Automotive IT News and Facts
BANGALORE – Companies in mature markets are increasingly transferring r&d abroad and premium car maker Daimler is no exception. The company recently inaugurated a new r&d center here, underscoring the importance it attaches to the fast-growing Indian market. “India is one of the core markets of our Mercedes-Benz 2020 growth strategy, and it has enormous [...]
Bernd Bohr is leaving his post as the head of the automotive division of Robert Bosch. Bohr, 56, has been in charge of the biggest division of the German automotive supplier for almost 10 years and has worked for Bosch since 1987. He is leaving the company of his own accord and plans to pursue [...]
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, [...]
Robert Bosch plans to build a new factory in Russia on the expectation that the country’s car market will continue to grow rapidly in coming years. The German automotive supplier, the world’s largest, said it would invest some 40 million euros in the plant in the next three years. Construction will start in early 2013. [...]
Robert Bosch, formalizing the dissolution of a battery joint venture with Korea’s Samsung, has established a new division to build and market battery systems. The German automotive supplier said Robert Bosch Battery Systems, which includes the former SB LiMotive joint venture as well as Michigan-based Cobasys LLC, Â will focus on building complete battery packs for [...]
A new digitally connected model for industry could add as much as 15 trillion dlrs to global output, according to a report published by General Electric Monday. Researchers at the US based industrial conglomerate say the so-called “industrial internet,” which links networks, data and machines, has the potential to sharply boost productivity worldwide. That key [...]
“The world has changed,” said a Bosch spokesman, adding that there is no longer any business justification for the German automotive supplier’s equity holding in Denso. Bosch acquired a 5.4 pc shareholding in Japan’s biggest automotive supplier in 1954 because it wanted to get access to the local market and do business with Japanese automakers. [...]
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 [...]
Robert Bosch has launched a lighter and more flexible brake control system aimed at the premium segment. The German automotive supplier said its ESP 9 premium system uses an especially efficient return pump that can build up brake pressure very fast and almost without vibration. The new ESP has a high degree of flexibility, Bosch [...]
Robert Bosch plans to enter into a joint venture with China’s Ningbo Polaris Technology to jointly make motors for electric Scooters, a new business area for the German automotive supplier. Bosch will have a majority share of the venture, which will develop, manufacture and sell a range of eScooter motors. Ningbo Polaris makes and sells such [...]
