Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base Bars BYD Vehicles as an ‘Unacceptable and Unmitigable’ Risk, Weeks After BYD Opened Its Only Okinawa Dealership
The 18th Wing barred BYD cars, taxis and trucks from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa but hasn’t said what the…
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Japanese-Owned Ohio Supplier Murotech Settles PPP Size Claims for $3 Million
Small business is a slippery label when your parent company sits on the other side...
Honda Is Burying 150-kW Wireless Chargers Under Japanese Highways, and Big Rigs Are the Target
A 20-ton electric delivery truck has to haul its own fuel tank, and that tank...
Honda Wants to Charge Your EV Through the Road, and It’s Squaring Off With Toyota on a Japanese Expressway
Honda has spent five years figuring out how to push electricity through asphalt into a...
Nissan Lost 152,000 Sales in Five Months. China Ate 115,000 of Them.
Nissan's global sales are down 12.1% this fiscal year, and three-quarters of the drop is China. Its forecast now needs…
Today in Automotive History: September 24, 1948 — Honda Is Founded With 1 Million Yen and a Bicycle Engine
Honda was founded on Sept. 24, 1948, with 1 million yen and a bicycle engine. The company born that day…
Nissan Says The Rogue Hybrid Starts At $37,065. Good Luck Finding One That Cheap.
Nissan put numbers on the 2027 Rogue Hybrid this week, and the one it wants...
Today in Automotive History: September 22, 1985 – The Plaza Accord That Moved Japan’s Car Plants to America
On September 22, 1985, five finance ministers walked into New York’s Plaza Hotel and agreed...
Nissan Says It Wants a Million Cars a Year From Japan. It Said That in 2015, Too.
Nissan’s Japanese reorganisation revives a one-million-unit target it first announced in 2015, at the same plant, on the same export…
Nissan Says Business Is Growing — Its Own Spreadsheet Says Sales Just Crashed 16.5%
Nissan put out a press release this week with a headline built for good news:...
Manual Nissan Z Nismo Arrives in Japan: Gearing, GT-R Brakes and Real Costs
The Fairlady Z Nismo went on sale in Japan today with a third pedal, four...
Thailand’s Auto Tax Overhaul: Why Japanese Carmakers Are Fighting Back
When a prime minister flies 5,700 miles to New Zealand and spends part of the...
Hiroshi Okuda’s Real Legacy Isn’t the Prius. It’s Teaching Toyota to Build Where It Sells
Hiroshi Okuda died this week at 93, and most tributes will lead with the Prius....
Japan’s Earthquake Barely Touched Honda’s Closest Factory. A Plant 600 Miles Away Still Can’t Build A Civic
Honda’s factory in Ozu, Kumamoto, sits close enough to the epicenter of Japan’s July 28...
Toyota And Nissan’s Kyushu Plants Just Got Hit By A Killer Earthquake — Again
Toyota builds its most profitable SUVs in a corner of Japan that keeps shaking itself...