Swedish auto-maker Volvo Cars has agreed to supply 24,000 autonomous cars to ride-sharing company Uber. Under the framework agreement, Volvo will provide Uber with its XC90 premium SUVs complete with autonomous driving technologies, from ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan is demonstrating its seamless autonomous mobility (SAM) system at CeBIT computer expo in Germany. The SAm system, which was developed from NASA, was initially demonstrated at this year’s CES. SAM works in ...
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BMW is planning to invest up to €500m on new car technologies over the next 10 years via its i Ventures division. The automaker will use the money to back startups working on areas including autonomous driving and digitalisation, and ...
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General Motors' personal mobility brand, Maven continues to expand and has started its business in Los Angeles, California. In nine months, Maven has grown to nine markets: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los ...
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Twitter has abruptly killed off its short video sharing service Vine. The app, which enabled looping clips limited to six seconds to be uploaded and shared on social media, will be discontinued in the coming months. The decision ...
Despite strong opposition from traditional taxi operators and some governments, Uber and Uber-type ride sharing services, have proven very popular amongst travellers, according to a University of Sydney Business School survey. The ...
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Google is reportedly planning to launch a ride sharing service in San Francisco, California later this year in order to compete with Uber and Lyft. If this pilot project is successful, Google could expand it further. In May this year, ...
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car2go, a car-sharing service and a subsidiary of Daimler Group announced that it will start its operations in Brussels, Belgium from October 2016. The world's largest free-floating car-sharer starts up business with 300 vehicles in an ...
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has launched a wholly owned technology startup named as InMotion, to build apps and develop on-demand services to overcome travel and transport issues. The startup will begin real-time testing of services such as ...
BMW has launched a new car-sharing service in Seattle called, “ReachNow”, similar to its European service, “DriveNow”. With this service, US customers will be able to choose from a range of services from bespoke ...
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YouTube is set to launch a paid version of its video-sharing service called YouTube Red next week. The new service charges subscribers 10-US dollars per month and allows them to skip ads to go directly to YouTube programming. Paid ...
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Uber has announced a partnership with a major Chinese auto maker. The San Francisco-based company says it will work with Guangzhou Automobile Group in areas including investment, sales, marketing and promoting new energy vehicles. Terms ...
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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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Ford Motor Company will begin making its London-based GoDrive car-sharing service available to the public, offering flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout the city. ...
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Toyota Motor has partnered with Park24 to launch trial car sharing service using its ultra-compact three-wheeled electric vehicle, i-Road, in Tokyo from 10 April to end of September this year. During the trial, the i-Road will be ...
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