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Audi plans to sell 800,000 electrified cars in 2025

May 18, 2018 by Anna

Audi aims to sell approximately 800,000 fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the year 2025. The updated strategy will enable about every third customer to decide in favour of an e-model by the middle of the next decade.

There will be an electrified variant in each model series by then – most of them are to be fully electric, with a smaller proportion as plug-in hybrids.

“Our ambition has always been and will continue to be Vorsprung durch Technik,” says Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG.

[Read more…] about Audi plans to sell 800,000 electrified cars in 2025

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, electric cars

Audi opts for FRS Robotics quality control on car doors

April 23, 2018 by Anna

FRS Robotics has introduced a new adaptive robot cell that automates the highly sensitive ultrasonic inspection of fold glue joints of Audi vehicle doors.

Vehicle door types consist of metal sheet inner and outer parts which are glued, plied and welded along the door edges. Ultrasonic inspection is performed manually to verify correct glue bonding.

Audi asked FRS Robotics to automate the highly sensitive ultrasonic quality control of the doors’ fold glue joints.

[Read more…] about Audi opts for FRS Robotics quality control on car doors

Filed Under: Industrial robots, Industry, News Tagged With: ‘Robotic Ultrasonic QC, audi, frs robotics

‘Virtual dashboard’ sounds better than ‘human-machine interface’

October 19, 2017 by David Edwards

Audi Q8 interior with seamless integrated Android

A human-machine interface is a computer screen through which a human can control a machine. It can be a screen on a tablet computer or a desktop computer, or even a wearable, like a smartwatch.

The majority of HMIs in the industrial sector take the form of tablet computers, though there are also many desktop HMIs, and an increasing number of developers are releasing wearable HMIs, although they are few in number at the moment.

The reason why mobile HMIs seem to be favoured is that they can be located near the machine, or the user can be near the machine when using the device, to either directly control it in realtime or programme it to perform whatever operations at a subsequent time.  [Read more…] about ‘Virtual dashboard’ sounds better than ‘human-machine interface’

Filed Under: News, Sections A-Z, Transportation Tagged With: audi, cars, human machine interface, virtual dashboards

Audi to showcase autonomous driving technology at Frankfurt motor show

September 10, 2017 by Sam Francis

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Audi is to showcase its autonomous driving technology at the Frankfurt motor show, IAA 2017, staring later this week.

The auto giant says it has been making progress on many levels and is concentrating on providing level 3 automation as standard on its luxury A8 model.

Level 3 is what is called “conditional automation” on the SAE’s five levels of automation. It means the car can manage itself but can notify the human driver when they are required to intervene.  [Read more…] about Audi to showcase autonomous driving technology at Frankfurt motor show

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, audi a8, autonomous, autonomous driving, driverless car, frankfurt international motor show, iaa 2017, sae levels of automation, self-driving car

Volkswagen and Kuka research ways to use robots for future electric and autonomous cars

July 7, 2017 by Sam Francis

Volkswagen’s new concept autonomous and electric car, Sedric
Volkswagen self-driving concept car, which it calls Sedric

The Volkswagen Group is researching ways in which robots can be used in the future when cars become more electrified and computerised as a result of increasing demand for clean and autonomous vehicles. 

The German automaker, which owns the Audi, Bentley, Seat, Porsche and Lamborghini brands among others, is working one of the world’s largest industrial robotics and automation providers, Kuka, to research and develop a number of ideas.

The current area of interest for the strategic partnership between Kuka and Volkswagen is the area of service concepts for vehicles of the future, and the two companies have agreed a contract to jointly develop robot-based innovation concepts for vehicles of the future.  [Read more…] about Volkswagen and Kuka research ways to use robots for future electric and autonomous cars

Filed Under: Industrial robots, Industry, News, Transportation Tagged With: all-electric, audi, automobile, autonomous, collaboration, electric, future, includes, innovative, kuka, partnership, porsche, robot, robot-based, robots, volkswagen

Audi autonomous car tech boss chats with humanoid robot as though it were entirely natural

June 18, 2017 by Sam Francis

The cockpit inside Audi’s autonomous car, “Jack”

Audi has demonstrated its autonomous car – which it calls “Jack” – in a road test featuring a humanoid robot called Sophia, developed by Hanson Robotics.

