Thursday 31st May 2018
General Motors has announces that the SoftBank Vision Fund will invest
$2.25 billion in GM Cruise Holdings LLC (GM Cruise), further
strengthening the company’s plans to commercialize AV technology at
large scale. GM will also invest $1.1 billion in GM Cruise upon closing
of the transaction.
Thursday 31st May 2018
StreetScooter GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group and a
producer of electric delivery vehicles, has opened its second
manufacturing facility.
Thursday 31st May 2018
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Enel X, Enel’s division
dedicated to innovative products and digital solutions, and the
Association of Orange Flag Municipalities to
bring electric mobility to the Italian towns.
Wednesday 30th May 2018
Trucks, buses and cars were showcasing the geofencing technology, an
important step toward creating a connected transport system with digital
infrastructure and shared interface in Stockholm, featuring participants from Veoneer, Scania, Volvo Cars and Volvo Group as well as the City of Gothenburg and the City of Stockholm
Wednesday 30th May 2018
Airbus has appointed Eduardo Dominguez Puerta, 40, Head of Urban Air
Mobility (UAM), a new Airbus unit, effective 1 June 2018. In his new
function, he will report to Patrick de Castelbajac, Executive Vice
President Strategy and International.
Wednesday 30th May 2018
Taxify - a cab hailing service based in Estonia and operating across
Europe has raised $175 million in funding from a group led by German
automaker Daimler. The investment also included Europe-based Korelya
Capital and Taavet Hinrikus, founder of Transferwise. China’s Didi
Chuxing was among the returning investors.
Tuesday 29th May 2018
A team of researchers coordinated by Carlo Ratti, director of MIT’s
Senseable City Lab, unveiled a computationally efficient solution to the
problem, which they dub the “minimum fleet problem.â€
Tuesday 29th May 2018
The BMW Group’s campus for autonomous driving is a state-of-the-art
centre of excellence that covers every base when it comes to offering
greater capacity for innovation and increased development efficiency –
and ultimately securing the company’s future sustainability.
Tuesday 29th May 2018
Volkswagen and car-sharing company Zipcar struck up a partnership in
2016 which, in the two years since, has led thousands of Londoners to
get behind the wheel of the petrol-electric Golf GTE or internal
combustion-engined Polo. Now that choice of car will increase further,
with a significant order from Zipcar for 325 all-electric e-Golfs.
Monday 28th May 2018
Getaround is rolling into Seattle to help its booming population get
from point A to point B and even point C at the tap of a button.
Monday 28th May 2018
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced that sales began on March 7
of the “Soraâ€, the first fuel cell bus (FC bus) to receive vehicle type
certification in Japan.
Monday 28th May 2018
SK telecom along with Hyundai Motor Co. and Seoul National University to take part in a South Korean government initiative to develop a
public transport system based on the lines of autonomous driving
vehicles.
Monday 28th May 2018
BMW i has launched a factory-fitted, fully integrated inductive charging
facility for the high-voltage battery in a plug-in hybrid vehicle.
Production will start in July.
Monday 28th May 2018
Veoneer, Autoliv’s electronics business, has been selected by a world leading automaker as a partner to develop and produce mono
vision camera systems comprised of camera hardware, software and
algorithms.
Saturday 26th May 2018
SSB will launch its new service on June 1, 2018, SSB Flex will pool similar journey requests in three areas to provide additional, more flexible journey options in certain high-traffic areas or at specific times in order to supplement the existing transportation services offered.
Saturday 26th May 2018
Ten electric Solaris Urbino 12 buses will reinforce the fleet of Hamburg public transport operator Hochbahn. In line with the agreement two of the commissioned vehicles shall be supplied in autumn this year. The remaining ones will be handed over in September 2019.
Saturday 26th May 2018
Following successful launches in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, Ola, the ride sharing platforms, is now available in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Canberra.
Saturday 26th May 2018
Friday 25th May 2018
Nissan has pulled the covers off its Nissan LEAF Open Car, an open-air version of the new Nissan LEAF, in Tokyo.
Thursday 24th May 2018
MapmyIndia announced its partnership with NTT Data Corporation a global IT solutions provider, to develop India’s first large-scale 3D map datasets, named AW3D India.
Thursday 24th May 2018
The number of electric vehicles worldwide is growing rapidly and BP is working across the supply chain to support the development of the technologies and infrastructure required to support that growth.
Thursday 24th May 2018
There are 12,000 electric vehicles in London - a figure which has increased tenfold since 2012 and could limit the number of people owning an electric vehicle in the
capital.
Thursday 24th May 2018
Toyota sees global sales of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV)
increasing significantly after 2020, to at least 30,000 per year from
today’s 3,000.
Thursday 24th May 2018
HERE Technologies has announced the launch of a new over-the-air (OTA) solution for automakers to use in connected vehicles, which is aiming at ensuring data, software and firmware transfer between the cloud and the vehicle is secure.
