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Volvo Financial Services (VFS) has launched ‘iLabX’, an accelerator program that will provide entrepreneurial companies from around the world in fintech and other fields with the opportunity to collaborate with VFS to develop and implement new innovative solutions and technologies.
iLabX will be run in collaboration with L Marks, a corporate innovation specialist. The program accepts entries in four categories:
Volvo Trucks will introduce all-electric truck demonstrators in California next year, and commercialise them in North America in 2020, as part of a partnership between the Volvo Group, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), and industry leaders in transportation and electrical charging infrastructure.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $44.8 million to SCAQMD for the Volvo Lights (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project.
The Volvo Lights project will involve 16 partners, and transform freight operations at the facilities of two of the United States’ top trucking fleets.
[Read more…] about Volvo to introduce all-electric trucks in North America
Continental is launching an emergency brake assist system for motorcycles. The radar-based system belongs to the range of advanced rider assistance systems that Continental will be presenting at EICMA in Milan, Italy.
The new fifth-generation radar sensors from Continental, which feature capabilities such as enhanced object detection, make it possible to deliver a high-performance emergency brake assist system.
Whereas an emergency brake assist in a passenger car automatically performs emergency braking with maximum braking force when a collision is imminent, the motorcycle system brakes in a much more measured way.
[Read more…] about Continental to launch radar-based motorbike emergency brake assist
ZF is developing a three-dimensional Interior Observation System (IOS) capable of detecting and classifying vehicle occupants, determining their size, location and position, and whether or not they are in active control of the vehicle.
While ZF is well-known as a world leader in the production of forward facing object recognition cameras that sense the external vehicle environment, the company has also been involved in the development of interior observation cameras for more than ten years.
Due to the trend toward advanced safety and vehicle automation, interest in interior camera technology has intensified and ZF is now developing a 3D camera interior observation system supporting a broad variety of potential safety, comfort and AD applications.
[Read more…] about ZF developing 3D interior observation system for autonomous driving
Two giants of the global automotive industry – Daimler Mercedes-Benz and Bosch – have chosen San José as the pilot city for their automated on-demand ride-hailing service.
These companies tend to use the word “automated” to mean autonomous or driverless.
The test area will be the San Carlos-Stevens Creek corridor between downtown and west San José.
The on-demand ride-hailing service app will offer an automated driving experience to a selected user community. [Read more…] about Daimler and Bosch choose San Jose as pilot city for automated on-demand ride-hailing service
A new plant in Qingdao, in which auto supplier company Continental has invested, has been relocated and reopened in the Sino-German Ecopark.
With a total investment of approximately RMB 240 million (around 30 million Euros) and an area of approximately 84,000 sqm, the new plant in Qingdao provides high quality hose products and mobile fluid system solutions for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
The new plant is also committed to integrating global resources and capabilities to facilitate structural upgrade for China’s local automotive industry and regional economic development based on the needs of the country’s automotive market.
[Read more…] about Continental moves Qingdao investment to Sino-German Ecopark
Denso Corporation is to establish a new facility at Haneda Airport in Tokyo to develop and test automated driving technologies.
The facility, which is expected to be complete by June 2020, will feature a building and proving ground for mobility systems R&D.
This announcement follows Denso’s establishment of its Global R&D Tokyo facility in April 2018, an automated driving R&D office near Shinagawa Station in Minato City, Tokyo, to promote collaboration and open innovation with its development partners, which include automakers, universities, research institutes and startups.
[Read more…] about Denso to open new Tokyo facility for automated driving technology
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors have announced plans to introduce solar charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles.
Electricity-generating solar panels will be incorporated into the roof or the hood of vehicles, and will support internal combustion, hybrid and battery electric vehicles with additional electrical power, increasing fuel efficiency and range.
The solar charging technology is being developed to support the vehicle’s main power source, improving mileage and reducing CO2 emissions.
[Read more…] about Hyundai plans solar charging system for cars
ZF Friedrichshafen AG is taking over 35 percent of the shares of the engineering services provider ASAP Holding GmbH, located in Gaimersheim, Bavaria, Germany.
The move is in line with the company’s strategy of securing additional resources for autonomous driving and e-mobility in order to better meet the ever growing demands from customers in these areas.
“As an established development partner, ASAP Group has extensive expertise in the areas of autonomous driving, e-mobility, connected cars and vehicle software,” says Torsten Gollewski, general manager of Zukunft Ventures GmbH and head of ZF’s Advanced Development department.
[Read more…] about ZF acquires stake in ASAP to boost autonomous driving resources
The BMW Group has selected software development partners KPIT and TTTech to press ahead with the scalable Autonomous Driving Platform and to work together on the development of Level 3 and Level 4/5 functions (Highway Pilot and Urban Pilot).
This move bolsters the BMW Group’s development resources for automated driving and represents another step forward in its quest to expand the platform’s ecosystem and establish the technology in the automotive industry.
KPIT and TTTech will be well positioned to help roll out the software stack within the Autonomous Driving Platform to third parties. This will make it easier to integrate other OEMs and begin offering scalable software solutions across the industry.
[Read more…] about BMW Group enlists software development partners for autonomous driving
