Honda will receive assistance from General Motors and Cruise for its planned self-driving mobility service (MaaS) in Japan. In a recent statement, Honda confirmed that Cruise will send its self-driving test vehicles to Japan and begin local development of them later this year. The Japanese car manufacturer has also confirmed that its self-driving mobility service […]
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An Israeli startup by the name of StoreDot has unveiled innovative battery cells that can be charged in just 5 minutes with plans to roll them out into electric vehicles. The engineering samples produced by the company replace the graphite used in the anode of traditional battery cells with metalloid nanoparticles that are said to […]
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When someone like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starts making predictions left and right, the best course of action is to sit down and listen. His company is deeply involved with the automotive industry, working with the likes of Mercedes, Audi, VW and Hyundai on various platforms and systems. In fact, you know that fancy Virtual […]
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Geely has been hard at work lately teaming up with various tech powerhouses in order to better position themselves in the automotive sector going forward. Just this month they joined forces with Chinese search giant Baidu in order to build electric vehicles, before forming a joint venture with Foxconn that will allow them to build […]
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Microsoft is joining GM, Honda and other institutional investors for a combined new equity investment of more than $2 billion in Cruise, the San Francisco-based autonomous start-up. Their common goal, according to Reuters, is to accelerate the development and commercialization of self-driving vehicles. After the markets opened, GM shares continued to go up, trading at […]
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Chelmsford Garden Village, a housing development near London, is preparing itself for a future with autonomous cars by removing the driveways from its homes. Or, at least, that’s what they’re planning to do eventually. The homes will be built with driveways, but there’s a plan in place to take them away if and when autonomous […]
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Imagine yourself out for a jog or riding a bicycle on a particularly cold day, and then having to get in your car immediately afterwards. It can easily result in the entire cabin steaming up, which can make you late if you’re in a hurry to get somewhere. However, if your car is a latest-generation […]
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Volvo Cars is teaming up with Gothenburg, Sweden to turn Scandinavia’s largest port city into a model for green cities of the future. The project, called Gothenburg Green City, is being planned, in part, by Volvo. That will mean electrified mobility from day one. It will also one day mean autonomous robotaxis operated by Volvo’s […]
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Anyone who has driven in snowy climates knows that one of the most important things is to know how to retain control of your car in those treacherous conditions. That’s what has led researchers at the Toyota Research Institute and at Stanford University’s Dynamic Design Lab to turn to professional drifters and drivers to learn […]
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New rules have been issued that will allow the manufacturers of autonomous vehicles to bypass the crash standards required by traditional passenger vehicles. The rules, announced by the outgoing Trump administration but yet to be finalized or implemented, will exempt automated vehicles designed to exclusively carry goods, rather than people, from certain crash standards. The […]
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