Ford and Google have forged strategic partnership to accelerate the vehicle maker’s transformation and reinvent the connected vehicle experience.
The automaker has also named Google Cloud its preferred cloud provider to leverage Google's xpertise in data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).
Jim Farley, President and CEO of Ford, said, "As Ford continues the most profound transformation in our history...
Goodyear Ventures, the venture capital arm of tire major Goodyear, has added Starship Technologies to its investment portfolio.
The six-year old Starship Technologies builds and operates a network of self-driving robots, which carry and deliver packages, food and groceries and directly to customers. The company's electrically driven, autonomous robots are completing thousands of deliveries every day and have traveled millions...
The annual budget presented by the Indian government on February 1 has many reasons for automotive industry to celebrate. An analysis by Jaishankar Jayaramiah, Editor, Automotive Lead.
The highlight of the budget relating to auto industry is that the union finance minister Nirmala Seetharaman announcing a vehicle scrappage policy, which is seen as a major boost to the Indian auto...
General Motors, which is the largest automaker in the United States, has announced its plans to be carbon neutral by 2040.
The company said it has committed to setting science-based targetsⁱⁱ to achieve carbon neutrality. It has also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5⁰C, an urgent call to action from a global coalition of UN agencies, business and industry...
Citroën India has launched a report on comfort - ‘Comfortology’, underlining idea of comfort in India through a survey.
The objective of the survey was to understand Indians’ view of comfort, where they feel comfortable, what makes them comfortable, how that differs between different age groups, and how that has changed during COVID-19 pandemic. It was also conducted to find...
TI Fluid Systems has announced that it will provide a new generation of plastic fuel tank design capable of meeting the stringent pressure demands within a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV).
This was recently launched in volume production with Volkswagen China on the Passat and Magotan Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) models, with a planned adoption across a wider range of...
Busworld Europe is brimming with confidence as far as its Brusells Expo is concerned, as the event scheduled to be held from 9 to 14 October 2021 has already received positive response from stakeholders.
According to Busworld Europe, the event has registered 303 exhibitors and sold 75 per cent of its total space.
Says Busworld Europe director Mieke Glorieux, “We are...
Aicas, AVL and Citos have joined Automotive Grade Linux, as a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open source platform.
AGL is an open source project at the Linux Foundation that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to accelerate the development and adoption of a fully open, shared software platform for all technology in the vehicle, from infotainment to...
Balan Engineering, a company based out of Bengaluru, has launched six variants of Electric Vehicles aimed at benefitting individuals and companies focussed on Cargo transport, Agriculture, Civic Amenities amongst others.
Minister for Industries Jagdish Shettar unveiled the vehicles at an event at Hotel Lalith Ashok Bengaluru. Sadananda Gowda, Minister for Chemicals & Fertilisers, Govt. of India and Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble...
Veoneer, Inc. and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have inked an agreement under which the companies will collaborate on the delivery of scalable Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Collaborative and Autonomous Driving (AD) solutions.
With this agreement, the automotive technology company and the tech company's intended collaboration was first communicated on August 27, 2020.
Jan Carlson, Chairman, President & CEO, Veoneer said, "the...
