Beyond its home base in Graz, Austria, the contract vehicle assembler has expanded recently with new plants in China and Slovenia, and even during the COVID downturn the supplier is eager to set up shop in North America, likely to assemble BEVs.
JD Power’s Gerardo Gómez thinks that if Mexico successfully creates an expanded low-cost parts sector, it could reduce the cost of making some cars in North America by 10% within 10 years.
For Wards Intelligence Subscribers An autonomous vehicle usually can make reasonable predictions about where another vehicle is going to be in the next instant. Pedestrians and bicyclists are another story.