PSR Analysis: Isuzu has agreed to form a business alliance with Sweden’s Volvo in the Truck field and to acquire Volvo’s UD Trucks subsidiary. The amount of the acquisition depends on the negotiations, but Isuzu sees UD Trucks as a business size of 250 billion yen.
President and Founder, Japan Electrification Research Institute, Ltd.
SUMMARY. The global auto industry is bubbling with changes and dramatic new ideas, but the current declining financial performances of Japanese auto OEMs may force them to drop out of the race temporarily before they can take advantage of the growing demand for autonomous vehicles.
In the August edition of the Economic Trend Report (Green Book), the Korean Ministry of Planning and Finance defined the recent Korean economy this way: “production has increased moderately but exports and investments continue to be sluggish”.
The Tokyo Motor Show was a major event that attracted 2 million people from the 1980s to the 1990s, but in recent years the number of visitors has decreased and the last exhibition in 2017 drew only 770,000 attendees.
インドネシア政府は2月５日にテスラから投資の提案を受け取ったことを明らかにした。同国はＥＶ用バッテリーの生産に欠かせないニッケルの世界最大の産出国である。ＥＶやバッテリー関連の産業を振興するため、テスラに投資を呼び掛けていた。
秘密保持契約があるため、詳細は明らかにできないが、主にバッテリーとエネルギー貯蔵ソリューションについて協議してきたという。インドネシアの次官は「テスラが原材料の購入だけを望むのであれば、われわれとしては関心がない。原材料の調達以上の提案であり、蓄電システムのメガパック、パワーパック、パワーウォールなどにも及んでいる」と述べた。
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