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ArticleVolkswagen outlines its sales transformation plan
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has outlined its plan to restructure and digitalize its sales model. From spring 2020, it intends to expand its online business, including direct online sales, and to target customers via some different sales locations. Underpinning this will be a system of unique Volkswagen customer IDs, ...
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ArticleVirtual retail: Gubagoo launches solution to sell cars through Facebook Marketplace
Image: GubagooFlorida-based Gubagoo has announced a digital retailing solution enabling car dealers to sell vehicles via Facebook Marketplace. It claims that this enables customers to build a deal on a vehicle and get financing approved within 30 minutes, and to calculate payments, get a trade-in car valued, apply for ...
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ArticleAutomotive Grade Linux update enables telematics and instrument cluster applications
Image: The Linux FoundationThe latest UCB 6.0 release of Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), the open connected-car software platform, adds device profiles for telematics and instrument cluster applications.The AGL UCB (Unified Code Base) has been developed by member companies with a view to sharing a single standardized cross-industry platform for ...
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ArticleDaimler Financial Services invests in New Zealand start-up Soul Machines for advanced avatars
Image: DaimlerDaimler’s financial and mobility services division has made a strategic investment in Soul Machines, a start-up from New Zealand specializing in emotional intelligence for digital avatars. Daimler Financial Services intends to further develop these for use in its customer experience, having already worked with Soul Machines on ...
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ArticleAudi adopts AI to automate inspections
Image: AudiAudi is testing software using artificial intelligence to recognise and identify tiny cracks in sheet metal. The deep learning system, deployed in the press shop at Ingolstadt, is said to detect the finest cracks in door panels, hoods, fenders and other sheet metal components in an automated inspection ...
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ArticleAudi gets into bed with Amazon and the consequences could be unpredictable, data from Alexa could assist retailer into auto market
Running rings around Tesla? Audi e-tron prototypes on test in the desertWhen Audi officially launched its e-tron electric SUV in the United States last month, Audi of America President Scott Keogh told journalists that he wanted Audi to be "the number-one electric vehicle seller in America over the long ...
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ArticlePorsche joins the EV revolution, ushers in new agile production methods and new digital training for transformation of business
Porsche launched its much-anticipated first electric vehicle the Taycan this week, and was keen to highlight the changes in production at the factory as much as the new car itself. Fifty percent of Porsche models delivered after 2025 will be electric Stuttgart company sees EV and Industry 4.0 as key ...
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ArticleDenso takes stake in eSOL Co for real-time embedded software
Image: DensoDenso Corporation has taken a 2pc equity stake in eSOL Co., a fellow Japanese firm developing real-time embedded software solutions which could be applied for automated driving. The two firms have already been working together (along with NEC Communications Systems) since 2016 in a joint venture called Aubass ...
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ArticleBosch launches IoT Suite on Huawei Cloud
Image: BoschThe Bosch IoT Suite of services is now on offer in China via Huawei Cloud. The first service available to Chinese developers is Bosch IoT Manager, for managing and controlling gateways, sensors and devices, with more to follow in 2019.An unnamed Chinese automotive manufacturer is already said to ...
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ArticleClutch Technologies launches car subscriptions platform with end-to-end billing
Image: Clutch Technologies Clutch Technologies of Atlanta has launched Clutch Payments, an end-to-end billing and payments platform for vehicle subscription services. This is based on the Stripe Connect technology stack to give a turn-key software solution which is both customizable and scalable, allowing for a series of options ...
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ArticleMercedes-Benz Vans adds AI to last-mile logistics
Shining star. The MB Vision Urbanetic concept premiered at the Hannover Commercial ShowThe Future Transportation team of Mercedes-Benz Vans has developed an AI and computer vision-powered cargo sensor system. CoROS (Cargo Recognition and Organization System) is intended to optimize deliveries for logistics businesses by automating cargo management, decreasing the ...
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ArticleAllego launches EV charger control deploying Microsoft Azure Digital Twins
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure provider Allego is offering a smart charging solution which enables a balancing of driver demand, grid capacity and renewable energy supply.
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ArticleHyundai Cradle invests in Perceptive Automata
Image: Perceptive AutomataHyundai’s corporate venture business, Hyundai Cradle, is taking a stake in Perceptive Automata, a developer of AI software for autonomous vehicles. The start-up, which recently joined the Renovo AWare ecosystem, uses rich sensor data and deep learning models to gain an understanding of how people – other ...
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ArticleFord, Honda and Volkswagen get smarter at crossroads
Image: FordFord, Honda and Volkswagen have demonstrated or announced vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) trials this week. These are all intended to explore technologies to ease traffic congestion, smooth out traffic flow and increase safety and efficiency; and while they currently involve alerts (and later, interventions) to human drivers, ...
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ArticleCapgemini Invent launches Smart Mobility Connect service for digital transformation
Image: Capgemini InventCapgemini Invent, a digital consulting division of the global Capgemini group, is launching a consultancy service which promises to help automotive OEMs accelerate digitization across their business, identify new opportunities, and increase customer satisfaction.Smart Mobility Connect leverages strategy, technology, design, data analytics and artificial intelligence in three ...
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ArticleNvidia CEO sees “gigantic opportunities" for auto industry
Nvidia CEO Huang says current level 2 vehicle technology is “not very good” (Photo: Nvidia) MUNICH – Jensen Huang isn’t bothered by the differences between the five levels of autonomy that the US-based Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has defined for driverless cars. “As long as it works,” ...
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ArticleTesla Model 3 makes a difference
Tesla has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, but new production figures from the company show that the Model 3 is finally making the numbers for Elon Musk. Is this a turning point in the company's fortunes?
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ArticleAutomotive logistics industry looks to technology to help tackle looming disruption from Brexit, and create value from supply chain
Speakers at the Automotive Logistics UK summit at Silverstone focused on how to change existing supply chain business models to make the best use of emerging digital technology as a means to tackle the disruption ahead and remain competitive.
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ArticleVolvo to adopt Nvidia technology to usher in Level 2+ automated driving features in next generation models
Nvidia’s Drive AGX Xavier technology will provide the Swedish premium car group with a computing platform that offers more power for advanced driver assistance systems and the flexibility to upgrade the car’s functions if and when needed. Nvidia’s technology will deliver “Level 2+” automated driving features, indicating it will offer ...
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ArticleReimagining its own data lakes and embracing analytics may save the car industry from extinction
In the IT world, it’s hard to avoid the cliché that “data is the new oil”, yet in the auto industry it might actually be true. As it moves from a very 20th Century data-light, vertical model of building cars to a horizontal digital future of mobility solutions and services, ...
