Nissan debuted the Nissan LEAF Open Car, an open-air version of the new Nissan LEAF electric car, in Tokyo today. TOKYO (May 25, 2018) – Nissan showed the Nissan LEAF Open Car, an open-air version of the new Nissan LEAF, in Tokyo today. The 100% electric car was displayed at a forum to celebrate the… Continue reading Nissan debuts open-air version of the new Nissan LEAF
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Toyota and Suzuki Agree to Start Discussing Joint Projects for Technological Development, Vehicle Production, and Market Development
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) and Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki) have agreed today to start discussing new joint projects in the fields of technological development, vehicle production, and market development. After having concluded a memorandum of understanding toward business partnership on February 6, 2017, Toyota and Suzuki have been pursuing concrete forms of cooperation and have… Continue reading Toyota and Suzuki Agree to Start Discussing Joint Projects for Technological Development, Vehicle Production, and Market Development
Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans Now Look Way Less Ambitious Than They Once Were
A new report has detailed Apple’s crumbling ambitions to build a futuristic car, which have resulted in little more than a partnership with Volkswagen to make autonomous shuttles for the Apple campus. The New York Times piece presents the news that Apple (aapl) had been working with Volkswagen (vlkay) (whose codename at Apple is apparently… Continue reading Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans Now Look Way Less Ambitious Than They Once Were
UPDATE 3-Uber disabled emergency braking in self-driving car -U.S. agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Uber [UBER.UL] had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March after failing to identify the pedestrian, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators examine a… Continue reading UPDATE 3-Uber disabled emergency braking in self-driving car -U.S. agency
Apple’s Robot Cars Are Driving In the Slow Lane
A few years ago, I chatted to a senior Volkswagen AG manager who’d been involved in discussions with Apple Inc. about teaming up on autonomous vehicles. In essence, he said, Apple had asked the German autos giant to give it a stack of vehicle and driver behavior data. In return, VW would receive the self-driving system… Continue reading Apple’s Robot Cars Are Driving In the Slow Lane
OLX Group injects $89m into auto marketplace Frontier Car Group
May 24, 2018 Global online classified platform OLX Group has announced an investment of $89 million, through its early-stage investment arm OLX Ventures, in the C series funding round of online car marketplace Frontier Car Group (FCG), which has presence in six countries including Indonesia and Pakistan. FCG operates brands BeliMobilGue in Indonesia and CarFirst… Continue reading OLX Group injects $89m into auto marketplace Frontier Car Group
Volvo Cars to expand production following overwhelming demand for XC40
Volvo Cars to expand production following overwhelming demand for XC40 Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has received almost 80,000 orders for the new award-winning XC40 small SUV and is expanding production in Europe and China in order to meet demand. Production will be expanded at its Ghent manufacturing plant and Volvo Cars… Continue reading Volvo Cars to expand production following overwhelming demand for XC40
Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars
Two former Apple employees also recalled how their colleagues built a model of a sport-utility vehicle with four seats facing each other, which some employees tested by sitting inside, similar to a design Mercedes advertised in 2015. As recently as 2016, Apple planned to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build research and development… Continue reading Apple, Spurned by Others, Signs Deal With Volkswagen for Driverless Cars
Flight of the Valkyries.
The serially loss-making Aston Martin Holdings Ltd. is purring again. At least, that’s the conclusion you might draw from the few financial figures the luxury carmaker hands out to journalists each quarter. Revenue jumped by half last year thanks to swish new models such as the DB11. The private-equity and Kuwaiti-owned company’s 87 million pounds ($116 million) of… Continue reading Flight of the Valkyries.
Ricardo and Ford Otosan to develop new heavy duty CV transmissions
British-based Ricardo is working with Turkey-based Ford Otosan on the design and developments of a state-of-the-art family of transmissions. It will be manufactured in-house by Ford Otosan for use in future versions of Ford Trucks. Both companies’ engineers are working in close collaboration, with Ricardo providing technical consultancy service. Ricardo is assisting Ford Otosan as… Continue reading Ricardo and Ford Otosan to develop new heavy duty CV transmissions