Škoda will be the first Volkswagen Group brand to unveil a battery-powered SUV—the Enyaq—based on the automaker’s modular e-drive (MEB) platform. The Enyaq is to be shown on 1 September in Prague, three weeks ahead of the presentation of VW’s ID4 SUV. Škoda will start production of the SUV later this year at their plant…
Motion sickness is a difficulty that autonomous driving will face. It usually takes place when passengers look inside the vehicle and thus see a fixed environment, while their bodies feel movement. Reading or interacting with a smartphone, for example, while riding in a car can cause motion sickness. Nevertheless, it is important that passengers in…
IMSE integrates printed circuitry and discrete electronic components inside plastics with a seamless structure and high design freedom. Electronic functions with ambient lighting in 3D Overhead Console (Image: TactoTek) The core business of TactoTek, headquartered in Oulu, Finland, is design & manufacturing of 3D smart in-mold electronics. The pictured overhead console is a single-part construction…
Cadillac, GM’s luxury brand, will launch its first electric crossover, the Lyriq, to start sales in 2023. It will come behind GMC, which is getting the 2022 Hummer EV SUT, an electric pickup that goes into production in the fall of 2021, and which will be followed later by an SUV. The Lyriq concept was…
(a designer’s look at our mobility-centric culture) 5. Urban invaders Following the demographic paradox and the industrial miracle of the 19th Century, the automobile became the prodigy of 20th and the badge of every social and economic narrative. The complexity of mobile trajectories by the mid-1920s was such that a new phenomenon could be identified.…
BMW’s new technology automates the process of switching to electric-only power when a BMW plug-in hybrid vehicle enters a defined area of a city. In the UK, it will initially cover the TfL Congestion Charge/ULEZ zone in London and the planned Clean Air Zone in Birmingham, due to be implemented in 2021. But it will…
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