FILE PHOTO: A Toyota logo is displayed at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor (7203.T) 87.6 million yuan ($12.5 million) for price-fixing on its premium Lexus cars in eastern Jiangsu province, according… Continue reading China fines Toyota 87.6 mln yuan over Lexus price-fixing
Tag: Mobility
Tata Motors partners Prakriti E-mobility for EV taxi in New Delhi
Tata Motors today announced a partnership with Prakriti E-Mobility to deploy 500 Tigor EVs in New Delhi. Prakriti E-Mobility is an EV based taxi service co-founded by Nimish Trivedi, Vikas Bansal and Rajeev Tiwari. Prakriti E-mobility will deploy the Tigor EVs on its app-based platform EVERA, which will serve in Delhi/NCR, reinforcing its commitment to service… Continue reading Tata Motors partners Prakriti E-mobility for EV taxi in New Delhi
LA may force Uber to use electric vehicles, mayor says
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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
Renault India plans e-mobility drive from 2021, one new ICE model every year
Renault India, a fully owned subsidiary of Renault SAS France says it will phase out of diesel vehicles in India and will come up with newer launches in the next 2-3 years, while expanding its dealership network to around 370 outlets by 2022. Before that, the company also plans to launch an EV in the… Continue reading Renault India plans e-mobility drive from 2021, one new ICE model every year
Travis Kalanick to leave Uber before January 2020
Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber at the Startup India meet in New Delhi in 2016 (Image credits: PIB) Uber Technologies has confirmed that Travis Kalanick will no longer be a part of the company’s Board of Directors after December 31, 2019. Kalanick co-founded Uber along with Garrett Camp in 2009 and was launched in 2010… Continue reading Travis Kalanick to leave Uber before January 2020
@Hyundai: What Does the Future Hold for Autonomous Vehicle Seats?
What does the future hold for autonomous vehicle seats? Here’s what the director of Hyundai Transys in Dongtan had to say. Many factors determine ride comfort, but car seats affect ride quality the most. Designers have to consider ergonomics, so they change the design and materials all the time. What does the future hold for… Continue reading @Hyundai: What Does the Future Hold for Autonomous Vehicle Seats?