Haartz announced a strategic alliance with Minth Group for the Chinese automotive market The new company, to be known as Haartz-Minth (Ningbo) Automotive Ltd., will focus on manufacturing automotive interior surface materials utilizing ...
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Swedish car company Volvo announced that it will be testing its autonomous vehicles in China with local drivers and on public roads in every day driving conditions. For this experiment, Volvo will use 100 autonomous cars. In the ...
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An innovative research project has received a share from UK government’s £38.2m prize to include Formula 1 technology to make family cars lighter, more fuel efficient and help plug-in vehicles to improve mileage. A consortium ...
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The Toyota Prius v is the only car which has got a good rating for headlights among 31 vehicles, according to a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). A vehicle's price tag does not guarantee the quality of ...
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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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Ford and Spotify have come together to create a new entertainment experience for FordPass members. Ford is introducing FordPass - a mobility platform that can reimagine the relationship between automakers and car owners. The mobility ...
Tags: Ford And Spofiy, FordPass, Entertainment Experience, Mobility platform
European auto component maker Gkn has developed a new eAxle module, which is currently used in supercars, for C-segment plug-in hybrid vehicles. The module will enable the automakers to offer plug-in hybrid option in C-segment vehicles ...
Tags: Gkn, eAxle module, Hybrid market, Super technology
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said that all its future vehicles that include Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems will feature sensor-fusion technology. FCA is one of the 19 automakers who agreed to install automatic emergency ...
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The FBI and US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have warned that motor vehicles are “increasingly vulnerable" to cyber attacks. The warning comes in the wake of a demonstration by researchers that showed how a ...
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Automobile majors have reached an agreement to include automatic emergency braking in almost all the vehicles in the US by September 2022. The agreement by 20 auto majors has been announced by the US Department of Transportation's ...
Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) regarding the development and manufacturing of innovative carbon fiber structural components for the automotive ...
INRIX announced that it had acquired OpenCar, a U.S.-based automotive software and services provider. The OpenCar purchase extends the successful INRIX cloud platform into the dashboard with a broad portfolio of third-party content and ...
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HARMAN has announced that it wants to further advance towards leading the connected car ecosystem by simplifying introduction and launch of vehicle-centric services from automakers. This news comes only two months after introducing the ...
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Leading automotive and transportation companies like General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault Nissan, Scania and Volvo Cars are supporting GSMA Embedded SIM Specification to help accelerate the growth of the connected car market. ...
Ford is conducting the industry's first autonomous vehicle tests in snow-covered environments – a major step in the company’s plan to bring fully autonomous vehicles to millions of customers worldwide. Unlike other major ...
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