Imagine a tiny city where you control everything that happens on the streets. You manage how many cars zip down the roads and how fast they are going. You dictate how many cyclists are on a roundabout or whether they follow the road rules. The “weather” around the vehicle can change multiple times a day… Continue reading The Waymo Driver’s training regimen: How structured testing prepares our self-driving technology for the real world
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@Toyota: Sensing Is Believing
More sensitive hands to serve with TRI’s Soft Bubble Gripper For over half a century, visions of the future have featured robots serving as domestic assistants. But despite many years of development in the robotics field, except for a few elementary tasks like floor vacuuming, the dream of the domestic robot remains unfulfilled. Toyota Research… Continue reading @Toyota: Sensing Is Believing
Swansway Garages acquires Inchcape Volkswagen dealership in Oldham
Inchcape has continued its recent string of UK dealership disposals with the sale of its Oldham Volkswagen car franchise to Swansway Garages. Confirmation of the sale comes just a month after AM reported that Arden was poised to acquire Inchcape’s Cooper BMW and Mini car dealerships in Tunbridge Wells in the latest of a series… Continue reading Swansway Garages acquires Inchcape Volkswagen dealership in Oldham
Nuvve Corporation’s Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Platform Enables New Phase of Project Providing Grid Services in Japan
Past demonstrations in 2018 and 2019 using Nuvve’s V2G GIVe™ software platform have proved the feasibility of providing balancing power necessary for controlling frequency and adjusting the balance of demand and supply through multiple PHEV batteries when charging. In this new project phase, Toyota Tsusho Corporation will demonstrate the grid services with Toyota Motor Corporation vehicles… Continue reading Nuvve Corporation’s Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Platform Enables New Phase of Project Providing Grid Services in Japan
@Toyota: Toyota Launches Used Vehicle Online Store in Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation works to develop and manufacture innovative, safe and high-quality products and services that create happiness by providing mobility for all. We believe that true achievement comes from supporting our customers, partners, employees, and the communities in which we operate. Since our founding over 80 years ago in 1937, we have applied our… Continue reading @Toyota: Toyota Launches Used Vehicle Online Store in Japan
@niche: Three Layers: The auto industry’s radical future structure000065
By: Daniel BarelCo-Founder and CEO of REE Rapid growth in electrification is driving a seismic shift in how the automotive industry builds cars. But an even more fundamental change is taking place thanks to e-mobility, writes Daniel Barel, Co-Founder and CEO of electric vehicle platform maker REE When Henry Ford started building cars, his factory… Continue reading @niche: Three Layers: The auto industry’s radical future structure000065
Nissan’s record loan guarantee spotlights lack of transparency
TOKYO — The Japanese government’s de facto guarantee of a record 130 billion yen ($1.22 billion) in emergency loans to Nissan Motor underscores a lack of transparency over coronavirus-related rescue programs for businesses. The Development Bank of Japan extended over 1.88 trillion yen in crisis response loans between March and July as the virus damaged the national and… Continue reading Nissan’s record loan guarantee spotlights lack of transparency
@VW Group: Porsche tackles Road Atlanta from pole position
Qualifying Driving the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR, Nick Tandy from Great Britain turned the fastest lap in the GTLM class at Road Atlanta setting a time of 1:16.167 minutes. His works driver teammate Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium planted the second works-RSR with the number 912 on position four. With this, Tandy added to his… Continue reading @VW Group: Porsche tackles Road Atlanta from pole position
Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with VW CEO, gets preview of ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a special meeting with VW CEO Hebert Diess where he got a preview of the ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars. As we have been reporting over the last few days, Musk has been in Germany to visit a few projects related to Tesla. Musk visited several German officials and they… Continue reading Tesla CEO Elon Musk meets with VW CEO, gets preview of ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars
Bill Ford: We have to keep work-at-home healthy for employees – Detroit Free Press
For Bill Ford Jr., workdays and weekends have begun to blend together. Pretty much — he said — like everybody else lately. Ford plays a key role in running a multibillion-dollar global automotive company founded by his great-grandfather. The pace has always been fierce. But this is dealing with life during a pandemic. “I’m still going to… Continue reading Bill Ford: We have to keep work-at-home healthy for employees – Detroit Free Press