Automotive IT News and Facts
HANOVER – Audi wants to have 1 million connected Audi vehicles by 2015, up from 200,000 at present, the premium car maker’s CIO, Mattias Ulbrich, said Thursday. The premium car maker offers an “Audi connect” package that offers a range of connectivity services, including navigation with Google Earth and Google Street view, online traffic information, [...]
Audi opened a new r&d center as well as a digital showroom in China, underscoring the importance of the world’s largest auto market to the German premium car brand. The Volkswagen Group subsidiary opened its first digital Audi showroom in Asia in Beijing last week, exporting a new sales model that it plans to introduce [...]
Increasingly sophisticated driver-assistance technologies will gradually make autonomous driving a reality, according to Robert Bosch. “Fully autonomous driving will come about one step at a time,” said Gerhard Steiger, president of the Chassis Systems Control division of the German automotive supplier. Bosch builds and markets a range of driver-assistance technologies, including adaptive cruise control, ESP, [...]
Popular Science magazine has cited Audi’s piloted driving system as “Product of the Future,” while The Verge, an online technology publication, commended the system as “Best Automotive Technology” at this year’s CES trade fair. Audi showed journalists coming to the annual consumer electronics show a working version of its piloted driving system, which can operate [...]
With demand for its cars surging, Audi plans to invest 3 billion euros in China in the next five years, according to a report in the government-owned China Daily. The newspaper, citing an interview with Wolfgang Duerheimer, Audi’s head of research and development, said the funds are earmarked to develop, produce and sell new cars [...]
Audi switched on a new computer center it says will set new standards for green IT. The center, located at the premium car maker’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, hosts all main IT applications for roughly 51,000 computers in use at Audi. In addition, the facility is at the hear of the Audi connect services, [...]
Audi has signed a strategic partnership with semiconductor maker NXP to boost innovation speed and time to market of new automotive electronics applications. The areas covered range from in-vehicle networking and car entertainment to emerging technologies for the connected car. Audi’s chief executive engineer for electrics and electronics, Ricky Hudi, said in a press release [...]
Mattias Ulbrich has been CIO at Audi AG in Ingolstadt since February 2012. In an interview with automotiveIT, he talks about his current duties as a process integrator, the new era of collaboration with the company‘s other divisions, and his relationship with Volkswagen Group IT. automotiveIT: Audi IT is the most attractive employer of computer scientists [...]
Audi said it has completed a three-year research project designed to build a technology platform for electric mobility. The German premium car maker said the platform’s modules can now be used in a variety of electric vehicles. Audi worked on the so-called e performance project with supplier Robert Bosch and several institutes of Aachen Technical [...]
Audi will start equipping its R8 e-tron with a digital rear-view mirror later this year. The premium car maker said the mirror, first tested in the R18 e-tron quattro during the Le Mans 24 Hours race earlier this year, Â will go into small-scale production in the R8 e-tron, which doesn’t have a rear window and [...]
