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ORGANISERS of the Canadian International AutoShow are drawing on innovative online systems to launch a unique online 2021 event, which will be staged virtually because of Covid-19.

Canada’s largest annual consumer show attracted 330,000 visitors this February, so staging the 2021 event physically was an impossible health risk until the epidemic is over, said show general manager Jason Campbell.…

USA automotive manufacturers are facing some tough choices when implementing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which entered into force on July 1, to avoid its pressure on costs being reflected in showroom price increases.

The new deal, which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), requires US, Mexican and Canadian auto manufacturers to increase their USMCA-bloc sourcing to ensure that 75% of a vehicle’s parts are made in a signatory country to benefit from the free trade provisions.…

The Mexican auto industry should be able to preserve its critically important USA export sales if it implements the new labour wage and origin components of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) slowly and steadily, allowing time to invest in technological efficiencies, experts predict.…

THE CHINA Coatings Industry Association on September 14 published a draft standard for the manufacture and sale of antibacterial and anti-viral coatings – a key growth segment during the Covid-19 pandemic. The draft specifies the terms, definitions, requirements, test methods, inspection rules, labelling, marking, packaging and storage of coating products with antibacterial and antiviral properties.…

LATIN America has been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic – with Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia in the top-20 of countries regarding cases per million people – and its paint and coatings market and industry has faced a similarly rough ride.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) continues to struggle to clamp down on fraud within its revenue collection and spending programmes – making progress, but with major scams still emerging within the EU’s complex international decision-making systems.

In its latest annual ‘fight against fraud’ report (1) (2), covering 2019, the European Commission reports that 939 discovered irregularities were reported as fraudulent (8% of the number), involving EUR461.4 million in lost money (28% of that affected by irregularities).…

EUROPEAN, Japanese and South Korean automotive manufacturers are about to follow new international guidance ensuring increasingly-networked vehicles are protected from hacking by cyber-criminals.

This follows the release of two new UN regulations, adopted June 24 by the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations.…

Automakers in the European Union (EU) are concerned the technologies used by their vehicles may have to comply with onerous personal data handling rules imposed by the EU. These fears have been sparked by draft guidelines released by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on how the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR – 2016/679) should apply to the industry.…

The UK’s automotive sector is sufficiently “resilient, agile and competitive”, the country’s Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) said today (June 23), to ensure the double whammy of Covid-19 and Brexit do not cause permanent damage in UK motor manufacturing.…

THE NEED to actively recharge electric vehicles makes them less attractive to consumers, especially when batteries can take eight hours to charge. So, the development of ambient technologies that enable EVs to charge themselves as they operate has been a key focus of automotive R&D.…