Thanks to the rise of autonomous vehicles, many Taiwanese auto parts suppliers have witnessed a flood of contract orders recently. To keep riding the wave and further build up their reputations in the global market, some of them have been expanding their capacity while developing new products to meet customers’ requirements. Among them, Hota Industrial Mfg. Co., Ltd., one of the largest prec...

Allen Ko, chairman of Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd (KYMCO), a Taiwanese company that manufactures motor scooters, motorcycles, and ATVs for worldwide distribution, announced that the company has worked out a total battery solution for electric bikes and will soon launch it in the market. During the Tokyo Motorcycle Show held on March 22, KYMCO took the wraps off its new Ionex system, stressing th...

Aiming to take the leading place in the global electric vehicle (EV) industry, Volkswagen (VW), an large-sized international automaker headquartered in Germany, has signed a contract with overseas battery suppliers to ramp up its production of EVs and hybrid cars. On March 13, VW made an announcement that by 2025, the firm will set up at least 16 EV manufacturing bases in Europe, China, and t...

Tesla, the world-known electric vehicle (EV) maker, has added pressure to the already limited supply of neodymium since the firm turned to a magnetic motor using the said rare earth in its Model 3 long-range EV. To further reduce the volume of petroleum cars and carbon emission, ever more countries around the world have increased their demands for lithium and cobalt, the key elements for the p...

With governments around the world scheduling to replace petroleum vehicles with electric vehicles (EV), global sales of EVs are estimated to post an annual compound growth of 35.8 percent in the coming years, to trigger considerable demands for lithium batteries and related materials, reported Frost & Sullivan, an international well-known consulting firm. The firm said that prices of lithium ...

Benefiting from the electric vehicle (EV) trend, Hota Industrial Mfg. Co., Ltd., one of the largest precision auto transmission component makers by size in the global market, has witnessed a flood of contract orders for reduction gearboxes for use in EVs. With the new orders, Hota is very likely to see a rosy future in the coming years. For the first two months of 2018, Hota reported consolida...

Located in central Taiwan, Taiwan Ignition System Co. is an ISO 9001:2008-certified developer and manufacturer of ignition parts including ignition modules, ignition coils, crank angle sensors, etc. To secure sustainable in the global market, Taiwan Ignition System takes advantage of its strong R&D capability to work out innovative with fine quality. As part of its effort on ensuring custo...

To provide a total solution of high precision positioning for autonomous cars and virtual reality (VR), u-blox, a Swiss company that creates wireless semiconductors and modules for consumer, automotive and industrial markets, has launched its latest high precision positioning technology platform, u-blox F9. The new tech-platform features multiple advanced positioning systems, namely, Global Na...

On the fast-growing trends of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), smart driving and high frequency transmission, Hu Lane Associate Inc., a Taiwanese supplier of metal stamped terminal products, is very likely to chalk up a double-digit growth in revenue this year, according to Chang Tzu-hsiung, chairman of Hu Lane. Despite facing the pressure of the appreciation of New Taiwan Dollar against the green...

The Taiwan-based Argosy Research Inc., a company principally engaged in the manufacture, design and maintenance of computer peripheral products and components, has seen the pay-off of its R&D for connectors for automotive application in the form of considerable orders received from globally known automakers, and planned to launch more new products in the near future. Argosy claimed that it has...