Mazda's CEO and President, Masahiro Moro surprised everyone at the ongoing Tokyo Auto Salon 2024 with an accidental tongue slip revealing that company was re-establishing a rotary engine development team after a hiatus of about six years. Likely, the specific purpose of the team would be to develop a high-performance rotary hybrid powertrain that was first announced with the Mazda Iconic SP concept, which received overwhelming response following its reveal at the Japan Mobility Show 2023. Also r

South Korea is turning towards Indonesia to bolster its supply chain for EV batteries and components in a bid to reduce its heavy dependency on China. On the back of a trip by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s visit to the archipelago for the South Korea-Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, conglomerate chiefs from the peninsular nation paid a business trip to boost EV cooperation. The conglomerates comprised Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun, LG Group Chairman Koo

“A big embarrassment for Indonesia” and “Indonesian President… to feel jealous” are some of the comments mentioned in a recent opinion piece published by Japan’s Nikkei Asia in regard to Tesla’s launch in Malaysia. Indonesia’s government has already courted the American EV maker for years to invest in the archipelago but it seems that Malaysia somehow won according to the opinion piece by A. Lin Neumann, managing director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. Tesla has set up a regio

A Tesla whistleblower leaked a massive collection of data amounting to 100 GB to German newspaper Handelsblatt. The data reveals over 2,400 reports of self-acceleration issues, more than 1,500 braking problems, 139 instances of "unintentional emergency braking" and 383 cases of "phantom stops," wherein false collision warnings prompted unnecessary braking actions. The files document instances of Tesla vehicles autonomously manoeuvring around obstacles in parking lots, with some resulting in mino

To say the Hyundai Ioniq 5 is an immense success in Indonesia might be a bit of an understatement with the electric vehicle (EV) outselling the Honda CR-V in May 2022. Indeed, reception for the Ioniq 5 has been overwhelming in the archipelago with over 800 bookings made at the 2022 Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS) back in April. This accounted for 51 percent of new Hyundai cars that were booked at the motor show. The Ioniq 5 in Indonesia is offered with 4 variants priced from IDR 718 mi

Kia's design team can do no wrong. They've crossed over into the promised land by injecting a pinch of sex appeal into some of the most mundane bodystyles. Case in point, the side-view mirror pictured above. As far as something that's usually an afterthought, it does look good. Like all modern designs from Kia, the all-new second-generation 2022 Kia Niro is going to be a looker. We’ve seen the hybrid (HEV) version before but it wouldn’t hurt to turn that neck for a second look, especially with t