Vietnamese students are scheduled to begin their campaign at a fuel-efficient car design competition in the Philippines on Friday. Five student teams from four universities in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Dong Nai Province will compete against over 95 other teams from 14 countries at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014 organized on a street circuit in the heart of the Philippine capital of Manila, the sponsor Shell said on its website. Student teams entering more than 100 model vehicles may participate in the Prototype or UrbanConcept vehicle categories of the competition. The Prototype category will see teams using cars of the future - streamlined vehicles focused on maximizing fuel-efficiency through innovative design elements. The UrbanConcept category will be dedicated to more "roadworthy" fuel-efficient vehicles that can meet the real-life needs of drivers and are closer in appearance to the higher-mileage cars seen on roads today. Success is not measured by speed but by … [Read more...] about Vietnamese students to compete at fuel-efficient car competition
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Car localisation ratio low because of dearth of suppliers
Hanoi Times - Vietnam has 50 automobile assemblers, while it only has 60 car part suppliers. Meanwhile, Japan only has 14 automobile manufacturers but 24,800 car part suppliers. According to Michael Pease, General Director of Ford Vietnam, the manufacturer only has 30 local partners which provide car parts and accessories, including the new Vietnamese car part supplier Harada Company in the southern province of Dong Nai. As a result, the US manufacturer has to import car parts from hundreds of partners worldwide to assemble in Vietnam. That explains why the local content of Ford's products is low, at 20% in terms of value. Toyota Vietnam is now among the automobile manufacturers with the highest localisation ratios in Vietnam, at 33%. ToyotaVietnam has invested $5mil in a bodywork workshop which will help it raise the localisation ratio of the Innova to 37%. The manufacturer has decided to make heavy investment in less-than-9-seat cars because of good sales of the … [Read more...] about Car localisation ratio low because of dearth of suppliers
Low car prices see Ho Chi Minh City residents cram driving schools
Demand for driver education in Ho Chi Minh City surged in 2017, mostly as a result of news that car prices would drop in 2018 following the scrapping of several import duties. The surge extended to both the number of people attending driving schools and those sitting driving tests, according to statistics from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport. In 2017, over 141,000 driver’s licenses were issued in the southern hub, an 11-percent increase on 2016. There are currently 70 institutions across the city offering driver education, with two more approved for later this year. Vo Trong Nhan, head of the examination and licensing division under the municipal transport department, attributed the trend to the recent forecast that cars were to become significantly cheaper in Vietnam thanks to the lifting of several import duties. Local consumers have been eagerly awaiting cheaper cars after Vietnam confirmed that it would scrap taxes on several kinds of fully imported, or … [Read more...] about Low car prices see Ho Chi Minh City residents cram driving schools
Quakes kill 1 in Taiwan, injure 33 in Philippines
A strong earthquake jolted Taiwan on Sunday, killing one person and injuring at least 18 others and causing panicked shoppers to rush out of a shaking multi-story department store, officials said. Another earthquake jolted the southern Philippines late Saturday, injuring at least 33 people and damaging more than 140 houses. The tremor that hit Taiwan on Sunday afternoon was felt all over the island, but most severely in the central and southern regions. The magnitude-6.3 quake's epicenter was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said. In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the island, a person was killed by a rockslide while driving a car on a mountain road, the Taiwan Fire Agency said in a statement. Rockslides at a scenic mountainous area near the epicenter injured several people, the agency said. In all, 18 people were injured by the earthquake, many by fallen objects. The Central … [Read more...] about Quakes kill 1 in Taiwan, injure 33 in Philippines
Long cable car system set to run next month
Long cable car system set to run next month By Dinh Dung - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC - Ba Na Hills Resort in the central city of Danang says it will bring into service a cable car system that links the base with the top of Ba Na Mountain in the region from March 25, after 14 months of construction and test running. A representative of Ba Na Hills Resort said the company invested some US$500 million to turn the famous mountain into a tourist destination, among which some VND300 billion was used for the cable car construction. Besides, there are some hotels and villas on the mountain with 200 guest rooms which are designed from two-star standard to five-star one. The cable car system is among services that were highlighted in a road show organized here in HCMC last Thursday by Danang City's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to introduce and to tap the central province's tourism potentials. Nguyen Phuc Linh, deputy director of the department, said the province was ready for the … [Read more...] about Long cable car system set to run next month