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How the automotive industry is accelerating out of the turn

While the early effects of the COVID-19 crisis presented a dip in the road, car sales and production are roaring back. Trends that have been long in coming point to significant changes ahead.

Renault Group: Third quarter 2021: priority given to value over volume optimized revenues in a context strongly marked by the semiconductor crisis

Commercial results: third quarter highlights

In a context strongly disrupted by the semiconductor crisis and production shutdowns, Renault Group sold 599,027 vehicles in the third quarter of 2021, a decrease of 22.3% compared to 2020.

The Group’s sales in Europe (53% of total sales) were down 26.3%. International sales fell by 17.3%.

The decline in revenues, limited to -13.4%, confirms the positive impact of the Group’s commercial policy oriented towards better value from sales.

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Strong growth momentum, China’s dairy industry has entered a new stage of high-quality development

This year is the first year of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. What is the development trend of the dairy industry involving the national economy and the people’s livelihood after experiencing the test of the new crown pneumonia epidemic last year? At the 4th China Dairy Capital Forum, many industry professionals pointed out that China’s dairy industry has shown rapid growth in the post-epidemic period and has entered a new stage of high-quality development.

The dairy industry is showing rapid growth

Automotive, in 2021 the growth is only apparent and frightens the components crisis

The automotive supply chain is not enough vaccines or green certificates to overcome the pandemic. The appeal launched by the supply chain is an alarm message, there is still no trace of a real recovery. The main problem lies in the componentry crisis that the sector is going through. Finding the parts to produce vehicles is becoming complicated for car manufacturers, especially microchips. Semiconductors are having a hard time, delivery times are getting longer, costs are rising, and sales are plummeting.

Automakers' problems are much worse than we thought

For a year and a half, a lack of computer chips has been plaguing the auto industry, forcing plants to shut down, delaying auto shipments and sending car prices through the roof. But that's not the only problem automakers face.

Nuevos resultados de LHCb sobre la violación de la universalidad leptónica

Seguro que has leído en varios medios que el detector LHCb del LHC (CERN) ha publicado nuevos datos que refuerzan la violación de la universalidad leptónica en desintegraciones de mesones B (o de quarks bottom). Sin embargo, el nuevo artículo de LHCb sobre las desintegraciones B0→ KS0ℓ+ℓ– y B+→K*+ℓ+ℓ– ha obtenido R(KS0) = 0.66 ± 0.23, y R(K*+) = 0.70 ± 0.21, que están a 1.5 y 1.4 sigmas de la predicción del modelo estándar; por tanto, son resultados coherentes con las predicciones. ¿Cómo es posible?

Magna cuts its sales outlook

Magna has revised down its 2021 sales outlook to reflect a deteriorating outlook for light vehicle production in North America and Europe.

The company said it has updated its 2021 outlook to reflect declines in anticipated 2021 light vehicle production, including 7% and 9% in North America and Europe, respectively, in each case relative to expected light vehicle production levels projected in August.

Inflation risk or profit engine? High car prices are both

Early this year, Brian Benstock, a Honda and Acura dealer in New York City, convinced his banker it would be smart to buy more vehicles than he could fit onto his parking lot.

BEVs not for everyone – Toyota

Many people are passionate about climate change, but not everybody should drive a battery electric vehicle as a means to combat it, Toyota Motor chief scientist Gill Pratt told the Reuters Events Automotive Summit.

The news agency noted his comments, during a discussion on electric vehicles, appeared to amplify remarks made over the past year by Toyota president Akio Toyoda.

Italian parts makers fret over size after Stellantis merger

Italian component suppliers see their small average size struggling to adapt to industry changes following the merger of local carmaker Fiat Chrysler with PSA which created Stellantis, a trade lobby group survey has showed.

Reuters noted most of the Italian parts suppliers surveyed by Italian automotive industry lobby ANFIA did not give a final judgment about consequences of the creation of Stellantis, now the world’s fourth largest carmaker.