The Bentayga hybrid is the brand’s first electrified model New company CEO admits the firm needs to accelerate its electrification plans – and hints full electric car is due within five years New Bentley boss Adrian Hallmark has acknowledged that the brand was not as prepared for future technology as it could have been –… Continue reading Bentley boss: we could have been more prepared for electrification
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Dana Partners with Workhorse Group on City Delivery Vehicle with New Spicer® Electrified™ Integrated Electric Axle
LONG BEACH, Calif., May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, Dana Incorporated (NYSE: DAN) and Workhorse Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WKHS) announced the design, development, and production of a city delivery vehicle featuring Dana’s Spicer® Electrified™ integrated e-Drive axle. Ohio-based Workhorse is a technology company focused on providing sustainable and cost-effective… Continue reading Dana Partners with Workhorse Group on City Delivery Vehicle with New Spicer® Electrified™ Integrated Electric Axle
Bentley boss acknowledges brand could have been more prepared for electrification
New Bentley boss Adrian Hallmark has acknowledged that the brand was not as prepared for future technology as it could have been and is forging ahead with a revised strategy to ensure Bentley is at the forefront of electrification. Since starting his position early this year, having previously been at the company as board member… Continue reading Bentley boss acknowledges brand could have been more prepared for electrification
Inside TickTock’s Consumer Robot Product Explorations
Image: Ryan Hickman/TickTock Advertisement Editor’s Picks This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. We started TickTock in March 2017, knowing that robotics was about to have a breakthrough, and it was going to start with mobility.… Continue reading Inside TickTock’s Consumer Robot Product Explorations
Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers
Lyft is teaming up with Udacity to find talent for its Level 5 autonomous driving engineering team. The partnership entails a challenge designed to identify the best candidates in Udacity’s self-driving car engineer nanodegree program. Called the Lyft Perception Challenge, the idea is to test problem-solving skills around perception for autonomous vehicles. The competition, which… Continue reading Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers
Bentley Continental GT
Is it fair to define the Bentley Continental GT as a modern-day icon? On the basis that rivals chiefly built in Maranello and Gaydon have persistently kept it from the top rung of Autocar road test rankings for super-GT cars, you could convincingly argue that it is not. Then again, few other machines at the… Continue reading Bentley Continental GT
Regulus Cyber launches with a technology to secure autonomous vehicles
Over the next 20 years the autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow into a $700 billion industry as robots take over nearly every aspect of mobility. One of the key arguments for this shift away from manually operated machines is that they offer greater safety thanks to less risk of human error. But as… Continue reading Regulus Cyber launches with a technology to secure autonomous vehicles
Mobility around the world — Acquisitions, Investments and IPOs
Mobility around the world — Acquisitions, Investments and IPOs Before we publish here, we publish on our website. Check out the most important mobility news globally on a weekly basis. This is what happened last week: BlaBlaCar buys “Less” for undisclosed amount French startup BalBlaCar acquires another French carpooling platform for an undisclosed amount. The younger company “Less” focuses… Continue reading Mobility around the world — Acquisitions, Investments and IPOs
Continental: Free Trade Is a Necessity for Affordable Mobility for All
Automated driving, robot taxis, artificial intelligence, cyber security: Continental is holistically paving the way for the mobility of the future Electric motors vs. combustion engines: CEO Dr. Elmar Degenhart warns against the policy of “forcing solutions that are not economically viable” at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of the DAX company Total sales have grown more… Continue reading Continental: Free Trade Is a Necessity for Affordable Mobility for All
Toyota Motor North America Reports April 2018 Sales
PLANO, Texas, May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) today reported April 2018 sales of 192,348 vehicles, a decrease of 4.7 percent from April 2017 on a volume basis. With two less selling days in April 2018 compared to April 2017, sales were up 3.2 percent on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. … Continue reading Toyota Motor North America Reports April 2018 Sales