Thursday 30th August 2018
Following the announcement of the name change planned for 2019, from Daimler Financial Services AG to Daimler Mobility AG, Daimler’s mobility division continued on its growth trajectory in July. With car2go, moovel, mytaxi/Intelligent Apps, the mobility portfolio in the segment of Daimler Financial Services counted 24.4 million customers as of July 30, 2018.
Thursday 30th August 2018
The @CITY research initiative brings together 15 partners from the automotive industry, component supply industry, software development and universities. The two partner projects @CITY and @CITY-AF aim to develop concepts, technologies and prototype applications to enable automated driving in complex urban areas.
Thursday 30th August 2018
According to reports, Didi Chuxing, the largest ride sharing company in China, has temporarily suspended its carpooling service. The company, which was already facing considerable backlash from customers due to extremely long wait times, was forced to take this decision after a passenger was killed in one of its vehicles.
Thursday 30th August 2018
Wipro, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, has announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) to spearhead the development of blockchain standards and drive blockchain adoption in the transportation industry.
Wednesday 29th August 2018
Perceptive Automata, a provider of human behavior prediction software for machines, announced that it has joined the AWare ecosystem of Renovo, a mobility software technology company.
Wednesday 29th August 2018
ParkMobile, the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America, announced that the company has surpassed the 10 million user milestone.
Tuesday 28th August 2018
Wind River, an IoT software company delivering safety-critical domains including automotive, announced collaboration plans with Hyundai Autron to develop a software framework for safe, automated and autonomous driving leveraging intellectual property from Wind River’s automotive software portfolio and the Hyundai Autron Odin product offering.
Tuesday 28th August 2018
Aisin, Advics, Jtekt and Denso to establish JV to develop integrated ECU software for Automated Driving
Tuesday 28th August 2018
Jaguar Land Rover has fitted ‘virtual eyes’ to intelligent pods to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research studies suggest that as many as 63% of pedestrians worry about how safe it will be to cross the road in the future.
Monday 27th August 2018
Having announced their first ever publicly available self-driving pilot programme in Frisco, Texas, a few weeks ago, Drive.ai signed a contract initiating a one-year self-driving programme for the City of Arlington.
Monday 27th August 2018
CHAdeMO Association announced their decision to jointly develop the next generation Ultra-Fast charging standard with China Electricity Council, China’s official association of utilities in charge of their national regulations and standards related to electricity. Two entities will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on August 28th in Beijing, China, to kick-start their collaboration.
Monday 27th August 2018
Didi Chuxing shared its latest developments in AI technology applications with students, engineers and academic and industry partners, at the DiDi Tech Day in Beijing.
Monday 27th August 2018
Sweden’s first high-power charging (HPC) station was opened by Fortum Charge & Drive in partnership with McDonald’s. The station is located at McDonald’s in Kristinehamn, some 270 kilometres west of Stockholm and midway between Oslo and Stockholm.
Monday 27th August 2018
AutoX is launching a grocery delivery and mobile store pilot in San Jose, CA, allowing public users to order and receive fresh produce and other goods delivered by AutoX self-driving cars.
Monday 27th August 2018
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Uber Technologies, Inc. announced that they have agreed to expand their collaboration with the aim of advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale.
Thursday 23rd August 2018
Volkswagen is speeding up the development of its ecosystem with its own software know-how and the strength of external partners. The automobile is expected to evolve into a central hub in the Internet of Things.
Thursday 23rd August 2018
New Zealanders will soon see more of electric vehicles’ versatility, with co-funding for 19 diverse projects announced by Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods.
Thursday 23rd August 2018
The Volkswagen brand is to launch an extensive all-electric car sharing offering in selected major cities under its “We Share†sub-brand. The first fleet of vehicles will be rolled out in the German capital Berlin, and will comprise 1,500 e-Golf when the service begins operating in the second quarter of 2019, with an additional 500 e-up! following later.
Thursday 23rd August 2018
Aptiv announced that it had reached a significant milestone of 5,000 self-driving public rides, powered by the Aptiv autonomous driving platform.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Hyundai Mobis has made an equity investment agreement with StradVision, a Korean startup, which possesses deep learning-based camera image detection technology. The firm will invest KRW8 billion (7.15 million) in this startup to reinforce its competitiveness in core technologies of future vehicles.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Drivers of electric vehicles will now be able to get a fast ‘power up’ in local high streets and residential roads across the Waltham Forest borough following the installation of 24 new electric vehicle charging bays.
Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Proterra announced that it has been selected by the Georgia Department of Administrative Services as a vendor to supply zero-emission battery-electric buses and charging stations for its Statewide Contract for Public Mass Transit & Transportation.
Tuesday 21st August 2018
Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new type of artificially intelligent camera system that can classify images faster and more energy efficiently, and that could one day be built small enough to be embedded in the devices themselves, something that is not possible today.
Tuesday 21st August 2018
Hyundai Motor Company announced a partnership with Revv, a self-drive car sharing company to develop an innovative car sharing service and conduct creative marketing activities in India.
