Category: Automotive

The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership

Buying a car is painful. Dealerships are the worst, and the options are endless. The rise of the Internet produced powerful tools for shoppers, but in the end, most buyers still have to trudge down to a car lot. For this series of articles, TechCrunch spoke with several founders and investors attempting to rethink car… Continue reading The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership

Citymapper is shutting down its efforts to reinvent the bus

City navigation and public transit app Citymapper is ending the program it called ‘Citymapper Ride,’ which has gone through a number of incarnations since its introduction back in 2017. Since then, the company has gone from running bus one route in London designed to supplement a need for customers that wasn’t currently well-addressed by existing… Continue reading Citymapper is shutting down its efforts to reinvent the bus

Uber unveils new Volvo self-driving vehicle in a step toward robotaxi service

Uber Advanced Technologies Group unveiled Wednesday a new generation of self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs that are designed and built to be fully driverless, a critical milepost for the company as it inches toward deployment of a robotaxi service. Volvo and Uber have developed several prototypes since entering into a joint engineering partnership in September 2016.… Continue reading Uber unveils new Volvo self-driving vehicle in a step toward robotaxi service

CORRECTED-Ford launches testing of new self-driving fleet in Detroit

FILE PHOTO: The Ford logo is seen on a vehicle at the New York Auto Show in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co’s majority owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Argo AI, launched its new fleet of self-driving test vehicles – Ford Fusion… Continue reading CORRECTED-Ford launches testing of new self-driving fleet in Detroit

Proton-Geely SUV X70 begins local assembly trials in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 (Xinhua) — Malaysian national carmaker Proton has begun local assembly trials of its X70 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) at its manufacturing plant in Tanjung Malim, the company said on Wednesday.
The vehicle, jointly manufactured with China's Geely, will be put together at Proton's new 1.2 billion ringgit (290 million U.S. dollars) assembly plant, which is currently in its final stages of completion, said Proton chairman Syed Faisal Albar who spoke during a signing ceremony at the plant.
“Proton aims to start the production of the X70 in Tanjung Malim in the second half of this year so we are working hard to ensure we hit the target,” he said, adding that it was significant this was achieved within two years of cooperation.
Syed Faisal also said Proton had seen its sales jump from the fourth place on the Malaysian market to the second during the second quarter of this year, attributing this to the introduction of the X70, with its advanced features, to th..

Michelin: Disclosure of the total number of voting rights and of the number of shares making up the Company’s capital

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          June 12th, 2019Disclosure of the total number of voting rights and of the number of sharesmaking up the Company’s capital(articles L.233-8 of the French Commercial Code and 223-16of the General Reglementation of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers)* Considering 12 833 treasury sharesAttachmentDéclaration AMF EN 2019_05_31 Go to Source

Launching Our Third-Generation Self-Driving Test Vehicle in the Motor City

Launching Our Third-Generation Self-Driving Test Vehicle in the Motor City Ford Motor CompanyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jun 12 By Peter Rander, President, Argo AI Earlier this month, I had the chance to visit Detroit and see the Motor City from a new perspective when I stepped into the backseat of one of our self-driving test vehicles. Our new Ford… Continue reading Launching Our Third-Generation Self-Driving Test Vehicle in the Motor City