Velodyne Lidar have entered an agreement by which Sendai Nikon, a Nikon subsidiary, will manufacture lidar sensors for Velodyne with plans to start mass production in the second half of this year.
Toyota, Denso, and the SoftBank Vision Fund will invest USD $1bn in Uber’s Advanced Technologies.Toyota and Denso will together invest $667m, while SVF will invest $333m. Toyota previously invested $500m in Uber last August.
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
Valeo’s sales fell 0.8% in the first quarter amid sharper declines in vehicle production in some of their major markets. Revenue fell to €4.84bn in 1Q-2019 as global auto production dropped 7%.
At an event organized by the SIA (the French Society of Automotive Engineers), Catherine Girard from Renault and Paul-Antoine Chafangeon from PSA gave a talk on Evolution of Automobile Markets in Europe and Around the World. This study started 10 years ago, and features an annual update.
The following four scenarios were analysed along two axes, using a consumer-demand model: GDP growth and environmental constraints:
Green constraints: low fuel price with tax incentives to faster alternative green technologies
Green growth: high fuel price with strong tax incentives to faster alternative green technologies
Stagnation: low fuel price with soft vehicle taxation
Liberal world: High petrol price with moderate tax increase
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Evolution of battery cost in four analysed scenarios |
Hella have signed new coöperation agreements at Auto Shanghai. CEO Dr. Rolf Breidenbach calls China one of his company’s key automotive markets, and says Hella “are systematically expanding our own activities with partnerships.”
A research team at TU-Wien (the Vienna University of Technology) have developed a new kind of LED which generates light from the radiative decay of exciton complexes in extremely thin layers.
Researchers Aday Molina Mendoza, Matthias Paur,
At the 2019 edition of Auto Shanghai, Magneti Marelli are focusing on technologies in the field of HMI, connectivity, electrification, autonomous driving, and lighting.
Osram Continental celebrated the opening of their new location in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 2,100-m2 facility will initially employ about 65 people and serve as a R&D centre to support business primarily in the Americas region.
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