Audi’s head of concept development, automated driving, Klaus Verweyen, was sitting in the driver’s seat of the car, while Sophia was in the passenger seat.

Verweyen chatted away to Sophia as though it was the most normal thing in the world. Meanwhile, Jack drove itself from Audi’s facility onto a main highway and back again.  [Read more…] about Audi autonomous car tech boss chats with humanoid robot as though it were entirely natural

Filed Under: Sections A-Z, Transportation Tagged With: audi, automated, autonomous, cameras, car, development, driving, engineer, humanoid, jack, laser, road, robot, robotics, sensors, sophia, technology, verweyen

US government set to change driverless vehicle regulations under pressure from automakers

June 14, 2017 by Sam Francis

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US President Donald Trump is set to announce “within the next few months” new regulations that will eliminate the barriers to autonomous cars on the roads, according to a report on Reuters. 

The current transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, acknowledged that automakers have been calling for rule changes which will give them more freedom to test and develop autonomous cars.

Chao says: “The pressure is mounting for the federal government to do something. We don’t want rules that impede future technological advances.”  [Read more…] about US government set to change driverless vehicle regulations under pressure from automakers

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, automakers, autonomous, cars, chao, driverless, driving, gm, self-driving, test, toyota, transportation, trucks, vehicles

Audi obsessively improving its logistics robot

February 17, 2017 by Sam Francis

audi ray robot

Audi is continuously obsessing about how to improve its Ray autonomous logistics robot, which is used to lift and move cars, and park them in specified places. 

The company says the Ray driverless transport system is “continuously being developed further – their weather resistance, for example” and in other ways.

Developed in partnership with Serva Transport Systems, Audi currently has a total of 18 of the parking robots.  [Read more…] about Audi obsessively improving its logistics robot

Filed Under: Logistics, News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, automotive, cars, driverless, industry, ingolstadt, logistics, parking, plant, ray, robot, robots, system, transport

Audi demonstrates autonomous driving tech with AI

January 30, 2017 by Mark Allinson

audi autonomous driving with ai

Audi has been showcasing its latest innovations in autonomous driving in collaboration with Nvidia. 

The auto giant and chip maker call the system “piloted driving with artificial intelligence.

Audi says AI is a “key technology” for piloted driving, which is why the company has form what it says are strong partnerships in the electronics industry and is jointly developing “game-changing know-how” in the field of machine learning.  [Read more…] about Audi demonstrates autonomous driving tech with AI

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, deep, driving, learning, nvidia, piloted

Consortium of car companies to build massive power network for electric vehicles

December 17, 2016 by Sam Francis

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A consortium of companies which includes some of the leading automakers has agreed to build what they say will be an “ultra-fast, high-power” charging network along major highways in Europe. 

The joint venture includes BMW, Daimler, Ford, and Volkswagen, which owns the Audi and Porsche brands.

The group says it will build a direct current network of approximately 400 charging points for battery electric vehicles.

In a joint statement, the consortium says this is an “important step” towards facilitating mass-market battery electric vehicle adoption.

The network itself will be based on the Combined Charging System standard technology, and will expand the existing electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Europe.

Individual charging points will enable motorists to use DC current to fast-charge their vehicles with 350 kW of power, say the companies.

At the moment, the country with the highest number of charging points is the United States, followed by the Netherlands and Germany.

This is according to OpenChargeMap.org, which says there are approximately 80,000 charging stations across more than 40,000 locations around the world.

Filed Under: Infrastructure, News, Transportation Tagged With: audi, automakers, battery, bmw, charging, daimler, electric, europe, ford, high-power, mass-market, network, porsche, ultra-fast, vehicle, vehicles

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