Friday 30th November 2018
Bosch has developed a sensor that allows automated vehicles to precisely determine their position: the vehicle motion and position sensor. This new sensor includes a high-performance receiver unit for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals, which an automated vehicle needs to determine its absolute position.
Friday 30th November 2018
Volvo Cars Silicon Valley Tech Centre has opened the doors to its new, state-of-the-art facility in downtown Sunnyvale. The move, which almost triples the physical presence of the Silicon Valley Tech Centre, grows the Swedish automaker’s initial foray into Silicon Valley established in September 2016.
Friday 30th November 2018
Volkswagen and Tesco announced the development of the largest UK retail electric vehicle (EV) charging network, powered by Pod Point. The world’s largest vehicle manufacturer and the UK’s largest fuel retailer will roll out more than 2,400 EV charging bays across 600 Tesco stores within the next three years.
Friday 30th November 2018
General Motors and Cruise are taking the next step toward commercialising autonomous vehicle technology with the appointment of Dan Ammann as CEO of Cruise. Kyle Vogt, Cruise co-founder, will partner with Ammann to set strategic direction for the company and will lead technology development as Cruise president and chief technology officer. The appointments are effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Friday 30th November 2018
From 3 December, Groupe PSA’s car-sharing platform, Free2Move Paris, will start providing access to a fleet of 550 electric Peugeot i0n and Citroën C-Zéro vehicles.
Thursday 29th November 2018
Ford has come up with a means by which big data could potentially help cities identify locations which, if nothing is done, are most likely to be the scene of future traffic incidents.
Thursday 29th November 2018
Škoda Auto has formed further partnerships with Israeli start-ups thanks to a strong local scouting presence. Some of the technologies developed are already being tested in a real deployment.
Thursday 29th November 2018
Ericsson has been selected by Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) to provide the industrialised Ericsson Connected Vehicle Cloud (CVC) platform to further enable its digital vehicle services in more than 120 markets worldwide for the next five years.
Thursday 29th November 2018
Uniti Sweden has announced plans to establish an electric vehicle “pilot production plant” at Silverstone Park, the home of the British Grand Prix. The facility will be used to produce the Uniti One electric car, while serving as a blueprint for globally licensed “digital” assembly plants throughout the world.
Thursday 29th November 2018
Continental and Turo announced a collaboration to bring instant mobility to users through the exciting new application, Turo Go. The growing community of Turo members will now be able to book and unlock cars at the touch of a button through the smartphone application.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
Eyesight, a provider of edge-based computer vision AI solutions for the automotive industry, has teamed up with top Chinese GPS and telematics firm Exsun to make trucking safer, helping commercial trucks comply with new Chinese regulations which came into place in order to reduce accidents caused by driver drowsiness and inattentiveness.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
Utilising Velodyne Lidar sensors, ThorDrive, a autonomous vehicle (AV) startup, is introducing commercial vehicle services in the first of many pilots. The kick-off event will be attended by local government and business leaders, including Mayor Liz Kniss of Palo Alto, Mike Jellen, President and CCO of Velodyne Lidar, and Seung-Woo Seo, founder of ThorDrive.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
ChargePoint, an electric vehicle (EV) charging network, announced that it has secured $240 million in Series H funding, the largest in its history. The investors reflect a diverse set of participants, from early market to institutional investors across the energy, financial, venture capital, oil and gas, utility, manufacturing, technology and automotive sectors.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
At Drone Week in Amsterdam Audi, Airbus and Italdesign are presenting for the first time a flying and driving prototype of “Pop.Up Next”.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
Nissan has formulated a plan for electric vehicles by introducing new ways to utilise their batteries’ ability to store and share energy.
Wednesday 28th November 2018
ChargePoint, an electric vehicle (EV) charging network, announced that it has secured $240 million in Series H funding, the largest in its history. The investors reflect a diverse set of participants, from early market to institutional investors across the energy, financial, venture capital, oil and gas, utility, manufacturing, technology and automotive sectors.
Tuesday 27th November 2018
SF Motors, a global electric vehicle company founded in California in 2016, announced that it has received patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office with Patent No. 10,106,153 on October 23, 2018 covering the design and methodology for fully autonomous parking.
Tuesday 27th November 2018
Rivian, an electric vehicle manufacturer, has released information about the first of its Electric Adventure Vehicles the R1T, an all-electric, 5-passenger pickup. The automaker will introduce its fully electric SUV, the R1S along with the R1T to the public on Nov. 27, at AutoMobility LA.
Tuesday 27th November 2018
INRIX, a connected car services and mobility analytics company, has received the BMW Supplier Innovation Award from BMW Group for its work in the area of connected driving.
Monday 26th November 2018
Curtiss Motorcycles, in collaboration with the equity crowdfunding portal Wefunder, announced the opening of its equity raise, priced at $0.20 per share. Investment is open to the public with a minimum investment of $1,000, equating to 5,000 shares of common stock in the company.
Monday 26th November 2018
Veoneer, Inc., a pure-play company focused on Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD), will demonstrate automotive safety tech at CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
Friday 23rd November 2018
Didi Chuxing, the world’s leading mobile transportation platform, officially launched its DiDi Labs in Toronto, Canada. This marks the second major research facility founded by DiDi in North America, following the establishment of DiDi Labs in Mountain View, California, in March 2017.
Friday 23rd November 2018
Envoy Technologies, a provider of shared on-demand, community-based electric vehicles (EVs), announced the first wave of live sites and vehicle deployments under the Electrify America Green City initiative in Sacramento called Sac-to-Zero.
Friday 23rd November 2018
Apex.AI, a company developing self-driving technologies, recently announced that they have secured $15.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Canaan. with participation from their seed investor Lightspeed.
