Ride-hailing company Lyft has reportedly raised $500m in a new round of funding that valued the company at about $7.5bn. Uber's rival has been trying to raise investment for some time to enter new markets. In the first quarter of this ...
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Volvo Cars has unveiled the new XC60 premium SUV at the Geneva Motor Show. The new car is replacement of the company's original XC60, the mid-sized SUV, which sold nearly a million units globally. The new SUV features a City Safety ...
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Verso has announced strategic initiatives to reduce costs and improve its overall operating and financial performance. The US-based printing paper and specialty paper producer has deviced three strategic initiatives, which also includes ...
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Hannover, Germany — Daimler Trucks kicked off the IAA international Commercial Vehicle Show by focusing on the future of the urban city, with the unveiling of its Urban eTruck. It also highlighted and expanded upon its recent ...
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Swedish automaker, Volvo has started, Drive Me, a public autonomous driving experiment in the city of Gothenburg. The autonomous Volvo XC90 SUV was finalized in Volvo Cars’ special manufacturing facility in Torslanda and is the ...
Daimler has trialed a semi-autonomous Mercedes-Benz bus on a 20km drive through Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Future Bus undertook a manned trip via a section of a bus rapid transit (BRT) line at speeds of about 70km/h using the ...
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has revealed his second part of his self-titled masterplan, which intends to take the automaker to the next level. Musk in his official Tesla blog started by reminding about this first Master Plan where he ...
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DENSO International America Inc of Southfield, MI, USA (a subsidiary of Japan-based automotive technology, system and component supplier DENSO Corp) has invested in TriLumina Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures and integrates ...
Honda’s luxury vehicle division Acura has unveiled its new SUV, the 2017 Acura MDX with sport hybrid powertrain and upgraded features. The new SUV, unveiled at the 2016 New York International Auto Show is powered by a 3.0 liter ...
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Fully-functional self-driving vehicles may still take time to hit the roads but customers in the UK are buying cars with self-activating safety systems. A recent study conducted by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) ...
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According to several reports, Uber is planning to buy or has already placed a huge order to buy Mercedes-Benz S-class cars. Reports suggest that the ride-hailing company is planning to have fleet of self-driving cars by 2020. With this ...
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Nissan has announced that it will produce Qashqai crossover with semi-autonomous driving technology at its Sunderland plant in the UK. This will be the first car from Nissan that will feature partial self-driving technology. The ...
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Ford will begin testing self-driving cars on public roads in California next year. Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will take to the streets after the company secured a permit to begin testing the vehicles on public roads in ...
Swedish automaker Volvo has unveiled S90, the sedan version of its previously released XC90 SUV. The automaker, which is known for manufacturing SUVs is trying to revamp its entire lineup by 2019, and enter into the sedan segment with the ...
Chinese Internet services firm Baidu is planning to enter the driverless car segment later this year with its own version, marrying computer technology with artificial intelligence. The self-driving car, with which the web behemoth ...
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