These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
Citing a Green Car Report of July 2, 2015, Tesla, the Silicon Valley premium electric carmaker, delivered 11,507 Model S luxury electric cars from April 1 through June 30. That is its highest quarterly total thus far, and brings Tesla's global deliveries for the first half of 2015 to 21,537 cars. Such eye-catching sales by Tesla Motors Inc. and the firm's announcements to venture into the Chin...
Market rumors being reported in media say that MediaTek Inc. of Taiwan, recognized as the largest cellphone chipset supplier in Asia, may merge leading graphic IC design company Nvidia Corp. of the U.S. to jointly tap the lucrative automotive application market, on which MeidaTek has declined to comment. Some institutional investors say that the telematics infrastructure makes essential the AP...
Changs Ascending Enterprise Co., Ltd. (CAEC), a supplier of lithium-iron phosphate oxide (LiFexMyPOz) cathode materials, and a Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)-listed firm, recently claimed that it will copy its successful Japanese market business model to new markets this year, including Europe, the U.S. and China, according to company president Chang Chun-yu. CAEC tapped into the Japanese market...
Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd. of Taiwan, recognized as the world's largest maker of aftermarket (AM) plastic body-parts and a major original equipment (OE) supplier to international automakers, is scheduled to inaugurate a new plastic-parts electro-plating line in Taiwan late this year. Once the new line starts up, says Crispin Wu, Tong Yang's president, the firm's operation in the second hal...
Aleees Eco Ark Co., Ltd. of Taiwan, a company dedicated to developing LFP-NCO (Lithium- Ferrous-Phosphate Nano Co-crystalline Olivine) batteries and electric vehicles (EVs), recently said it is scheduled to launch a pure electric bus model with parallel power supply module (supporting both plug-in charging and battery-swapping systems) by the end of this year. J.W. Wu, president of Aleees,...
Yulon Group of Taiwan, the original carmaker in Taiwan that began life as machinery maker and then automobile maker via partnership with Nissan, recently announced its two Chinese affiliates, including Dongfeng Yulon Motor Co., Ltd. and South East (Fujian) Motor Co., Ltd. (SEM), will launch alternative-energy cars in 2016 and 2018, respectively, in the world's biggest automobile market by sales v...
A total of 34,478 new cars were sold in Taiwan during May, down 6.1 percent year-on-year (YoY) and a minor 0.5 percent month-on-month (MoM) drop, according to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC). Industry experts attribute such drops to May being the month when taxes are filed and paid, hence leaving consumers busy with the annual task and the perceptio...
The global automotive landscape and industry continue to change structurally and rapidly, with Google already road testing its driverless car, Tesla mass producing an upmarket electric sports car that would have been inconceivable just a decade ago, top-end brands as Benz and BWM offering hybrids and fully-electric sedans, and a Bloomberg report of August 2014 saying that the Chinese central gove...
After years of stagnation, demand for electric vehicles (EVs) has been rising fast as more drivers embrace the environment-friendly vehicles. With more than 133,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs)) sold in 2014, North America is currently the world's strongest market for these vehicles. While regional sale...
ulon Group, a major automobile manufacturing conglomerate in Taiwan, recently claimed that the group's companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taimex) are expected to together generate profits of about NT$13 billion (US$433.33 million) this year, according to Yulon's president Yao Chen-hsiang. The three Taimex-listed companies include group flagship firm Yulon Motor Co. (an automobi...
