Last month Lyft signed an agreement with Waymo to operate ten autonomous vehicles on the Lyft booking platform. All will drive on the roads of Phoenix, Arizona. The robo-taxi offer will be identified as an option when app users go to book a ride.
Rivian, a Michigan-based EV startup, has benefited from two very important investments recently. After a contribution of USD $700m following fundraising led by Amazon this past February, Ford swooped in this past April to pour $500m into Rivian.
Dyson, well known for their vacuum cleaners and public-washroom hand dryers, is now sniffing around the EV market. James Dyson says his company has been “researching motors, batteries, aerodynamics, vision systems and robotics for 22 years.
Earlier this month, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles sold diversified parts-making subsidiary Magneti Marelli to CK Holdings (parent company of Calsonic Kansei) for USD $6.5 billions. Now the two companies’ meld is beginning to take shape.
The companies’ combined activities
Gilles Le Borgne, PSA Group’s longtime chief of engineering and the director of many of the automaker’s platform and vehicle projects, will be leaving the company for personal reasons. He will be replaced by Nicolas Morel, now Senior VP for vehicle
The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are saying automakers must do more to protect back-seat passengers from death and serious injury in severe crashes. The IIHS are using data from frontal crashes that result in injuries to back-seat
ZF Friedrichshafen have bought a majority share of 2GetThere, a MaaS (Mobility as a Service) provider founded in 1984 and based in Utrecht, Netherlands. They develop and operate driverless passenger and cargo transport systems in cities including
Ford, through their Smart Mobility subsidiary, have bought their partners Autonomic and TransLoc to help Ford’s new mobility business take shape.
TransLoc build technology to support microtransit services, including real-time tracking,
After a year of testing with 1,600 users, four parking robots will now park passenger cars at Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport in France. The objectives are to facilitate travelers’ parking while optimising parked-car placement to save up to 50% of space.
Buyers in some of the world’s biggest car markets regard leather as the signature of premium luxury in car interiors. It’s expensive and relatively difficult to work with, though, so automakers and suppliers have long tried to differentiate with leatherlike alternative
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