Automotive IT News and Facts
A group of eight US and German carmakers will demonstrate a common fast-charging technology they hope will accelerate the spread of electric vehicles. Volkswagen, Â Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, General Motors and Porsche will demonstrate the standardized single-port DC-fast charging technology at the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26), a conference that will take place in Los [...]
Manufacturing companies need a universally recognized standard for the exchange of product data across the supply chain, according to a survey of industry executives. The survey, conducted by Germany’s RAAD Research in cooperation with Contact Software and Siemens PLM, found that manufacturing companies are challenged by an absence of standards when exchanging information between production, [...]
Sanjay Rishi is CIO and group vice president, information technology, at Automotive Experience, the biggest division of US-based Johnson Controls. Rishi runs a global IT operation with between 400 and 500 people worldwide, not including a “partner ecosystem” of companies that provide a broad range of IT services to JCI. The automotive division employs 80,000 [...]
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 [...]
As expected, Audi said it is buying Italian motorcycle maker Ducati from the Investindustrial holding company, adding a twelfth brand to the Volkswagen Group’s stable of brands. Terms weren’t disclosed, but German press reports said the purchase price was around 860 million euros. Audi CEO Rupert Stadler cited Ducati’s “great expertise in high-performance engines and [...]
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; [...]
