by 2025. (vox.com)
But in the past, automakers would use those advances to build bigger, more powerful cars . (vox.com)
By the way, this isn't just an artifact of the fact that automakers are selling more cars and fewer SUVs and pickups - even the average weight of cars alone has roughly plateaued since around 2005. (vox.com)
With more Americans buying rechargeable cars - and several automakers expanding their hybrid and all-electric offerings - the automotive ind. (strategicsourceror.com)

Amid tougher emissions regulations worldwide, established automakers are racing to add more EVs to their lineup. (eurasiareview.com)

Last year U.S. automakers controlled only 45 percent of their home market, the world's second-biggest after China. (foxbusiness.com)
Real estate prices that are artificially kept high by a collusion between the government and the banking world can only last so long, because it has one big glaring weakness. (blogspot.com)
Though perhaps years away in the United States, this long-awaited, as-seen-on-TV world -- think "The Jetsons" or "Blade Runner" -- is already unfolding in Japan, with robots now used as receptionists, night watchmen, hospital workers, guides, pets and more. (blogspot.com)
In artist renderings, the vehicle looks a bit like a big off-world SUV . (euronews.com)
On the low, GM's market cap had fallen to $1.25 billion, which got me thinking how the one time biggest company in the world announced an investment in Russia this week that costs more than that. (blogspot.com)

And I discovered that Mr. Takahashi headed HERE Japan as someone who had been active in the IT industry at Microsoft at the same time I worked in the industry at Oracle. (response.jp)
In India, the world's biggest asbestos importer, it's a $2 billion industry with double-digit annual growth, at least 100 manufacturing plants and some 300,000 jobs. (mbtmag.com)

A bailout would ôdefinitely boost Chinese consumers' confidence with the big threeö, says JD Power Asia-Pacific automotive research general manager Songlin Mei. (financeasia.com)

Only about 13,000 vehicles from U.S. automakers sold in Japan in both 2016 and 2015, and of that about three-fourths were Jeep SUVs made by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (NYSE:FCAU). (foxbusiness.com)
The U.S. Commerce Department this week reported that the U.S. trade deficit with Japan in 2016 was $68.9 billion, and of that total surplus, some $52.6 billion was in vehicles and automotive parts. (foxbusiness.com)
Auto makers have signaled that they can get by without Takata inflaters in future vehicles by relying on other inflater makers such as Daicel Corp. of Japan and Sweden's Autoliv Inc. (dowjones.com)

The smaller makers in Japan have done extremely well in recent years," Sanger said. (autonews.com)
One of the biggest problems facing car makers in Japan is that they share many of the same parts suppliers as their US counterparts. (insidejapantours.com)

In an analysis he titled "Confessions of a Capital Junkie," Marchionne said automakers could potentially share 40 to 50 percent of vehicle development costs, returning $2.8 billion to $5.1 billion euros of capital every year. (autonews.com)
Japan is a country of more than 127 million people, but it rarely sees more than 10 gun deaths a year. (yahoo.com)
Japan rarely sees so many fatalities from guns in an entire year. (yahoo.com)

Now, half a decade after concluding a relationship with Ford that started as a financial lifeline and finished with the Mazda brand firmly taking a back seat, the once-ailing automaker is finally fighting fit again. (memeburn.com)
If Ford, Nissan and Daimler need to get together on fuel cells, then Mazda's not exactly able to go it alone," said Kurt Sanger, an auto analyst with Deutsche Securities Japan. (autonews.com)

The partnership released a version of the HERE Open Location Platform incorporating GeoTechnologies' map data for the Japan region in 2019, and integrated GeoTechnologies' map database into the HERE Platform in 2021. (response.jp)
South Korea has hosted senior diplomats from China and Japan on Tuesday in a rare meeting aimed at kickstarting trilateral exchanges and ease Beijing's concerns about Seoul and Tokyo's deepening security ties with the U.S. The three countries agreed to revive a long-suspended three-way summit which last took place in 2019. (worldcrunch.com)

