Delta Electronics Inc., a power electronics and energy management solution provider based in Taiwan with sales, R&D and manufacturing points worldwide, recently announced having tied up with different partners to jointly provide electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions in China. The cooperation project plans to set up 15,000 EV charging poles in Shanghai and Beijing this year, to satisfy demand f...

Driven by increasing new-car sales worldwide, many Taiwanese Original Equipment (OE) auto-parts suppliers reported impressive operational results for the first quarter, with Ta Yih Industrial Co., reportedly the largest OE auto-lamp maker on the island, and Iron Force Industrial Co., Ltd., an air-bag component maker, posted record quarterly earnings in company history. Industry sources say...

Alongside the increasing global new-car sales, which have grown rapidly from some 70 million units in 2007 to some 86 million in 2014, global demand for various automotive electronics has also been increasing markedly, according to Automotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC), based in Lugang, Changhua County, Taiwan and established in 1990 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs together with the Min...

With even erstwhile skeptics now seriously considering the various ominous predictions regarding greenhouse gas emissions' part in global warming and man's role in exacerbating such phenomenon with potentially disastrous consequences as drastic weather and flooding of areas near sea level, and as electric vehicles, with high-profile examples being Tesla and Nissan Leaf, gradually gaining credibil...

Integrated Service Technology Inc. (iST) of Taiwan, according to Linkedin was founded in 1994, based in Hsinchu, Taiwan that is a lab-service company specializing in the development of IC product testing and analysis, failure analysis, debugging, reliability testing and material analysis, recently announced having signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance with DEKRA of Germany, a firm enga...

Thanks to several positive factors, Hotai Motor Co. Ltd., agent in Taiwan of Toyotas and Lexus as well as the continual No. 1 auto vendor in Taiwan by sales volume, saw earnings hit quarterly record in the first quarter. In the first quarter, Hotai registered revenue of NT$43.5 billion (US$1.45 billion), up 15.1 percent from a year earlier or year-on-year (YoY), operating profits of NT$2.9...

With more nations legislating safety regulations regarding the adoption of automotive tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), such market continues to expand, in both the pre- and after-market segments. Proper tire inflation impacts longevity of tires, fuel efficiency, and safe maneuverability of vehicles and even flat tire prevention. TPMS is an electronic system designed to monitor air ...

The Yulon Group of Taiwan, one of the original and now major carmakers on the island that began making cars in 1956 with technological transfer from Willys and then Nissan, recently unveiled its new U6 Turbo Eco Hyper as part of its own Luxgen line, with the crossover being a facelift model but with upgraded fuel efficiency. The U6 Eco, accounting for over 50 percent of Luxgen sales, is expected ...

Likely the result of the unspoken rule in business "keep up or fall behind" in the wake of the demonstration of various new-generation Advanced Driving Assistant Systems (ADAS) at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas in January by international automakers as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Ford etc., Japanese carmakers including Toyota and Nissan have also announced recently to install...

At a recent shareholder meeting, Taiwanese tire maker Cheng Shin Rubber Ind. Co., Ltd. announced that it will soon kick off plant-construction plans in Indonesia and India, as well as decide a capacity-expansion project by the end of this year for its passenger car radial (PCR) tire factory in Chongqing, Sichuan Province of China. Wu Hsuan-miao, vice president of Cheng Shin, said that daily pr...