21 February 2025
Powering up: the role of charging infrastructures in sustaining Europe's EV market growth
Europe's shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) is one of the most significant transformations in the history of its automotive industry. With governments, automakers, and consumers...
6 February 2025
Low-emission vehicles: what European regulations could require from 2035 onwards
The European Union has established ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, committing through the European Green Deal, voted by the EU Parliament in 2020,...
10 September 2024
Growth and challenges within automotive cybersecurity
According to the Global Automotive Cybersecurity Market Assessment report, published by Markets & Data, the global automotive cybersecurity market is expected to grow due to...
10 May 2024
EU’s average vehicles lifespan on the rise
The advent of electric cars has enabled a revolution in the automotive sector, within the context of an increased awareness of environmental sustainability challenges and...
25 October 2023
FAIST CPS ramps up its electric actuators production capacity
In the last years FAIST Controls and Propulsion Systems Division developed a group of new products for the automotive market, increasing the production capacity in...
3 May 2023
What you need to know about the EU Euro 7 standards
The Euro 7 law proposal put forward by the European commission aims to tighten limits on harmful substances, including nitrogen oxides (NOx), declaring that benefits...
24 March 2023
Electric vehicles thermal cooling systems
Electric vehicle (EV) car sales increased by 60% in 2022, surpassing 10 million for the first time, reports Quartz. Meanwhile, sales of conventional cars with...
20 April 2022
The autonomous driving market is expected to surpass 54 million in 2024
The global autonomous car market size was a notable USD 1.45 billion in 2020. Still, the driverless vehicles market has undergone a significant slowdown during...
5 April 2022
A review of 2022 global automotive customer trends
Trends come and go, but in an industry such as automotive, where research and development programs are very extensive and can take many years before...
22 March 2022
Is ultra-fast charging the key to future mobility development?
In this article we deep-dive in the new ultra-fast electric vehicles’ charger produced in FAIST CPS&IND Metalworking plant in Oradea. Guiding us, Marco Fusaioli, Key...
23 February 2022
CO2 targets and commercial vehicles
The climate summits which have taken place over the last decades, including COP26 held in October and November 2021, have repeatedly underlined the need for...
9 February 2022
Automotive Key Account Management: opportunities and challenges
As the calendar flips over to 2022 the automotive industry will contend with the same challenges it did a year ago — namely, the pandemic...
30 November 2021
Electric vehicles have the lowest lifecycle GHG emissions
In a report published last July by ICCT (the International Council on Clean Transportation), titled “A global comparison of life-cycle GHG emissions from passenger cars”,...
4 November 2021
The connected cars market: what we need to know
In 2019 the global connected vehicles market was valued at 63.03 million dollars, which is forecast to reach 225.16 billion dollars by 2027, with a...
9 September 2021
Covid-19’s impact on the automotive industry worldwide
The pandemic has had a great economic impact, and the automotive industry, already quite sluggish since 2019, even before we were struck by the virus,...
22 July 2021
What is application engineering?
First of all, please present yourself to the readers outlining what is your role in FAIST CPS division. My name is Domenico Carnevale, I am...
15 April 2021
Automotive lightweight materials market is estimated to grow to 245 billion by 2026
The automotive lightweight materials market keeps growing: its size surpassed 184.9 billion dollars in 2019 and it is estimated that it will grow to have...
1 April 2021
Prototyping from FAIST CPS&IND perspective
Did you know it takes an average of three full years to take a vehicle from the concept phase all the way to production readiness?...
4 February 2021
FAIST’s Rotary Electric Actuators production ramp-up plan
FAIST’s Rotary Electric Actuators productive plan, extending from 2020 to 2024, foresees various add productive lines being designed, integrated and constructed by FAIST to serve...
30 December 2020
How are we going to lighten automobiles?
The need to save on vehicles’ fuel consumption is becoming increasingly important for car manufacturers, for many reasons. Among them, consumers being much more informed...