But Japan will be stuck in deflation for a while. (moneymorning.com)
By contrast, in Japan, faith is fading that the radical reforms, known as Abenomics, can truly break the country's cycle of debt and deflation. (marxist.com)

LMC Automotive forecaster Jeff Schuster says it makes perfect sense because the U.S. market is mutating - not shrinking - and automakers are spending to capitalize on new products. (autonews.com)
Many factors contributed to the shortage such as a fire at an automotive chip plant in Japan, tighter supply chains after the Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal, as well as a lack of oil for the plastic used in chips due to the big freeze in Texas. (statista.com)
This supply chain problem is reminiscent of a similar scenario in 2011 when a large quake crippled automotive supply chains across Japan. (strategicsourceror.com)

With today's earnings and economic calendars bare and the bond market closed for Columbus Day, traders will look ahead to Wednesday's release of the September Fed meeting minutes, as well as the start of third-quarter earnings season, with several big banks -- including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America -- set to report this week. (schaeffersresearch.com)
With stock markets closed in Japan and South Korea, traders mostly focused on economic data out of China, where trading resumed following a week-long holiday. (schaeffersresearch.com)

In 2012, Japan exported $19.2 billion in integrated circuits, a crucial telecom staple, and $11.1 billion of that, or about 58% of the integrated circuits exports, went to China. (moneymorning.com)
Japan is one of Jordan's main donors, contributing over $4 billion in loans, aid and technical support in recent decades. (yahoo.com)
The big three US automakers have requested a $34 billion bailout from the US government to survive. (financeasia.com)

German automakers' EV production was flat in 2018, a bit over 200k. (insideevs.com)
VW is talking big about near-future EV production, but talk is cheap. (insideevs.com)

Mazda isn't the biggest car manufacturer out there. (memeburn.com)

Then, in 2007, Congress imposed a new round of fuel-economy standards on automakers - the first time those requirements had been tightened since 1984. (vox.com)

Japan has also embraced the idea that fewer guns in circulation will result in fewer deaths. (yahoo.com)

Renesas Electronics Corp. announced Monday that it now believes damage at its chip-making plant in northeast Japan was more extensive than first thought, a company spokesperson said on Monday. (dailysabah.com)

In fact, the Hiroshima-based company is likely not even in the top five in its native Japan. (memeburn.com)
The government has since loosened the law, but the fact Japan enacted gun control from the stance of prohibition is important. (yahoo.com)

I am betting on the big automakers, either US or Japan to take the lions share of the market. (typepad.com)

But Trump, a Republican, has turned up the heat by complaining about the trade surplus and accusing Japan of manipulating the value of the yen to disadvantage American-made goods. (foxbusiness.com)

Japan will be pumping trillions of yen into its economy in the months to come. (moneymorning.com)
Even the US automakers are adapting to the era of higher oil prices, and fuel economy is going up across the board. (vox.com)

Japan will continue our support for Jordan in its economic and financial reforms and further modernization,' Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said in joint remarks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al Safadi at the start of a visit to Jordan. (yahoo.com)

Any money that would go to waste if Congress gives in to the Mullallies of the land could be much better used to provide Big Three employees (but not upper management) with at least some kind of pension and health care plan. (blogspot.com)

Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk has arrived in Japan for his first known visit in nine years. (yahoo.com)
With Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently remarking that the problem could take a couple of years to resolve, there is no light at the end of the tunnel just yet for hard pressed automakers. (statista.com)

JV partners would likely be able to find new partners or transition to manufacturing their own brands, especially in China, in the event of a bankruptcy at one of the big three. (financeasia.com)

Officials compiled a report in January predicting that every household in Japan will own at least one robot by 2015, perhaps sooner. (blogspot.com)

In this installment, Hiroshige Sugihara, President & CEO of GeoTechnologies, and Akihiro Takahashi, President & CEO of HERE Japan, discuss this question to reveal the answer. (response.jp)
Now, with the future of GM and the other big automakers in question, their Asian operations hang in the balance. (financeasia.com)

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