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4 » INDEX April 2018 | AutoData 14 20 44 28 46 48 34 38 6 8 50 26 54 ESSAYS 2025 CONSUMER OF THE FUTURE ESSAYS 2025 ELECTRICAL SUPPLY SUPPLIERS RECOGNITION MARKET TRUCKS ASSEMBLERS FACTORIES ANNIVERSARY VOLKSWAGEN EVENT AUTODATA SEMINAR INVESTMENTS JAC MOTORS LENSES FROM THE TOP AUTODATA ASKS PEOPLE & BUSINESS END OF CHAT The backstage of the automotive industry. And the situations in the hornet’s nest that nobody pokes. Carlos Alberto Oliveira Andrade, the Caoa, tells us all about the agreement he signed with Chery We choose a theme monthly and invite a specialist to respond Executive moves and other news from the Brazilian automotive industry The most relevant and irrelevant headlines of the month, handpicked by our editors Young people no longer want to own a car, but they do not give up the facilities that the car offers. Finding out how to rebalance this balance and giving shelter to the change it will require in the sales process will be critical to the future of the industry The automotive sector is at the forefront of a crossroads, a kind of dilemma of who came first, the egg or the chicken, modern: for the electric vehicles what comes first: the infrastructure network or the demand for vehicles with this technology? Hyundai awarded its best suppliers in an event held in the city of Piracicaba, Interior Paulista, the same land of its plant. The manufacturer says recognition since 2014 has helped improve quality indices, including those that were already the best After two extremely negative years finally the truck segment, especially the heavy truck segment, receives real signs of a resumption of sales. Although the base is very low, it is possible to say that the projection of the Anfavea for the year is pessimistic Mercedes-Benz spent half of its latest investment cycle in Brazil to create an entirely new truck assembly line at the São Bernardo do Campo plant at ABC Paulista. It was worth it: it is now the most modern in the world. Volkswagen celebrated its first 65 years in the country increasing the expectation for its biggest offensive in products of history: it showed the new Tiguan, which will be only the third in a list of twenty launches scheduled for the national market by 2020 Presidents of Anfavea, Abeifa, Sindipeças, SAE Brasil and other executives took to the seminar stage promoted by AutoData Editora to address the megatrends of the industry. Items of concern were not lacking: ranging from energy policy to risk of missing parts. The Jac Motors factory in Camaçari should have been inaugurated in 2014, but after four years it is still not known exactly where, how and when it will be - Sérgio Habib says that now the address has changed to Goiás, but almost nobody wants to mention that subject