German crash-test facility maker Messring has joined hands with TH Ingolstadt University to test for systems to be put in place for an active safety device capable of averting accident or ameliorate the severity of collisions. The duo is ...
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The BMW has pared off extra pounds from its 7 Series sedan, production of which has kicked off at its Dingolfing plant in Germany. With the series output of the new variant set to begin next month, the sedan boasts of innovations in ...
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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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Jaguar Land Rover is currently trialing a new connected car technology that will allow a vehicle to identify the location and severity of potholes, broken drains and manhole covers and further sharing this data in real-time via cloud with ...
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German automobile major Daimler, its car-sharing services arm car2go and components maker Bosch will join hands for a pilot project, making future cars capable of maneuvering automatically in a parking garage via smartphone application. ...
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Mercedes-Benz is trialing autonomous capabilities to arm its forthcoming E Class sedan, making it respond to road and chart its path through cameras and sensors. While the feature is yet to leap out of the testing phase, the stage is ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has inked an agreement with Chinese joint venture partner SAIC Motor for expanding its main Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) plant in Anting for electric vehicle production in China. The agreement was inked between ...
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German automobile major BMW has geared up to launch Dynamic Parking Prediction app to help drivers find vacant space for on-street parking. With a view to consolidating its position on the domain of connectivity between cars, the new ...
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Volkswagen of America, arm of German automobile major Volkswagen, has partnered with renewable energy and carbon offset services provider 3Degrees for carbon reduction drive in California and Texas, while pumping in $10m to boost its ...
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Automobile major Ford has geared up to produce around 40,000 extra units this year by cutting down its traditional two-week summer shutdown to one for its five manufacturing units in the US. The decision comes in the wake of customer ...
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Japanese automobile maker Toyota is looking into ways to adopt SmartDeviceLink (SDL), the open-source version of Ford AppLink, for its utilization in a sector wide solution towards integrating smartphone application with vehicles. Ford ...
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Automobile maker Ford will arm its 2016 Ford Escape and Fiesta vehicles with SYNC3 technology, a communications and entertainment system capable of responding to driver's commands. Ford SYNC, currently installed in more than 12 million ...
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Chinese firm for photovoltaic solutions Trina Solar has provided Osaka Sangyo University (OSU) Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) cells and modules for the latter's solar car project 'OSU-Model-S'. The OSU-Model-S, powered by solar energy ...
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Ford announced today the most powerful naturally aspirated road-going engine in its history. The all-new Ford 5.2-liter flat-plane crankshaft V8 will produce 526 horsepower and 429 lb.-ft. of torque in Shelby GT350 Mustang and Shelby GT350R ...
China's new 10-year new-energy vehicle development plan has more objective, practical goals than the one released in 2012, after NEV sales in the first quarter accounted for only 5 percent of this year's original target. The Ministry of ...