• Amazon tech boss to join Stellantis

    • 21 July 2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Stellantis has announced that Ned Curic will take over as chief technology officer on 30 August He arrives from Amazon, where he is currently vice president of Alexa Automotive Curic will manage all information technology within Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to work closely [...]
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  • AW subscribes to escribe

    • 7 July 2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    AW Repair Group has chosen Thatcham Research’s escribe platform for methods repair data and technical support Escribe is an online repair methods solution designed to help the industry return crash damaged vehicles safely and efficiently to pre-accident condition Steve Hoe, technical development and VM [...]
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  • Apple car rumours gather momentum

    • 21 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Rumours that tech giant Apple is getting ready to develop its own a self-driving or electric car are gathering pace, as chief executive Tim Cook told the car industry to expect a ‘massive change’ in the market If the rumours are to be believed, an Apple car could be on sale as early as 2019 While Tim Cook did [...]
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  • Toyota self-driving cars by 2020

    • 7 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Toyota has unveiled its vision for self-driving cars, promising to start selling autonomous vehicles in Japan by 2020 Toyota demonstrated on a Tokyo motorway what it called the ‘mobility team-mate concept’, meaning the driver and the artificial intelligence in a sensor-packed car work together as a team In [...]
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  • Wireless charging to revolutionise car market

    • 5 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A new study has found that wireless charging is poised to change the way consumers interact with their cars, with an estimated 50 million vehicles offering built-in wireless device charging by 2020, compared with only 4 million this year The new research from Juniper, found that the technology will enable a range [...]
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  • Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars

    • 8 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts [...]
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  • SEAT downloads connectivity technology

    • 3 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    SEAT is undertaking an ambitious plan to prioritise in-car connectivity across all of its models, seamlessly bridging the gap between the smartphone and infotainment system, so in today’s increasingly digital world the driver is always connected Several new models, starting with the New Ibiza CONNECT and closely [...]
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  • Millennials Prefer Backseat Driving

    • 8 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A new report from Key Note ‘Motor Insurance (Consumer) 2015’, suggests that Millennials prefer to be driven as opposed to driving themselves, despite the recent fall in motor insurance premiums According to the report net written premiums have fallen by 159 per cent between 2011 and 2014 There are a number of [...]
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  • Google tests autonomous cars in Austin

    • 8 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Google has started testing its autonomous cars in Austin, Texas, increasing efforts to gather information on how its prototypes interact with the surrounding environment Google has been testing self-driving cars since 2009, though until now most of the testing has been around its Silicon Valley headquarters in [...]
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  • Toyota Mirai goes the distance

    • 2 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The new Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has proved it can go the distance, achieving 67 miles per gallon in official US combined city/highway driving calculations, and an estimated driving range of 312 miles on a single tank – a distance further than for any other zero-emissions car on the market Jim [...]
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