Urban Mobility
For Danish startup Spiri, It’s self-drive carpooling service promised to get you where you need to be for free if you’re the driver, or at about the price of a bus ticket for passengers. While other ride-sharing services are seeking to bring costs down in the long-term with the development of autonomous vehicles, Spiri wants to give everyone the convenience
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Europe continues to test the waters of shared vehicle ownership models, and the Amber One is a car designed to help eliminate the huge amount of time our own vehicles currently spend idle. The all-electric concept has a 250-mile range on a single charge, a top speed of over 93 mph, and a 0 to 60 time of a respectable 7 seconds. But
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The rivalry between Uber Technologies Inc. and GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. expanded to a new front Friday, when Grab said it was teaming up with self-driving car company nuTonomy in Singapore. Selected Grab customers in the city-state will be able to register to use the ride-hailing app to book a nuTonomy vehicle. The rides will be free, though restricted to
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Apple Inc., which is working to build an electric car, has held talks about investing in British sports-car maker McLaren Technology Group, according to a person familiar with the matter, but McLaren denies any talks are ongoing. The person familiar with the matter said the discussions began “several months ago” but wouldn’t discuss whether they are ongoing. The person familiar
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Europcar has bolstered its electric vehicle (EH) fleet after making the biggest ever UK order of the Renault ZOE, ordering 55 of the fully electric cars for use in the delivery and collection of hire vehicles. The EVs will be used by Europcar employees to deliver rental vehicles to customers and have been selected in an effort to contribute towards
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Package delivery company United Parcel Service Inc said on Monday it will expand its 3D printing services to Asia with a new facility in Singapore run by its partner Fast Radius that will open by the end of 2016. UPS rolled out a similar service in May in the United States. The company owns an undisclosed stake in Fast Radius,
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It might soon overtake most of its brick-and-mortar rivals in fashion sales, as well. For the past decade, fashion brands had viewed Amazon as the enemy. Brands swore off selling goods on Amazon, bemoaning its cluttered website and the risk of counterfeit goods. Many reluctantly started their own websites, but continued to rely on department stores for the bulk of
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Brisbane will be home to a design and manufacturing hub producing the world’s first commercial and road- registered fully solar powered electric cars. A new facility for the project at Macarthur Avenue, Eagle Farm was opened by Queensland’s Minister for Energy, Mark Bailey, yesterday. The solar-electric cars will be made by Team Arrow. You may have heard the name before
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HONG KONG, CHINA–(Marketwired – Sep 20, 2016) – Arrow Electronics, Inc., (NYSE: ARW) the global technology company providing products and services that guide innovation forward, today announced it provided technology framework and guidance to support the development of Hong Kong’s first concept electric vehicle (EV) through the EVTech Makerthon project organized by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation
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Beijing CH-Auto Technology Co., which started out in 2003 as a designer of cars, has clinched one of China’s coveted permits to build electric vehicles, according to people with knowledge of the approval process. The National Development and Reform Committee, which regulates China’s automobile industry, has given CH-Auto permission to assemble electric cars, according to the people, who asked not
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