Future Mobility – Page 9
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ArticleToyota joins forces with NTT for connected-car development
Toyota and NTT say one of their goals is to standardize connected-car technology (Photo: Toyota)Toyota and Japan's NTT Group are cooperating to develop connected-car technologies, combining research in accident prevention, new mobility services and other areas.The two companies said in a press release that their goal is to realize ...
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ArticlePSA Group's mobility chief wants to be preferred services provider
Brigitte Courtehoux is targeting 300 million euros in mobility services revenue by 2021 (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER -- PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is stepping up eff0rts to build a real fourth brand for mobility services, the French carmaker's new mobility services chief, Brigitte Courtehoux, said Thursday.Next to Peugeot, Citroen and DS branded vehicles, ...
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ArticleOpel brand strategist plans with OnStar after PSA takeover
Opel's Tobias Gubitz (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER -- Opel sees General Motors' OnStar connectivity service as a key part of its strategy to offer more mobility products, even after the planned takeover of the German brand by France's PSA Group."If the deal happens, OnStar will continue to be available and ...
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ArticleVW CIO touts possibilities of machine learning
VW's Hofmann: Embrace machine learning or lose competitiveness (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER --Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann believes machine learning is coming into its own as a means to achieve significant digital innovation across all business areas."Machine learning is no longer science fiction," Hofmann told the automotiveIT Congress. "It's here and ...
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ArticleCity Car Summit: "An explosion of mobility"
Panelists cited many mobility challenges as well as big opportunities (Photo: Arjen Bongard)BERLIN -- Automotive, car-sharing and technology experts shared an urban new-mobility vision here that highlighted the possibilities and challenges for cities looking for cleaner and smarter traffic solutions."We're seeing an explosion of mobility," said Richard Harris, an ...
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ArticleRenault opens Paris innovation lab
Renault showed an electric Zoe concept at the Geneva auto show (Photo: Renault)Renault has opened a so-called "Open Innovation Lab" in Paris in a bid to speed up new-mobility research and step up cooperation with French startup companies.The carmaker already runs similar innovation labs in Silicon Valley and Tel ...
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ArticleVW, Tata to cooperate in India
In 2014, VW's Pune factory celebrated the 50,000th car built there for export (Photo: VW)Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors have agreed to cooperate on mobility services for developing countries, the two carmakers said in a statement Friday.VW, which became the world's biggest automotive group by unit sales last year, ...
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ArticleCity Car Summit - Berlin
The City Car Summit, a conference that focuses on the new urban mobility landscape, will take place in Berlin March 14 and 15.The event features presentations by executives from automakers, tech companies and urban and other authorities, who will share their views on how new technologies will help reshape the ...
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ArticleTata Motors joins new-mobility trend
Tata Motors expects its new modular platforms to make it easier to introduce new technologies (Photo: Tata Motors)Tata Motors has formed a new unit that will help the Indian automotive group develop new business areas.The division, which is called Tamo, will unveil its first product at the Geneva auto ...
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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress - Hanover
More than 500 people attended the 2016 automotiveIT Congress in Hanover (Photo: Claus Dick)This year's automotiveIT Congress, which will take place March 23 in Hanover, will focus on one of the biggest challenges facing the global car industry: How to move to a more agile IT approach.The annual event, ...
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ArticleAudi, FAW form Chinese new-mobility unit
Audi's China sales are boosted by strong demand for compact cars (Photo: Audi)Audi and its local partner, FAW, have established a dedicated unit for mobility and digital services in China, as the German premium brand pursues a strategy to further grow its business in the world's biggest market.Audi and ...
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ArticleFrom Microsoft, a new connected-vehicle platform
Renault-Nissan is one of the first car companies to use Microsoft's platform (Photo: Microsoft)Microsoft has unveiled a connected vehicle platform designed to be a core building block for future automotive functions. Renault-Nissan will be the first automaker to build connected cars using the platform.The US-based software company said the ...
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ArticleHere maps to help Baidu expand outside China
Maps are considered a key building block for autonomous-driving systems (Photo: Here)Here will provide map content to Baidu to help the Chinese internet company grow its mapping business outside its home market.Here already provides content to Baidu Maps' desktop and mobile services in southeast Asia. The new agreement between ...
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ArticleCES: ZF, Nvidia work on artificial-intelligence platform
ZF sees sensing and intelligent systems as crucial in future mobility (Photo: ZF)LAS VEGAS -- ZF Friedrichshafen and Nvidia are jointly developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems for cars, trucks and other industrial applications.The German automotive supplier unveiled its ZF ProAI platform at a press conference here on the eve ...
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ArticleAt CES, Daimler's mobility vision wil be on display
Daimler's EQ family represents the key mobility trends the carmaker expects to see in coming years (Photo: Daimler)LAS VEGAS -- Daimler will show its Concept EQ crossover and the Mercedes-Benz Vision Van at this year's CES in an attempt to provide concrete examples of what it expects the future ...
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ArticleVW buys N. American parking-payment operator
Paybyphone says it is adding about 7,000 users a day (Photo: Paybyphone)(Bloomberg) --Volkswagen AG bought North American parking-payment operatorPayByPhone in the latest move by Europe’s biggest carmaker to expand from manufacturing into mobility services.The purchase of Vancouver-based PayByPhone, which processed more than 250 million dlrs in transactions this year, ...
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ArticleUber pulls autonomous vehicles from San Francisco streets
Uber's self-driving cars were only seen on San Francisco streets for a brief period (Photo: Uber)(Bloomberg) --Uber Technologies Inc. pulled its self-driving cars from San Francisco’s streets after the state of California revoked registrations for the vehicles.The move impacted 16 Uber automobiles, the Department of Motor Vehicles wrote in ...
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ArticleFiat may show EV at Las Vegas CES
FiatChrysler will be one of the last major car brands to launch a full EV (Photo: FCA)(Bloomberg) -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will reveal a fully electric vehicle based on the Chrysler Pacifica minivan at CES in Las Vegas next month as the carmaker moves to get in step ...
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ArticleCES - Las Vegas
At the 2016 CES, GM CEO Mary Barra gave a keynote address (Photo: CES)The annual CES exhibition, the first major consumer electronics exhibition of the year, officially starts in Las Vegas on January 5.But press events already begin on January 3, when electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future and several other ...
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ArticleUber Creates artificial intelligence lab
Uber is looking to AI for help in developing its ride-hailing services (Photo: Uber)(Bloomberg) --Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to buy startup Geometric Intelligence Inc. to help the ride-hailing company create a new artificial-intelligence research lab.The startup has 15 employees and is developing new machine-learning techniques inspired by cognitive science ...
