Volkswagen has launched its own mobility services company, Moia, which will focus primarily on autonomous vehicles. The move will allow the German firm to compete with Uber and Lyft. Moia will connect the car with the new mobility ...
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Alpiq and Groupe E, together with their partners, are merging their charging networks for electric cars. This will offer customers access to more than 300 charging stations in Switzerland. The joint network, which will continue to be ...
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Volkswagen has unveiled its Transform 2025+ strategy, further detailing the company's plans for the decade ahead. This plan aims to reduce the capex ratio and the development cost ratio to a competitive level in the next few years – ...
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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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Toyota Motor will set up a mobility services platform (MSPF) to collaborate with several service providers, as well as telematics insurance. Based on the proliferation and popularity of mobility services, like car-sharing; the MSPF will ...
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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Volkswagen is systematically moving ahead with its transition to the mobility world of tomorrow initiated by the "TOGETHER – Strategy 2025" program for the future. The Group presented its next steps on the road to becoming a ...
nuTonomy, a developer of software for self-driving cars, and South-east Asian ride-hailing service Grab have partnered to expand public trial of on-demand self-driving car service in Singapore. The trial will give select Grab users a ...
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance is purchasing French software development firm, Sylpheo, to speed up the expansion of its connected vehicle and mobility services programs. The acquisition was announced by Ogi Redzic, Alliance senior vice ...
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The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Volkswagen Group will collaborate over the next three years to jointly develop innovative solutions for making urban mobility more environmentally-friendly, safer, more reliable and more ...
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Ford is planning to mass produce driverless cars and introduce them in commercial operation in a ride-hailing service by 2021. To help speed up development of self-driving cars, Ford is investing in or collaborating with four startups on ...
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Ford Motor and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working together on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services for ride-hailing and ...
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International technology company Continental is partnering with the US Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT)'s Smart City Challenge. Continental has initially pledged at least $1m to the winning city to provide improved safety and ...
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Volkswagen has adopted a new strategy to become a lead in sustainable mobility by bringing out more than 30 new e-vehicles by 2025. In order to achieve these goals, the Board of Management - with the approval of the Supervisory Board - ...
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About 21 million autonomous vehicles will be sold globally by 2035, with the US taking the lead, according to a new projection from IHS Automotive. Deployment in the US will start with various autonomous vehicles in 2020, which will ...
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