Among the many exhibits seen at the 2015 Taipei International Automobile Electronics Show (AutoTronics Taipei), a high-profile international automotive-electronic trade show held in Taiwan yearly April 8-11, the one from Andia Automotive Alliance (AAA) attracted ample attention. The integrated vehicle infotainment platform, debuted at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, won envi...

Despite the very low penetration of electric scooters in Taiwan, where some 19 million motorbikes ply on roads, the Taiwanese authorities continue to help and promote the development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry on the island, also encouraging more local operators to invest to transform the transportation-vehicle industry as necessary. Almost as protocol, the Industrial Development Burea...

Not long after representing Hon Hai Group, recognized as the largest EMS (electronics manufacturing services) provider based in Taiwan, to participate in a tactical partnership agreement signing with Chinese partners Tencent Inc. and China Harmony Auto Holding Ltd. to see the three parties jointly announce engagement in connected smart electric vehicle (EV) business, Lin Dong-liang, president of ...

With the recent inauguration of a wholly-owned subsidiary in Taiwan, Volkswagen Group of Germany targets to further boost sales volume of four of its brands on the island, including the eponymous line of cars, Volkswagen commercial vehicles, Audi and Skoda. Ryan Searle, president of Audi Taiwan recently said the company had sold 4,901 new Audis in 2014 to show achievement in steady growth in t...

Driven by increasingly stronger demand in traditional high season (snowy winter in North America and Europe typically sees higher rates of road accidents to fuel demand for auto body parts as fenders and bumpers), several Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex) -listed auto-parts companies reported encouraging results for operation in the first two months. Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese aut...

Embedded navigation shipments will receive a much-needed boost with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.6% between 2016 and 2020 as more and more consumer vehicles are sold with some form of embedded connectivity or smartphone integration systems, according to a recent report by ABI Research. The market intelligence company specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology poi...

Volkswagen Group of Germany, selling 10.14 million vehicles in 2014 to follow Toyota's 10.23 million to rank second globally according to statista.com, recently held a press conference in Taiwan to announce the inauguration of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Volkswagen Taiwan, to be the 28th overseas sales subsidiary directly controlled by the German headquarters. Su Weiming, executive vice presi...

Global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) has been on an uptrend since 2013, during which some 225,000 units were sold, having rocketed sizably from only 6,000 in 2009. Sales of EVs last year continued to rise, with the volume sold in the first three quarters of 2014 increasing 25 percent from the same period of last year or year-on-year (YoY), and the 2014 volume sold will likely reach 300,000 uni...

With an eye on the booming and lucrative used-car market in Taiwan, Taikoo Group, agent of various imported car brands, recently inaugurated a new used-car sales center in Taipei's Neihu District. The approximately 10,000-sq-m center aims to sell more than 2,000 used cars in the first year by offering superior customer service. Taikoo's subsidiaries are agents and distributors of many i...

The Mobile World Congress (MWC), held March 2-5 in Barcelona, Spain, underscored a new focus--telematics--in addition to different cellphone vendors' new top-end models and telecom technologies. Telematics has emerged as one of the most important development trend in global automobile industry. Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company based in the U.K., had al...