FILE PHOTO: Nissan Executive Vice President Hideyuki Sakamoto poses with the carmaker’s logo in the showroom at the carmaker’s headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, January 13, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TOKYO (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) chose executive vice president Hideyuki Sakamoto as a candidate for the board of directors, the company said on Friday, following… Continue reading Nissan picks Sakamoto as board candidate after Seki’s sudden resignation
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Quick Ride registers 22 lakh new car-pooling users in 2019
Bangalore-based ride-sharing startup company Quick Ride has reported 22 lakh new registrations across Bangalore, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kerala, and Kolkata in 2019. Quick Ride claims that ever since it began in 2015, it has registered a total user base of 3.2 million users. As per reports, Quick Ride has witnessed a 4x growth in… Continue reading Quick Ride registers 22 lakh new car-pooling users in 2019
VW’s prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage
Tesla isn’t the only car maker with grand visions of EV charging robots. Volkswagen has created a prototype charging robot that would navigate to your car in the parking garage, saving you the trouble of hunting for a coveted (and likely rare) EV charging spot. The autonomous helper would hitch itself to a “battery wagon”… Continue reading VW’s prototype charging robot can find your EV in the parking garage
Uber just quietly bought 600 acres of land to build a new test track for self-driving cars in Pittsburgh (UBER)
An Uber affiliate has purchased nearly 600 acres of land near Pittsburgh to test self-driving-car technology. The purchase marks the company’s latest expansion of its autonomous-driving efforts, which it resumed testing on public roads in Pittsburgh in December last year after suspending the program for nine months following a fatal accident in Arizona. “I can… Continue reading Uber just quietly bought 600 acres of land to build a new test track for self-driving cars in Pittsburgh (UBER)
@VW Group: World première: Revolution in the underground car park – Volkswagen lets its charging robots loose
Volkswagen provides a glimpse into the future in which the search for charging stations for electric cars comes to an end. Volkswagen Group Components’ mobile charging robot takes over this task – and drives to the electric car completely autonomously. After it is started via app or V2X communication, the mobile robot drives itself to… Continue reading @VW Group: World première: Revolution in the underground car park – Volkswagen lets its charging robots loose
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Is This Enovate ME7 The First Production Solid-State Battery Vehicle?
The next big thing about EVs is the adoption of solid-state batteries – SSB, for short. While we were waiting for the first vehicle with these batteries to appear, it already had. It was last January that Enovate showed the ME7, the first electric car to take power from SSB. It was presented at the… Continue reading Is This Enovate ME7 The First Production Solid-State Battery Vehicle?
Mitsubishi to phase out diesel vehicles
TOKYO — Mitsubishi Motors has decided to stop developing new diesel engines, Nikkei has learned. The Japanese automaker will eliminate diesel versions of its key car models by the end of 2021 and significantly reduce the size of its existing diesel vehicle business. Diesel engine vehicles are falling out of favor, especially in Europe, with… Continue reading Mitsubishi to phase out diesel vehicles
Nidec’s charismatic founder still in search for a successor
TOKYO — Japanese motor maker Nidec is to hire Jun Seki, the vice chief operating officer at Nissan Motor, as a potential candidate for president. Seki is the third outside executive recruited by Shigenobu Nagamori, Nidec’s chairman and chief executive, as a candidate for the position. Like Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group’s president and chief executive, and Tadashi Yanai, president and… Continue reading Nidec’s charismatic founder still in search for a successor
Rivian shows off how its new EVs can ‘tank turn’
If you’ve ever wished that your car could turn on a dime, then the folks at Rivian have just given you a reason to buy one of their EVs. The company posted a video on Dec 25th, spotted by Electrek, showing off how its R1T and R1S electric vehicles can make tank-turns. At least, if… Continue reading Rivian shows off how its new EVs can ‘tank turn’