Weekly car news: 1st March 2023

"Weekly car news " is a recap of some of the major stories in Taiwan car market last week.

20th February 2023

●Foxconn completed the first low-orbit satellite scheduling to be launched this year.

●Hotai Motor announced that the 12-speed AMT gearbox, SRS airbag for driver’s seat, and defogging rear view mirror had been added to Hino 700 Series.

●Nanyang Industries announced that the Hyundai Ioniq 6 will begin the pre-sale on 7th March, and the trim levels are EV400, EV600, and EV600 Performance.

22nd February 2023

●TCC officially started the “2023 EARTH HELPER carbon reduction action” that called people to reduce carbon emission by 585 tons.

23rd February 2023

●Honda Taiwan announced that the 11th generation Honda Civic e:HEV will go on sale in May this year.

●Pan German Motor introduced the 3rd generation BMW X1, and the trim levels and the starting MSRPs are the X1 sDrive18i xLine (NT$ 1,900,000), the X1 sDrive20i xLine (NT$ 2,120,000), and the iX1 xDrive30 xLine (NT$ 2,220,000).

24th February 2023

●Yulon Nissan introduced the Nissan Kick “潮流版”, and the MSRP starts from NT$865,000.

25th February 2023

●Nio plans to establish a battery manufacturing plant in Hefei, China, and the annual production capacity is 40 GWh