Bosch: Listening Comes First in Transport
Better mobility starts with listening to customers
Bill Hampton
Editor-in-Chief, AutoBeat Daily
Hyundai Is Taking to the Sky with Uber
Perhaps traffic congestion will be less of a problem. Of course, then there’s air traffic control. . .
#Hyundai
Toyota to Launch. . . a City
Rather than just trying to see how advanced mobility and robotics will fit into existing structures, Toyota is building a city to help determine how these things can be best integrated into people’s lives
#Toyota #people
Michigan's PlanetM Mobility Outreach
Michigan is promoting mobility development through its PlanetM initiative. Trevor Pawl, who heads business development for the initiative, explains.
The Auto Industry in 2019—and Beyond
What do events in 2019 portend for the industry’s future?
#Honda #Toyota #Tesla
China Likely to Extend EV Subsidies
China is having second thoughts about phasing out discounts on electric cars after EV sales dropped 4% last year.
#asia
VW Putting Chargers in Factory Parking Lots
If you want people to drive electric vehicles, you have to make availability of recharging convenient
#Volkswagen
BP Adds Fast Chargers in UK
While the number of battery electric vehicles is still small in the UK, BP is building out infrastructure
China Likely to Extend EV Subsidies
China is having second thoughts about phasing out discounts on electric cars after EV sales dropped 4% last year.
#asia
Renault Mulls CEO Candidates
Henri Poupart-Lafarge, who heads French transportation and infrastructure giant Alstom, has joined the short list of contenders to become the CEO of Renault.
#Toyota #europe #people
Ford Adds Geofence Hybrid Testing to Germany
Ford Motor Co. soon will begin testing a geofencing system in Cologne, Germany, that automatically switches plug-in hybrid vehicles to all-electric mode when operating in zero-emission areas.
#tech #europe #Ford
Startup Launches Electric London Black Cab
U.K.-based Dynamo Motor Co. has launched an all-electric version of London’s iconic “black cab.”
#HP #europe #Nissan
Schaeffler Addresses E-Mobility
The changing landscape requires not only new approaches to powertrains—but even new types of vehicles. Here’s how one supplier is addressing these changes.
#Ford #Lincoln #Audi
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Audi’s Simple But Smart Driver Assistance
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, when fully implemented, could have a tremendous effect on transportation patterns.
#oem #Audi
What Is Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE All About?
The common data model, information technology infrastructure, and cloud technologies make the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE relevant.
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How 3,000 Is a Really Big Number
To know that 3,000 cars have been delivered since October 2015 would undoubtedly result in a shrug: in 2017 Toyota delivered 387,081 Camrys, so that 3,000 is less than one percent, and this is in one year, not just over two.
#Toyota #oem
Toyota Putting Muda to Work
Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) announced last week that it will be building a fuel-cell power generation plant at the Port of Long Beach that will be powered by “bio-waste” from dairy farms in northern California, transforming the waste into water, electricity and hydrogen.
#Toyota #oem #HP
Nissan Launches a New Leaf
While we’ve often pointed out in this space that one of the challenges of moving toward electric vehicles (EVs)—as in full, battery-electric vehicles, not “electrified,” which can be a 48-volt system or a hybrid or some variation there of—is that there needs to be the creation of an infrastructure.
#Dodge #BMW #Tesla
