Tag: Volvo

Payne: Out on the town with stylish, expensive, masked-up Volvo Recharge twins

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Apple Car Director Heads to Luminar After Less Than a Year

(Bloomberg) — Luminar Technologies Inc. hired Christopher “CJ” Moore, a manager on Apple Inc.’s car project and a former director of Autopilot at Tesla Inc., to lead global software development. Most Read from Bloomberg Moore, who had joined Apple in August, will lead Luminar’s software team to develop autonomous safety features integrated with its lidar,… Continue reading Apple Car Director Heads to Luminar After Less Than a Year

Polestar partners StoreDot for fast charging tech

StoreDot has entered a strategic partnership with Polestar. As part of this new partnership and investment agreement, Polestar will investigate utilising StoreDot’s extreme fast charging silicon-dominant batteries for future Polestar cars. StoreDot is on track to begin mass producing its ‘100in5’ technology as early as 2024, achieving 100 miles of range in just five minutes… Continue reading Polestar partners StoreDot for fast charging tech

Berylls Strategy Advisors Releases Market Analysis of Global Trucking Industry

Findings highlight supply-chain challenges, growing demand, and more DETROIT, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Following several tumultuous years for the trucking industry, Berylls Strategy Advisors, a global management consulting firm focused on the automobility industry, has completed a Q1 2022 market analysis that reviews the challenges of 2021 while offering insights for the future. Looking… Continue reading Berylls Strategy Advisors Releases Market Analysis of Global Trucking Industry

Volvo trucks to incorporate SSAB’s fossil-free steel

A year after Volvo Cars teamed up with Swedish steel maker SSAB to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel, Volvo Trucks, will become the world’s first truck manufacturer to use fossil-free steel in its trucks. SSAB, a Sweden based steel company will be producing and providing the steel for Volvo’s heavy duty electric trucks along with… Continue reading Volvo trucks to incorporate SSAB’s fossil-free steel

STOREDOT, THE EXTREME FAST CHARGING BATTERY PIONEER, JOINS FORCES WITH POLESTAR IN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Meir Halberstam, StoreDot CFO “This is yet another significant vote of confidence in StoreDot and our market-leading extreme fast charging battery. This investment from one of the pioneering electric vehicle brands is an important step in our commercialization process. It will not only enable us to bring the ground-breaking ‘100in5’ batteries to market quicker, but… Continue reading STOREDOT, THE EXTREME FAST CHARGING BATTERY PIONEER, JOINS FORCES WITH POLESTAR IN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Volvo Trucks: First in the world to use fossil-free steel in its trucks

GÖTEBORG, Sweden, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As the world’s first truck manufacturer to do so, Volvo is now introducing fossil-free steel in its trucks. The steel is produced by the Swedish steel company SSAB and the heavy-duty electric Volvo trucks will be the first to include it. The steel from SSAB is produced using a… Continue reading Volvo Trucks: First in the world to use fossil-free steel in its trucks

Tesla, Unlike Other Carmakers, Reports Big Sales Increase

Tesla, the world’s leading electric car company, on Saturday reported a steep increase in worldwide sales in the first three months of the year as it overcame supply chain problems and moved closer to production levels on a par with established luxury carmakers like BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Tesla said it delivered 310,000 vehicles from January… Continue reading Tesla, Unlike Other Carmakers, Reports Big Sales Increase