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.
Tuesday 21st August 2018
Sussex PCC Katy Bourne has announced that electric cars will be used for non-response, unmarked police vehicles across Sussex and Surrey.
Tuesday 21st August 2018
Getaround, a carsharing platform that lets users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city, announced its Series D financing round, totaling $300M. The round was led by SoftBank, with further participation from Toyota Motor Corporation, and inside investors.
Tuesday 21st August 2018
BYD announced its successful delivery of 101 pure electric e6 cars to Bangkok, with another 1000 more to come. The agreement with Thailand to export an additional fleet of cars catapults BYD to the number one position in the country’smarket for pure electric vehicles.
Monday 20th August 2018
ZAF Energy Systems Inc. (ZAF), a developer of next-generation battery technology, announced that it has received $300,000, the first installment of a $600,000 investment from Missouri’s Department of Economic Development (DED) fund as part of the state’s Venture Capital Co-Investment Program.
Monday 20th August 2018
Just six months after its Series A announcement of $112M, autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai has raised a follow-on funding round.
Monday 20th August 2018
The engineers from the Research and Development Department of Solaris Bus & Coach have created a system to streamline and support diagnostic solutions, improve maintenance options and to facilitate the analysis of specialist data derived from vehicles produced in Bolechowo.
Monday 20th August 2018
WaveSense, Inc., announced the commercialisation of its patented military-proven ground-penetrating radar (GPR) that significantly improves navigation safety and precision on any road by keeping self-driving vehicles precisely in-lane.
