Automotive IT News and Facts
General Motors and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen will build three cars together and move ahead  with plans to jointly purchase components. The US and French carmakers, which earlier  this year agreed on a far-reaching cooperation, said they would develop common vehicle architectures for a C-segment vehicle for Opel and Peugeot; a B-segment MPV for both groups; and an [...]
General Motors and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen confirmed they will jointly develop four vehicles as part of a wide-ranging cooperation pact put in place earlier this year. The US and French car groups said in a press release that they would, together build a compact class multi-purpose van for Opel and a compact-class crossover utility vehicle for the [...]
PARIS – PSA-Peugeot/Citroen is betting on hybrids rather than full electric vehicles, a senior company executive told automotiveIT at the auto show here. “AT PSA we believe hybrids have more future than pure electric vehicles,” said Christian Chapelle, head of powertrain & chassis engineering at the French car group. PSA was one of the first carmakers to [...]
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is negotiating to sell the majority of its Gefco logistics division to JSC Russian Railways in a move that will boost the embattled French automotive group’s finances and allow it to concentrate on its core carmaking business. PSA said in a press release that it aims to sell 75 pc of Gefco to JSC [...]
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen said it is planning to close a plant, lay off several thousand workers and reorganize its operations to restore profitability. The French carmaker, which said it will report a first-half operating loss in its automotive division of around 700 million euros, has been hit hard by the weakness of the European market. More than [...]
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is extending Dassault Systemes’ Delmia software to its powertrain manufacturing operations. The move means that the French carmaker now uses the same Delmia tools and methodologies for assembly simulation, painting, factory layout, stamping and powertrain. Dassault, one of a handful of global suppliers of simulation and product lifecycle management software, said Delmia will allow [...]
MUNICH –Smartphone integration may be one of the hottest issues in automotive infotainment, but the ubiquitous end-user device will not play a role in Europe’s eCall initiative. The EU Commission wants the Europe-wide emergency calling system to be mandatory in cars from 2015. But implementation across all of the bloc’s 27 member nations has been [...]
Peugeot will show a diesel-electric hybrid, the 508 RXH, at the Frankfurt auto show. It is the second model to feature the French brand’s new Hybrid4 diesel-electric power plant. Last year, Peugeot launched the 3008 Hybrid4 crossover The 508 RXH is a completely separate model that will go on sale in the spring of 2012. [...]
Peugeot is getting help from the Deutsche Bundesbahn in developing a charging infrastructure for its new iOn plug-in electric vehicle. The French car brand, part of the PSA/Peugeot-Citroen group, said private car owners, companies as well as car dealers will have access to services to be provided by DB Energie, a subsidiary of German Rail. [...]
BMW and PSA/Peugeot-Citroen have formed a 50-50 joint venture to develop hybrid technology. The move follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding signed in October to expand the existing hybrid cooperation between the two carmakers. BMW Peugeot Citroen Electrification will focus on developing standard hybrid components for the electrification of both companies’ vehicle ranges, [...]
