We invite professionals from vehicle manufacturers (oems, car, 2 & 3 wheeler, commercial vehicles, and off highway), suppliers, universities, government & related organisations to take part by submitting a technical paper, or to simply attend. Reports of a German automaker cartel come on the heels of the Volkswagen clean diesel” scandal, which revealed that the company masked the fact that its vehicles emitted pollutants greatly exceeding legal limits through the use of defeat devices.” Minami Tamaki filed several lawsuits against Volkswagen alleging that the company cheated consumers and lied to the government.
Looking at deal count, Germany’s BMW was the most active automaker by a wide margin, with more than 30 disclosed investments since 2012, including 10 so far this year. The largest U.S. automaker by sales plans to move used vehicles into Houston, and expressed confidence it can reduce inventories to 850,000 or fewer vehicles by year end. Ford …