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Vehicle assembly as an industrial activity: plant siting, shared platforms, labour costs and development cycles.
Hyundai Motor plans 320,000 vehicles a year of capacity at the former GM plant in Pune by 2030, against GM's 130,000. Getting there takes line speed from 21 vehicles an hour to 44.
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FAW-Volkswagen and UBTECH signed an Oct. 8 agreement to develop and test humanoid robots for factory logistics, TechRepublic reported. The companies announced no robot order, named task or timetable, so for now it is a testing program.
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UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen agreed on October 8 to develop and test humanoid robots for car-plant logistics at new demonstration sites. For now it is a testing programme: the deal does not yet fix a robot model, tasks, fleet size or deployment date.
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Saudi Arabia's newest carmaker has a plant on the kingdom's west coast and a design brief from the Crown Prince, and PIF wants the cluster around it to lift non-oil exports. Its Saudi supplier base is scheduled to arrive by 2034.
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The second-generation Spring comes in under 20,000 euros before incentives, and what gets it there is a decades-old Slovenian plant with low local wages plus a development cycle Renault says it cut to under two years.
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