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Cambridge GaN Devices develops 650-V gallium nitride integrated circuit for automotive inverters

Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) said it has developed a 650-volts gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit (IC) for automotive applications aimed at improving inverter efficiency in electric vehicles. The company said its ICeGaN technology is intended to enable smaller and lighter inverters, which can help extend EV range as automakers seek to shift consumer demand away from internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains and toward EVs. CGD said using GaN ICs in parallel in powertrai...

KPIT collaborates with Basemark to develop multiscreen automotive HMI solutions

Basemark has entered into a strategic collaboration with KPIT Technologies to accelerate the development and large-scale rollout of next-generation multiscreen human-machine interface (HMI) systems for automotive original equipment manufacturers. KPIT has joined Basemark's Rocksolid ecosystem as its first certified partner, a step intended to help automakers move more quickly to production-grade HMI programs while meeting automotive requirements for safety, reliability and performance. B...

Samsung SDI signs large-scale battery supply contract with Volkswagen

Samsung SDI is preparing to supply Volkswagen Group with its standardized electric vehicle batteries, expanding its presence in Europe’s fast-evolving EV supply chain. The South Korean battery-maker is modifying production lines at its Göd plant in Hungary to manufacture Volkswagen’s Unified Cell, a prismatic battery format designed for use across multiple brands and models. Equipment installation is already underway, with mass production expected to begin in 2027, according to industry ...

Valeo and Zuken form strategic partnership for AI-assisted electronic design platform

Valeo and Zuken have announced a strategic partnership to create an advanced, open, AI-assisted electronic design platform through their joint "Zuken Valeo InnoLab" program. The partnership will combine Zuken's AI architecture and cutting-edge AI roadmap with Valeo's "AI Agents" and industrial expertise, with the goal of integrating AI across the entire design flow. The collaboration aims to significantly reduce design times and ensure robustness in electronic design by establishing an ecosystem...

Nippon Shokubai adds IONEL electrolyte facilities at Himeji complex

Nippon Shokubai is increasing production of its IONEL lithium-ion battery electrolyte in Japan as it seeks to strengthen its position in the electric vehicle and energy storage supply chain amid rising demand for advanced battery materials. The Japanese specialty chemicals company is expanding output at its Himeji complex, where new facilities are intended to serve both domestic and overseas cell manufacturers. The move signals the company’s growing focus on battery materials as part of a b...

Hyundai completes Australia’s first standards-compliant V2G discharge

Hyundai Motor Company Australia said it has carried out Australia’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) discharge using the latest international standard for bidirectional charging, marking a step forward in the local rollout of standards-based V2G technology. The demonstration involved a Hyundai Ioniq 9 connected to a StarCharge Halo 7.4-kilowatt bidirectional direct current (DC) charger. Hyundai said the test used ISO 15118-20, the newest international standard governing two-way energy transfer b...

NAN GreenMet and Silox set up battery recycling JV in India

NAN GreenMet and Belgium-based Silox Group have formed a 50/50 joint venture to build a lithium-ion battery recycling and critical minerals recovery facility in Andhra Pradesh, India, as India looks to strengthen its domestic supply of key battery materials. The new company, N.A.N. Silox GreenMet Pvt. Ltd., was announced on June 18 and will focus on processing spent batteries to recover materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese, which are essential for electric vehicles and ener...

Japan considers automaker take-back mandate for spent EV batteries

Japan is considering making automakers legally responsible for taking back spent electric vehicle batteries as forecasts show discarded packs could reach about 400,000 by fiscal 2040, Nikkei Asia reported. The Environment Ministry and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry prepared a joint report setting out policy choices and a schedule for creating an official recycling system, with a working group expected to meet soon. The move is aimed at addressing a voluntary arrangement that officia...

China speed and the challenge for Western OEMs: Q&A with eSync Alliance

For much of the past decade, Western carmakers viewed mainland China primarily as a market. Increasingly, they are forced to view it as a source of competitive pressure — and, in some respects, a model for industrial change. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rise of “China Speed”: the ability of mainland Chinese automakers to develop, launch and iterate vehicles at a pace that established American and European manufacturers struggle to match. The difference is not simply one of ...

The Shape of Glass to Come: Q&A with Eastman

For much of the car’s history, glass was treated as little more than transparent shielding: a passive barrier between occupants and the elements. That conception is gradually disappearing. In the age of electric vehicles, automotive glazing is being recast as an active engineering platform — part climate-control system, part acoustic insulator, part structural member and part digital interface. The shift reflects the changing priorities of modern mobility. Electric drivetrains, being quie...

Interior Insight: Nissan Qashqai

The family car was once a blunt instrument. It needed to seat five, swallow a pram and survive supermarket car parks. Style was optional; charm was rare. Yet over the past decade, the family crossover has become the automotive industry’s central product: a machine expected not merely to transport but also to reassure, entertain and flatter. Few vehicles in Europe embody that evolution more fully than the Nissan Qashqai, whose latest interior reflects a broader transformation in automotive desi...

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Supply Chain
14-May-2026

The V-Model, recompiled: Q&A with MAHLE Powertrain

For decades, the automotive industry has relied on the V-model as its preferred blueprint for engineering discipline. Conceived in an era when vehicle systems were largely mechanical and development cycles stretched comfortably over several years, the model offered manufacturers a reassuringly linear logic: requirements flowed downward through design and implementation before climbing back upward through validation and verification. Each stage mirrored another, and every requirement could, in pr...

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M&A
22-Jun-2026

Automotive lighting: High tech, low margins and a market in transition

In the first six months of 2026, two leading tier 1 suppliers announced plans to exit the automotive lighting business. In January, Hyundai Mobis signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with OPmobility to sell its lamp systems business, which produces headlights, taillights and auxiliary vehicle lights. In April, Magna International entered into definitive agreements to sell its global lighting business through two separate transactions. The Canadian supplier agreed to sell its lighting op...

The V-Model learns to loop

The car industry once liked its development models the way it liked its assembly lines: orderly, sequential and reassuringly physical. Requirements went in at one end; validated machines rolled out at the other. The V-Model — its descending left side of specification and design, matched by an ascending right side of integration and testing — fit an age when vehicles were chiefly mechanical products with electronics bolted on later. But today’s cars are increasingly software-defined vehi...

From software-defined to AI-defined: rise of agentic AI in vehicles

The automotive industry is moving beyond the software-defined vehicle — toward the AI-defined vehicle (AIDV) — where software is no longer a mere mechanism for updating features but a foundation for autonomous reasoning, adaptation and execution. While generative AI “thinks” by producing insights, text and recommendations, agentic AI “does” by acting autonomously, making decisions and executing tasks. A major conceptual shift is that agentic AI not only enhances the vehicle but ch...

Hitting the software wall: the limits of consolidation in ADAS and automated driving systems

Hardware consolidation in modern vehicles is no longer the industry's defining challenge, although it remains far from complete. The direction of travel is clear: from dozens of discrete electronic control units (ECUs) toward fewer, more capable compute platforms. Domain-centric solutions, including ADAS domain controllers (ADCs) and cockpit domain controllers (CDCs), have been the dominant intermediate step and are likely to remain the largest part of the industry for at least the next decade. ...

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