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Will COVID-19 accelerate the shift towards EVs?
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced shoppers online, driving huge demand for home delivery. Moreover, growth has the potential to resume beyond the pandemic: in addition to consumer goods, the genie is out the bottle for home grocery delivery, which many consumers, having experienced it for the first time, will want to continue.
21st century automotive safety capabilities
Digital technology has developed in all sectors, including the travel industry with online booking platforms, and the press with digital newspapers and magazines accessible via smartphones. Then, we have access to mobile payments, digital music, and so on. But what about21st century automotive safety capabilities? Guest blog written byJonathan Gilpin.
ADAS: Rebirth for the automotive industry
At Yole, analysts estimate, the global market for radars, cameras, LiDARs and computingADAS should reach $8.7bn in 2020. Almost half of this market revenue will be generated by radars with $3.8bn, followed by cameras with $3.5bn. LiDARs will not be significant, accounting for$0.04bn and computing ADAS will generate $1.4bn.
Volvo receives Europe’s largest order for electric buses
Volvo Buses has received what is believed to be the largest single order for electric buses in Europe. Volvo Buses will deliver 157 electric articulated buses to Transdev starting in 2020. The buses will operate on a number of routes in Gothenburg. With their introduction, emissions and noise will be significantly reduced, and the electric buses will be able to operate in sensitive areas or zones with special restrictions.
Electric trucks launched for sustainable urban transport
Volvo Trucks has announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainable transport solutions in city environments.
Autonomous driving: peak car to arrive as early as 2031?
Autonomous driving technologies are disrupting the business models for the traditional auto industry. In the past decade, we have seen tech giants like Google and Baidu, as well as mobility service companies such as Uber and Didi joining the race with car companies to shape the future mobility system. Autonomous mobility can become a $1.4tn market by 2040 in terms of car sales.
Will autonomous driving shape the future of the mobility sector?
Autonomous driving is shifting the existing automotive supply chain from the traditional system of OEMs and suppliers to a collaborative ecosystem comprising OEMs, mobility service providers, software and hardware solution providers, and infrastructure providers. We have recently seen competitors joining hands and forming some unlikely-sounding alliances to reduce the cost of autonomous driving development, as well as to share resources and capab...
What does 2020 have in store for technology?
If 2019 (and let’s be honest, the entire last decade), has taught us anything it’s that we live in an uncertain and unpredictable world. What is certain is that technology will play an integral part in just about every aspect of society in the future. Here, experts at Imagination Technologies gaze into their crystal ball and offer some insight into how technology will advance across different industries over the next 12 months.
Remaining at the forefront of changing UK automotive industry
The UK automotive industry is rich and diverse, from stripped out track day monsters and mind-bending supercars to civilised luxury vehicles and new generation EVs. All need components on short lead times, despite great variance in vehicle production volumes. These OEMs require suppliers who can be flexible and deliver low or high volumes quickly with added cost-effectiveness. This is a flexibility that Mark Water Pumps Limited (MWPL) has brought...
First CeeD Scotland Engineering Awards enjoys success
Organisers have declared the first-ever CeeD Awards a great success, after over 500 delegates came together to celebrate Scotland's booming engineering sector. The Centre for Engineering Education and Development (CeeD) is working to build a national engineering community in Scotland, bound together by a common aspiration to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness and ultimately profit.