Friday 13th April 2018
EVgo, a network of public electric vehicle (EV) DC Fast charging stations, announced an agreement with Maven, General Motors’ car sharing brand, to construct a dedicated DC fast charging network available to Maven Gig Chevrolet Bolt EV drivers.
Friday 13th April 2018
Hino Motors and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH signed an agreement aiming to build a mutually beneficial strategic long-term partnership on eye-level.
Friday 13th April 2018
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi inked a blog post wherein he talks about how Uber has has begun to change the way cities move.
Friday 13th April 2018
The BMW Group today celebrated the official opening of its autonomous driving campus in Unterschleißheim. Klaus Fröhlich, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Development and Research, and Bavarian state premier Markus Söder were present for the inauguration of a forward-looking development facility that showcases the BMW Group’s transformation into a tech company.
Friday 13th April 2018
German Government’s Initiative Will Lead the Germany Automotive Industry in Global Autonomous Vehicles Ecosystem
Friday 13th April 2018
Using what is to date unique technology, the Volkswagen Group is currently testing autonomous parking at Hamburg Airport: based on a car park map the Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles navigate their way to a parking space on their own.
Friday 13th April 2018
This is what stress-free parking will look like in the future: pull up, step out of the car, pull out your smartphone, and use an app to tell your car to go park.
Thursday 12th April 2018
Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center, Inc., (HATCI) and Mojo Mobility, Inc., a wireless power technology company, have been awarded a funding grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies (VT) program to research and develop a system capable of fast charging an electric vehicle wirelessly.
Thursday 12th April 2018
Greenlots, a global provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and grid management software, announced it was selected to provide its cloud-based network services for Thailand’s leading state-owned utility, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).
Wednesday 11th April 2018
Forsee Power announces facility to manufacture EV batteries in France
Wednesday 11th April 2018
Counterpoint research revealed that General Motors, BMW, Audi and Mercedes Benz are leading the global connected car market, as of 2017.
Wednesday 11th April 2018
BAIC Group (Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co., Ltd.) and Magna announced that they will jointly develop a next-generation smart electric vehicle architecture for the Chinese market.
Tuesday 10th April 2018
The carsharing portal HoppyGo has merged with the mobility services provider SmileCar from Czech transportation company Leo Express, thus allowing private car carsharing to be combined with bus and rail transport.
Tuesday 10th April 2018
Tuesday 10th April 2018
Nissan will show three electric vehicles at Auto China 2018, as part of a lineup that offers an exciting glimpse of the future and shows the company’s strength and depth in the highly competitive and growing Chinese market.
Monday 9th April 2018
For the first time, autonomous vehicles can be accurately tested and
trained without using real roads.
The platform significantly reduces the cost and time involved in
developing these vehicles and provides a completely safe testing
environment.
Two major vehicle manufacturers have already adopted the technology and
are already carrying out more than 2 million miles of testing per month.
Monday 9th April 2018
To enable the operation of most fully self-driving car prototypes, the
road network needs to be mapped in high resolution. When EastLink's
Mullum Mullum tunnel was closed for overnight maintenance recently,
Telstra's aerial drone captured a LIDAR map of the tunnel. This brings
the EastLink tunnel a step closer to being able to support safe trials
of fully self-driving cars.
Monday 9th April 2018
A Coventry-based autonomous vehicle specialist will press go on the
official start of the UK Autodrive trials in Milton Keynes this week,
with self-driving pods taking to the pavements and streets of the town
over the next 12 months.
Monday 9th April 2018
Velodyne has announced its new fixed-laser,
solid-state Velarray LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor, a high-performance and rugged automotive product in a
small form factor.
Monday 9th April 2018
A year after going all electric in North America, Daimler has announced that its smart car brand is all set to go fully electric in Europe by 2020, a significant move since Europe is a much bigger market for the German automaker than North America.
Friday 6th April 2018
Real-time perception software leverages super-efficient neural networks
to enable more accurate computer vision to be affordably deployed in
mass-produced cars
Friday 6th April 2018
ViaVan has been launched in London. From now on ViaVan offers its innovative on-demand ridesharing service as an ecologically and economically valuable addition to the existing mobility services in the capital.
Friday 6th April 2018
Getaround, the platform that empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city, has announced its expansion into Greater Los Angeles.
Friday 6th April 2018
Gov. Rick Snyder, along with business, government and academia leaders throughout Michigan, celebrated the grand opening of the American Center for Mobility (ACM) and welcomed Microsoft as the exclusive data and cloud provider for the mobility center at the historic Willow Run site in Ypsilanti Township.
