Urban Mobility
AAA offers roadside assistance vehicles capable of giving electric car drivers a boost if they ran out of electrons while on the road. AAA currently has about 54,000,000 members. Each year, it gets over 32 million calls to help stranded motorists — half of them from drivers who have run out of gas. It seemed likely to AAA management that drivers of
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Tesla has registered its corporation and soon will operate its Corporate Office in Seoul. Due to the dominance of local duo Hyundai-Kia of the Korean market, Tesla Motors was reluctant to invest in the Korean market until it can guarantee a partner that can provide internet services to run its vehicles’ software and updates. After Elon Musk announced that the
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EZ10, a two little box-shaped battery-electric self-driving buses are in service, hauling passengers on the streets of Helsinki‘s Hernesaari district. Without a steering wheel or gas and brake pedals, the “EZ10″ buses navigate the streets while contending with motorists and pedestrians. France-based EasyMile, the EZ 10 bus is a joint venture between two other French companies — automaker Ligier and robotics
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Ford Motor Company has announced plans to release an all new traditional named Electric Vehicle Model-E, which Ford states will be an affordable electric car that will be able to reach 200 miles per charge. The commercialization date for this vehicle is allegedly in Spring 2019. This Model E vehicle will be an all-out hybrid vehicle capable as either a
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Enhancing the safety of autonomous driving requires more detailed information than the capability of exiting car navigation systems, such as the numbers of traffic lanes and their widths, the locations of traffic lights, utility poles and road signs and the slope angles of roads. The consortium of companies, including Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and map publisher Zenrin Co., aim to complete
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Good news for car dealers, the search giant rolled out changes to its search-ad format in late July that give dealers more characters to work with; meaning more descriptive in their sales ads. Instead of having one 25-character headline, the new Google AdWords format now has two headlines of 30 characters each that will allow dealerships to write more attention-grabbing
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According to the electric car industry on August 18, the Chinese car industry launched six new electric car models last month; at least 11 new electric car models will be launched in China in the second half of this year. By contrast, the second half of this year will see the launch of only one new electric car model, the
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Lyft is still on track to lose no more than $600 million this year, excluding legal settlements. That is in line with the $50 million monthly cap on spending it promised investors back in April. The second most valuable ride-hailing service in the country, may have attempted to sell itself to Apple, Google, Amazon, General Motors and even ride-sharing rivals
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Tata Motors has delivered first 50 cars under the ‘Tata Offer’ to drivers on the Uber platform in Benguluru. The “Tata Offer” program provides driver partners on the Uber platform a comprehensive vehicle purchase and ownership solution with a down payment of Rs 30,000 and a funding within seven to 10 days. Tata Motors Regional Manager Passenger Vehicle Business Unit (PVBU)
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German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH was a “knowing and active participant” in a decade-long scheme by Volkswagen AG to evade U.S. emissions laws, according to lawyers for U.S. owners of polluting VW diesel vehicles. In a court filing late on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the lawyers cited confidential documents turned over by the German automaker to
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