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  Volkswagen’s high-voltage electric car battery detailed

  12 May 2021 / 3 comments

  Volkswagen’s modular electric drive architecture, or MEB for short, is a platform that was unveiled back in September 2018. It will be shared group-wide across all brands under the Volkswagen Group, but the company is […]

   

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  SAE refines definitions of driving automation levels

  10 May 2021 / 0 comments

  In light of the rapid advancement in autonomous driving technologies and functions, SAE International in collaboration with the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has announced a key update to the most-cited reference for self-driving capabilities: […]

   

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  Michelin to incorporate recycled plastic for its tyres

  7 May 2021 / 3 comments

  Michelin’s big goal is to become a 100% fully sustainable tyre manufacturer by 2050, and it has just tested and validated the use of a high tenacity fibre that is made from recycled plastic. The […]

   

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  BMW, Ford invest RM536m in solid-state battery firm

  6 May 2021 / 1 comment

  BMW Group, Ford and venture capital firm Volta Energy Technologies are leading a USD$130 million (RM536 million) funding round in a solid-state battery startup, Solid Power. The move comes shortly after the Bavarian automaker said […]

   

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  Brembo New G Sessanta concept – calipers with LEDs

  6 May 2021 / 3 comments

  Brembo will be turning 60 soon, and it plans to celebrate the milestone by presenting the New G Sessanta, a fresh new design concept inspired by the first motorcycle brake caliper it created back in […]

   

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  Baidu launches fully driverless ride-hailing in Beijing

  4 May 2021 / 13 comments

  Baidu has opened its Apollo Go fully driverless robotaxi service to the public in Beijing, where users will be able to hail a robotaxi without a safety driver at the vehicle’s controls. Shougang Park in […]

   

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  Ex-Core releases revolutionary low-waste carbon-fibre manufacturing process, to be used in F1 cars soon?

  22 April 2021 / 2 comments

  Ex-Core Technologies, an offshoot high-tech manufacturing specialists from Dutch family sportscar maker Donkervoort, has attracted the interest of at least two Formula One teams. The F1 teams are particularly interested in the firm’s revolutionary ability […]

   

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  BMW to demonstrate solid-state batteries before 2025

  21 April 2021 / 0 comments

  The BMW Group has revealed that it is well on track with solid-state battery developments, and it plans to roll out a demo vehicle “well before 2025.” This announcement follows the automaker’s Neue Klasse aspirations […]

   

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  Volvo partners with DiDi Autonomous Driving for self-driving test vehicles; aims to expand fleet in China, US

  20 April 2021 / 0 comments

  Volvo has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with DiDi Autonomous Driving, the self-driving technology arm of mobility technology platform DiDi Chuxing for a fleet of self-driving test vehicles. These will be XC90 SUVs provided by […]

   

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  MyBayar Saman mobile app to be improved; 814,622 users registered on platform as of April 15 – Police

  19 April 2021 / 0 comments

  The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM), through the Bukit Aman traffic investigation and enforcement department (JSPT) will be improving the MyBayar Saman mobile app in order to further increase the collection of summonses, according to Bernama. […]

   

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  Next-gen self-driving Volvos to be powered by Nvidia – new powerful Orin chip allows unsupervised autonomy

  14 April 2021 / 4 comments

  Volvo Cars has announced that it will deepen its collaboration with Nvidia, and will be the first automaker in the world to use the Nvidia Drive Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC). This SoC will be used to […]

   

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  Apple Car autonomous tech may live on – Tim Cook

  6 April 2021 / 0 comments

  Tech giant Apple is continually developing autonomous driving technology, CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with CNBC, though he was rather cryptic about specific progress made with the development of the long-rumoured Apple Car. […]

   

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  Toyota unveils hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility in Australia – fully carbon-neutral

  5 April 2021 / 8 comments

  Toyota has commissioned its first hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility in Altona, west of Melbourne in Australia where up to 80 kg of hydrogen can be produced per day, according to the manufacturer. The […]

   

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  Hyundai Ioniq 5 to enter Lyft self-driving fleet in 2023

  2 April 2021 / 3 comments

  The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is being trialled as an autonomous taxi with the aim of going into driverless service with the Lyft ride-hailing app from the beginning of 2023, Tech Crunch has reported. The autonomous […]

   

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  Porsche, Shell announce EV charging network in Malaysia; six charging stations ready by 1H 2022

  31 March 2021 / 8 comments

  Porsche Asia Pacific and Shell have partnered for the implementation of Southeast Asia’s first cross-border, high-performance electric vehicle charging network, the companies announced in a joint statement. This will be comprised of 12 charging points […]

   

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