Ford Forms New Team Dedicated To Electric Vehicle Production
Ford Motor Co has put together a team to accelerate global development of electric vehicles, whose mission will be to “think big” and “make quicker decisions,” an executive of the company announced on...
View ArticleCyanogen Changes Names And Now Focusing On Self-Driving Cars
The cunning new plan is being led by Lior Tal, the former chief operating officer who took over as CEO last year when the outfit’s cunning plan to kill off Android went tits up.
View ArticleShell Teaming Up With Carmakers For Ultra-fast EV Charging Stations
Royal Dutch Shell has teamed up with top automakers to deploy ultra-fast chargers on Europe’s highways, stealing a march on rivals in the race to remove one of the biggest obstacles facing the electric...
View ArticleWaymo To Launch Self-driving Trucks Pilot In Atlanta
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle arm of Alphabet Inc confirmed that it will launch a self-driving trucks pilot in Atlanta to transport cargo for Google’s data centers. The announcement comes two days...
View ArticleMobileye Gets Major Self-driving Car Deal
Mobileye, Intel Corp’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has inked a deal to supply eight million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters....
View ArticleVolkswagen Open To Partnerships That Will Deepen Autonomous Vehicle Offering
Volkswagen Chief Financial Officer Frank Witter is opening the door for the carmaker was to forge deeper alliances with outside companies, particularly in the area of autonomous driving, where Google’s...
View ArticleFord, Baidu Team Up On Self-driving Car Initiative In China
Ford Motor Co and Baidu Inc officially debuted a two-year project earlier this week to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop...
View ArticleBMW, Daimler Deepen Alliances On Self-Driving Cars
Daimler and BMW strengthened their collaboration by agreeing to share spiraling development costs for highly automated driving technologies, even as each carmaker pursues separate efforts to develop...
View ArticleVolkswagen Going To Clouds With Microsoft
The Volkswagen Automotive Cloud will be created from scratch, powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud and IoT Edge platform. Microsoft cloud services such as Azure IoT, PowerBI and Skype will be at the...
View ArticleStudy Reveals Americans Still Fear Self-driving Cars
Seven in 10 Americans will gladly steer clear of self-driving cars. The portion of Americans who fear autonomous vehicles—71 percent in the American Automobile Association’s latest survey—is virtually...
View ArticleIs Ford Stepping Away From Self-Driving Cars
It now seems that companies are admitting that expectations for self-driving cars were perhaps too high. Uber predicted earlier this week that its own fleet of autonomous cars would have a long wait...
View ArticleBMW, Jaguar Agree To Joint Venture On Electric Car Parts
BMW and Jaguar Land Rover confirmed that they will jointly develop electric motors, transmissions and power electronics, unveiling yet another industry alliance designed to lower the costs of...
View ArticleNVidia,Volvo Team Up On Self-driving System
Sweden’s AB Volvo is joining forces with Nvidia to develop artificial intelligence used in self-driving trucks, in a boost for the U.S. chipmaker that was ditched by Tesla last year. The agreement...
View ArticleBig Tech Finding New Sources Of Revenue In Car Technology
Technology innovators have transformed smartphones and televisions into continuous fountains of revenue. Now, big tech wants to work with automakers to do the same thing for your car. With the...
View ArticleChargePoint Expanding Charge Stations Across US At Truck Stops
A leading electric vehicle charging network and a trade group that represents America’s travel plazas and truck stops confirmed that they plan to leverage $1 billion through public and private funding...
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