Electreon and partners to demonstrate in-road dynamic wireless charging

Wireless charging specialist Electreon, together with the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center, truck-maker Kenworth and project management firm Kiewit, plan to demonstrate a dynamic wireless charging system.   Electreon’s in-motion dynamic wireless charging technology will be installed at ASPIRE’s research test track in North Logan, Utah in the summer of 2022. Kenworth supplied a Class 8 T680… Continue reading Electreon and partners to demonstrate in-road dynamic wireless charging

@Toyota: Sales, Production, and Export Results for March 2022

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its sales, production, and export results for March 2022 as well as the cumulative total from January to March 2022, and the fiscal year from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd. Go to Source

Why I Ride with Waymo: Christine

Editor’s note: Christine is an SF Trusted Tester who uses Waymo to pick up and drop off her five year old son at school. As a working mom, she appreciates the luxury Waymo gives her to spend time with her son on the way to school and the opportunity to get work done in a… Continue reading Why I Ride with Waymo: Christine

Kongsberg Automotive wins contract worth EUR 35.5 million in estimated lifetime revenue

Kongsberg Automotive’s Powertrain and Chassis (P&C) business segment has secured a contract worth EUR 35.5 million in estimated lifetime revenue and average annual revenue of EUR 5.1 million.  P&C Driveline business unit won the five-year contract for MT (manual transmission) and AT (automatic transmission) shifters for one of the largest OEMs in the world. Designed… Continue reading Kongsberg Automotive wins contract worth EUR 35.5 million in estimated lifetime revenue

Toyota relies on cameras

The Japanese company Toyota wants to give preference to the cheap cameras as data material for autonomous driving. Recently, the Japanese manufacturer Nissan be new ProPilot system presented, which is based on lidar, now Toyota wants to go for cameras? With the new lidar-using system, Nissan wants to provide autonomous driving by 2030. Previously, people… Continue reading Toyota relies on cameras

Opinion: New McLaren CEO starts with a long to-do list

McLaren had a plan. It would have three model lines, all sports cars, clearly defined: Sports Series, Super Series and Ultimate Series. Sales volumes would be modest by most supercar maker’s standards but would return a profit, funnelled back into model development. There would be no five-door and certainly no SUV. It would be a pure… Continue reading Opinion: New McLaren CEO starts with a long to-do list

Grab and NCS To Pilot Food Delivery Service Along Sentosa’s Siloso Beach via Outdoor Autonomous Vehicle

Grab and technology services firm NCS, with the support of Sentosa Development Corporation, have teamed up to pilot an autonomous vehicle (AV) robot food delivery service along Siloso Beach. Beachgoers can now have their GrabFood orders delivered by Island A.H.B.O.I., an outdoor autonomous vehicle robot, to pick-up points along Siloso Beach  SINGAPORE, 27 April 2022… Continue reading Grab and NCS To Pilot Food Delivery Service Along Sentosa’s Siloso Beach via Outdoor Autonomous Vehicle

Automotive: OEMs zigzag between Ukraine and China

Posted on Apr 27, 2022 at 4:12 p.m.Updated on Apr 27, 2022 at 4:13 p.m. A big brake in Europe in March, and another probably to come in China: the production crisis in the automotive industry knows no respite, as shown by the quarterly results published Tuesday and Wednesday by the major French equipment manufacturers… Continue reading Automotive: OEMs zigzag between Ukraine and China