Ford is planning to invest $1.8bn over the next five years in China to boost its research and development efforts in the field of smartphone connectivity, autonomous driving and other smart car features. China is a major market for ...
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In difficult weather conditions such as rain, fog, and snow, the LEDriving fog light family from Osram helps improve visibility for drivers. In addition to the familiar LEDriving FOG and LEDriving F1 products, Osram now for the first time ...
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Google has hired former Hyundai boss John Krafcik to spearhead its self-driving car project. He has been working as the president of online car shopping service TrueCar since April 2014 and earlier held management position in Ford. ...
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China-based internet entrepreneurs and financial investors, including the likes of Tencent and Hillhouse Capital, are supporting NextEV to create a competitor to US electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors. In that direction, the promoters ...
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Japanese automobile major Suzuki Motor will buy back the 19.9% share it divested to German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) after the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce ironed out their feud. Suzuki had ...
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Ten automobile manufacturers were sued by consumers in the US, who have alleged that the risk posed by carbon monoxide poisoning was concealed in over five million vehicles armed with keyless ignitions, reportedly claiming 13 lives so far. ...
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Daimler is considering the possibility of tie-ups with Apple and Google as carmakers realize that building next-generation autos entail inputs from telecoms and software experts. The rise of self-driving and connected cars has made ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US has sought details from automaker Volkswagen and Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata about the explosion of a side airbag in a 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan. Volkswagen was not ...
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The Volkswagen Group wants to cut energy consumption. The target is 25 per cent less by 2018. To help achieve this, a pump control system from Grundfos has been installed at the production plant in Braunschweig. The sun reflects in the ...
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After hitting a 10-year same-month record in June, new-car sales in Taiwan continued on an uptrend in July, especially in the last 10 days of the month, to 46,800 units, up 13.5 percent from the previous month, or month-on-month (MoM), also ...
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For the 2016 model year, Volkswagen is offering a host of driver assistance features that were only previously available on the premium Touareg SUV—and adding some new ones that truly democratize driver assistance for the compact ...
US automotive giant General Motors (GM) will join forces with its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC) to develop a line of Chevrolet vehicles to cater to fast-growing emerging markets, pumping in $5bn over the next several ...
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German automotive giant Volkswagen (VW) has for the first time edged past Japanese carmaker Toyota to rise to the numero uno position in automobile sales during the first half of the current year. VW managed to sell 5.04 million units ...
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German automobile major Volkswagen has armed its midsize sedan Passat with a head-up display capable of providing relevant trip data and alerts to the driver’s primary vision field. The display screen has a slide-out pane which ...
Global automakers will manufacture fewer vehicles in China this year than they are able to because of slowing demand in the world's largest auto market, a reversal after years of rushing to build factories. The average level of capacity ...
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