Automotive IT News and Facts
Robert Bosch plans to acquire a majority shareholding in a Chinese maker of instrument clusters and infotainment systems. In a move designed to strengthen its position in China and East Asia, the German automotive supplier said it is buying a majority stake in a joint venture company of automaker Chery and an Australian group, Atech [...]
Johnson Controls’ automotive division has chosen Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter as its corporate standard for collaboration and process integration. Siemens PLM Software, a division of Germany’s Siemens Group, said Johnson Controls Automotive Experience will use Team Center across its entire global product development operation. Siemens said it had won the contract in competition with at least [...]
Garmin has opened new offices in three major markets as it boosts its global satellite navigation activities and expands its automotive business. The Swiss-based company, said new offices in Shanghai, Stuttgart and Yokohama are located close to leading carmakers and automotive suppliers. The company also recently opened a dedicated automotive office in Detroit. “Our new [...]
China needs to boost sales of range-extended electric vehicles, rather than focus too heavily on pure EVs, according to McKinsey. In a study of the Chinese EV market, the strategy consultants say it will be at least 10 years before pure EVs become a commercially attractive alternative to combustion-engine-powered cars. EVs with range extenders, on [...]
BMW, stepping up its activities in China, said it has opened a Connected Drive lab and a design studio in Shanghai. The German premium car maker said its Connected Drive lab will allow key development initiatives to be directly linked to Asian markets. Alexis Trolink, who heads the Shanghai facility, said in a press release [...]
General Motors showed a new version of its EN-V 2.0 mobility concept at the Beijing auto show, underlining the auto industry’s resolve to address the changing requirement of mostly urban car drivers. “The EN-V 2.0 concept would use technologies such as the mobility internet, electrification and telematics to help change the automotive landscape and ensure [...]
Cadillac says it will be ready to build a self-driving or “semi-autonomous” vehicle by the middle of this decade. The luxury car brand of General Motors said it already has the technology to let cars manage themselves with the use of adaptive cruise control and lane centering software. Those technologies, which are available on the [...]
Genivi will hold its annual member meeting at Disneyland outside Paris April 24-27, with more than 500 participants scheduled to attend. The alliance, whose goal is to develop cross-industry software standards for the development of in-vehicle infotainment, groups automakers, automotive suppliers, telematics and mobile phone companies. Speaking at a Telematics Update conference in Munich this [...]
MUNICH — Cars will be connected to the internet through both embedded and smartphone-based systems, telematics executives said Wednesday. In a discussion of the pros and cons of the different approaches at a Telematics Update conference here, a panel of experts said the mode of connectivity depends on different factors. “I see a hybrid approach; [...]
MUNICH — Traffic information is the most important telematics application in the car, a senior market researcher said Wednesday. “What’s the value proposition of telematics? Clearly traffic is top of the list,” said Roger Lanctot, associate director, global automotive practice, at market researchers Strategy Analytics. Lanctot, speaking at a Telematics Update conference here, said surveys [...]
