Over the past 15 years or so, car manufacturers have been showing increasing interest in new technologies – especially photonics-based developments – in all areas: from powertrain, through lighting to driver assistance and ...
Tags: Photonics, car manufacturers, lighting, smart displaying
World-industry leader Bosch is debuting a new battery technology for electric vehicles that might be available in five years as it acquired the U.S. start-up Seeo Inc. founded in Hayward, California. Bosch will combine Seeo’s ...
A backup camera is a special type of video camera that is produced specifically for the purpose of being attached to the rear of a vehicle to aid in backing up, and to alleviate the rear blind spot. Backup cameras have become increasingly ...
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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 ...
Tags: new-car sales, Hotai Motor
After spending two years on Beijing's monthly ballot for car license plates, seen as the best way of curbing traffic congestion in the capital, my neighbor Jiao Wen finally decided to go electric to avoid what was starting to look like long ...
Tags: EV Sector, electric vehicle
Avago Technologies Ltd (a supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for wireless, wireline, storage and industrial applications) has launched the ALM-2203 miniature highly integrated low-noise amplifier (LNA)-filter RFIC module, ...
Tags: LNA-Filter Module, Car Radio
Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
Tags: GM, Ignition Switches, Manufacturing
Infiniti has unveiled two cars, which included the 2016 QX50 luxury compact crossover, and the QX30 Concept car at the New York International Auto Show. The 2016 QX50 is equipped with 3.7-liter V6 engine capable of producing ...
Tags: LED, Infiniti QX50, Auto Parts
Honda has commenced testing of its new cars with automated and connected vehicle technology at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS) in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company will use the 'GoMentum Station' test-bed site at the ...
Tags: Honda, Auto Parts
Ford has announced that the company is using new techniques including eye tracking, to gather emotional and logical customer insights, to learn about how buyers visually discover new cars and trucks. According to Ford, a great-looking ...
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Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the company’s plans to release six new car models in the Russian market this year. The decision comes during a time when automakers including General Motors and Renault are cutting operations in the ...
Tags: Ford, car models, Russian market
Suzuki Motor has teased two concept cars dubbed iK-2 and iM-4 to be premiered at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show in March. According to Suzuki, iK-2 will be a compact sized car with 'Harmonised Force' theme. According to reports, the iK-2 ...
Tags: Geneva Show, Suzuki Motor, Concept Cars
Venezuela has hit an all time low in vehicle production, which fell to a 19,759 units representing a drop of 72.5%. Government's currency control has tied auto makers from importing essential components for the production of vehicles. ...
Tags: parts shortages, labor disputes, Auto
Mercedes-Benz is planning to introduce four new or redesigned sport utility vehicles in 2015, which according to reports is one of the rapidly growing segments in the vehicle market. The announcement came during the unveiling event of the ...
Tags: SUV Segment, vehicle market, Auto
Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
Tags: Detection Technology, Airbag, Auto