Urban Mobility
In a demonstration of their passion for innovation, Nissan engineers have created a prototype Nissan LEAF with a 48 kWh battery – in their spare time. Following the manufacturer’s principles of on-going research and development of electric vehicles, the 48 kWh prototype carries a battery twice the size of the original Nissan LEAF production model, with a 75 percent increase
Read moreOn the heels of its $32 billion takeover of chip designer ARM Holdings, SoftBank Corp founder Masayoshi Son is embarking on another “crazy idea”: talking cars that can read a driver’s emotions. The Japanese telecommunications and internet corporation said on Thursday it was teaming up with Honda Motor Co to look at ways of applying SoftBank’s humanoid robotic technology to
Read moreBillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk published his “master plan part 2” on Wednesday night that disclosed a wide-ranging vision for his companies including new future Tesla vehicles, car sharing, urban planning concepts, and a combined SolarCity and Tesla that would sell solar panels and batteries. Musk’s goals and driving forces behind all of his business decisions, is to deliver “sustainable energy”
Read moreThe technology in cars becomes more complex each year. A basic compact car comes packed with electronics. Luxury models are rolling communication devices. Finding the right people to service these vehicles is an ongoing struggle for dealerships. “There is a real shortage of automotive technicians,” says Gary Upton, supervisor of the Toyota Express Maintenance Program at Toyota of Orange in Southern
Read moreCambodia’s automobile industry expressed strong concerns that the recent government decision to increase the rate of taxation levied on luxury and new cars imported into the Kingdom could seriously jeopardize their already small sales ‒ in a market dominated by imports of used cars of dubious origin ‒ and force many of them to lay off their staff. Antoine Jeanson,
Read moreInspired by Brexit, MEP Antanas Guoga (Tony G) has signalled the launch of a campaign which seeks to position Vilnius (Lithuania) as the perfect location for UK businesses now looking into the possibility of relocation options. This time, the focus of his attention is the automotive industry, which is anticipated to be one of the sectors most severely impacted by
Read moreThe Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the darling of the country’s top operator China Railway Corp, earned 23.4 billion yuan ($3.5 billion) last year, with a net profit of nearly 6.6 billion yuan, the National Business Daily reported on Tuesday. Net assets of the company’s subsidiary that runs the route reached 131.2 billion yuan by the end of 2015, and the debt-to-assets
Read moreIran’s Saipa Group CEO and Executive Member of the Board Mehdi Jamali told IRNA on Monday that his company will conclude an agreement with the major French automobile manufacture, Citroën, soon. He underscored that the contract fully accords with ‘Resistance Economy’, a set of policies outlined by the Supreme Leader, calling on the government to secure the utilization of the
Read moreMercedes-Benz India has launched the ‘My Mercedes-My Service’ campaign that introduces the first of its kind after sales and service support to new and existing customers. The new campaign comprises Digital Service Drive, Premier Express and Star Ease Maintenance packages that promise lowest cost of ownership for customers in the luxury space. India also turns out to be the second
Read moreUber hit 2 billion rides on June 18, CEO Travis Kalanick said in a Facebook post, six months after marking its first billion rides. The company, then, completed the same number of rides in six months as it did in the prior six years – due in part to its heavy spending to recruit drivers and passengers, which is made
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