Valeo & Wheego gets Self-Driving Vehicle Testing Permits

California State Department of Motor Vehicles said last week that both companies received approval for programs to test self-driving vehicles on public roads in California. Valeo is a unit of French auto supplier Valeo SA, which joins several other parts makers trying to develop technology that auto makers may need to put self-driving cars on the road. Wheego, a privately held

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Australia Post to Start Trial on Electric Delivery Vehicle

The new electric delivery vehicle has 3 times the parcel carrying capacity of current motorbikes used by Australia Post and can hold up to 100 small parcels and 1,200 letters at a time. According to the Managing Director of Australia Post, Ahmed Fahour it will be introduced in major cities from early next year. Mr Fahour said the boom in online shopping had transformed

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Mahindra Eyeing China’s Electric Vehicle Market

According to Arvind Mathew, chief executive officer of Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt Ltd, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.’s electric car unit is looking for a joint venture partner in China to manufacture and sell EVs. “We are continuously looking at the Chinese market to build up scale,” Mathew said in an interview Thursday, declining to say whether Mahindra Electric is already

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BestMile Participates in ITS World Congress 2016

BestMile is currently exhibiting at ITS World Congress 2016 taking place in Melbourne from October 10th to 14th. Visit BestMile stand #2911 and discover the magic behind its platform. One year after launching its fleet management and optimisation platform for autonomous vehicles in Bordeaux, BestMile is exhibiting again at ITS World Congress. This year, the Swiss company announced its partnership

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BestMile and Trapeze join forces to bring autonomous mobility to cities all around the globe

Trapeze is entering the autonomous mobility revolution with partner BestMile to offer public transport agencies the world’s first solution for managing hybrid fleets with both autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles. Lausanne & Neuhausen am Rheinfall, 10 October 2016 – The young Swiss company BestMile has specialized in fleet management and optimization for autonomous vehicles. In future, BestMile will work together closely

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Green Commuter Secures $750,000 Grant for Electric Car Sharing Service

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Green Commuter, the innovative clean energy company launching and managing a fleet of zero-emission vehicles, today announced it received a $750,000 grant from the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) to launch an electric car sharing service in the Tennessee city. Later this month, Green Commuter will launch its fleet of 20 Nissan Leafs that will be parked

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Speed Isn’t Everything: It’s Control that Online Shoppers Crave in e-Commerce Logistics

– DHL survey finds that online shoppers value choice of delivery times and locations over the speed of their deliveries – Online shoppers also want greater visibility of their orders, including easily-accessible shipment tracking and the delivery company responsible BANGKOK, Sept. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — E-tailers will only remain competitive if they give customers greater control over where, when, and

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China Ride-Sharing-Hailing Didi Wants a Self-Driving Car Too!

In an interview with Bloomberg, Didi founder and CEO Cheng Wei said he is hunting for data scientists in Silicon Valley to develop a self-driving car. Didi Chuxing bought Uber China in a $35 billion deal over the summer. Cheng added that he’s also been in talks with Gansha Wu, the former director of Intel Labs who also founded UiSee Technology, a Beijing-based self-driving car

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Malaysia Aims to Have 100,000 Electric Cars on the Road by 2020

According to an interview report by Channel NewsAsia  with Malaysian Green Technology Corporation’s chief executive officer Ahmad Hadri Haris, the Malaysian government is in partnership with Tesla Motors to supply Tesla Electric Vehicles to Malaysian government linked agencies. This is a one-off understanding between Green Tech Malaysia and Tesla Motors to supply 100 units of Model S in Malaysia, which was made possible

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