7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (100+ words) The president of Honda Motor used a shareholder meeting on Friday to apologize for the company's first-ever annual loss since its stock listing. Some shareholders criticized management for the 423. 9 billion-yen net loss in fiscal 2025. That's the equivalent of 2. 6 billion dollars....

3+ week, 10+ hour ago  (206+ words) A Japanese public-private council has announced a policy to build a long-distance truck transport network that runs on hydrogen fuel cells. The newly launched council unveiled the plan at its first meeting on Thursday. The members hail from the industry,…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago  (53+ words) Sky-high expectations as Space X eyes record IPO nhk. or. jp Sky-high expectations as Space X eyes record IPO IPO may lift the aerospace giant's value to 2 trillion dollars. An analyst says investors are enticed by plans to develop space-based…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (140+ words) Toyota Motor appears set to halt development of a next-generation EV sedan that it had hoped to start producing in 2027. Sources say Japan's biggest automaker made the decision amid slowing demand for electric vehicles. EV sales have slumped in the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (122+ words) Japanese and Chinese companies have teamed up to launch a mini EV in the Japanese market next year. The five firms involved include China's Chery Automobile and Japanese auto parts retailer Autobacs Seven. The first model is expected to feature…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (237+ words) A city in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, will launch in July an experimental project designed to safely collect various types of batteries using a box that can sort them using AI. The move comes as Japan has seen a series…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (167+ words) Japanese automakers expect the Iran conflict to push down their core earnings in the business year ending next March. Surging costs of oil-derived materials are posing a risk to their bottom lines. Toyota Motor sees its operating profit dropping by…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (218+ words) Japanese carmakers are ramping up their production and sales efforts in India's growing auto market. In the latest move, Toyota Motor says it is planning to build a new assembly plant in the west of the country. The company said…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (181+ words) China's domestic sales of new cars in April fell more than 21 percent from a year earlier mainly due to reduced tax incentives for electric and other vehicles. Meanwhile, exports rose sharply. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said last month's…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (147+ words) Elon Musk's Space X plans to invest tens of billions of dollars to construct a semiconductor plant in the southern US state of Texas to make chips necessary for autonomous driving technology and humanoid robots. Grimes County in Texas released…...