Tag: Electric vehicles

NVIDIA will power Continental’s self-driving car platform

Rick Wilking / Reuters German automotive components producer Continental has partnered with NVIDIA to produce a full-scale self-driving car platform. It will use the GPU maker’s autonomous vehicle hardware and software setup, DRIVE, to make a unified platform that prospective automakers and others can build their own self-driving cars upon. NVIDIA will provide the Xavier… Continue reading NVIDIA will power Continental’s self-driving car platform

Sondors’ three-wheeled EV is affordable and stylish

Starting a new car company is tough. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. Then Tesla pulled it off. As we transition from the internal combustion engine to electrification, startups and even a few established players are taking a chance on EVs. Building a three-wheeled autocycle isn’t revolutionary, exactly. But making an EV starting at $10,000, with… Continue reading Sondors’ three-wheeled EV is affordable and stylish

Toyota’s Way Changed the World’s Factories. Now the Retool

Over decades, Toyota Motor Corp. built a corporate culture that was the envy of the manufacturing world. Now the auto industry’s most-emulated company is overhauling the way it brings its vaunted production system to every corner of the business. The automaker last month created a single group, staffed with 200 employees, to manage the Toyota Production System,… Continue reading Toyota’s Way Changed the World’s Factories. Now the Retool

A New Report Predicts That Nearly the Majority of Public Buses Will Be Electric By 2025

Triple the Electric Buses The total number of electric buses servicing the public will more than triple by 2025, according to a new report released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). In 2017, there were 386,000 electric buses in service. The BNEF report predicts that number will balloon to about 1.2 million in the next seven… Continue reading A New Report Predicts That Nearly the Majority of Public Buses Will Be Electric By 2025

China Digest: Gay dating app Blued, new energy vehicle firm SKIO secure funding

Chinese technology companies continue to secure funding from venture capital and private equity firms. The latest recipients are gay dating app Blued and new energy vehicle firm SKIO Matrix. Blued secures $100m in Series D Beijing-headquartered Blued, one of the world’s largest social network and dating apps for the LGBT community, has closed its Series… Continue reading China Digest: Gay dating app Blued, new energy vehicle firm SKIO secure funding

Ford CEO Jim Hackett on the future of computing, cities, and self-driving cars

In May 2017, Ford announced that it had replaced its CEO, Mark Fields, who had been with the company since 1989, with Jim Hackett. Despite being on Ford’s board since 2013, Hackett was probably best known for leading Steelcase, the large office-furniture company, for decades and turning around its fortunes, as well as for working… Continue reading Ford CEO Jim Hackett on the future of computing, cities, and self-driving cars

Tesla Model 3 Slammed By Engineering Firm For Manufacturing Flaws– “Like A Kia In The 90s”

Tesla’s Model 3 received some extremely harsh criticism from a Detroit engineering firm that takes automobiles apart and reviews them. CEO of the company, Sandy Munro, says that the new mass-market electric vehicle has so many production flaws that it’s “like a Kia in the 90s.” “I don’t understand how it got to this point.… Continue reading Tesla Model 3 Slammed By Engineering Firm For Manufacturing Flaws– “Like A Kia In The 90s”