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Founded in 1928, Hauliers, Longthorne of Hebden, in the Yorkshire Dales, is approaching its 90th birthday, and is into its third generation of management.Herbert Longthorne is the man responsible for founding the company, by buying a Chevrolet wagon for carting coal and cattle to local markets and thus founded a family business. In the 1930s the Chevrolet was replacedby a Bedford and Herbert was joined by his son Ken, who eventually took over run...

It has been announced by Sierra Wireless that PATEO has selected Sierra Wireless AirPrime AR series modules to enable cellular connectivity for its telematics units being installed in automotive vehicles for the China market. The automotive-grade AR series embedded modules began shipping to PATEO in Q1 2016, and the first deployment of their telematics units is in Geely’s vehicle platforms.

The Volvo Group will now demonstrate its self-driving truck for a broader audience, for the first time ever. The truck is part of a research and development project involving autonomous vehicles, intended to create greater business advantages for customers, mainly in the mining industry.

Volvo Cars is to begin the UK's most ambitious autonomous driving trial next year to speed up the introduction of a technology that promises to massively reduce car accidents as well as free up congested roads and save drivers valuable time. The Swedish company, whose name has been synonymous with automotive safety ever since it invented the three-point seatbelt in 1959, is pioneering the development of Autonomous Driving (AD) systems globally as...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are finding inspiration in evolution's biological counterparts in the development of a driverless truck. The first public demonstration of the vehicle will take place on a Dutch motorway on 28 May. That's when the truck will take part in a competition for autonomous vehicles, within the framework of an EU project called the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.

At a recent event in Beijing, it has been announced that car manufacturer Volvo will conduct a driverless car trial on public roads in an as yet unannounced city in the country.A spokesperson for Volvo, which is Chinese-owned, highlighted that autonomous cars are developing rapidly in China and actually has undertaken a far higher number of driverless cars tests than the more widely publicised Google trials in the US.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionising the automotive industry – pioneering the development of the connected car, driver assistance systems, road and traffic infrastructure and of course, in the future, the driverless car.Research in the US has shown a significant reduction in accidents between vehicles with, versus vehicles without safety systems, regardless of the cause i.e. improper lane change, unsafe speed, unsafe following di...

Microchip Technology has announced that MOST150 technology has been implemented in the Volvo V90. Volvo Cars has been utilising Microchip’s technology for many years and recently began utilising MOST150, the latest MOST technology from Microchip. MOST150 is the first standard to provide a proven, automotive-ready physical layer for Ethernet packet transport inside vehicles in accordance with the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specifications.

With few EVs passing key performance benchmarks of driving range and cost, the automotive industry received an overall failing grade for its EV offerings. In the inaugural 2016 edition of Lux Research’s annual 'EV Inflection Tracker', the industry earned just 27 out of a possible 100 rating, mainly because of high costs and limited offerings with a driving range of over 200 miles.

For decades, drivers have been accustomed to accessing and driving cars with physical keys. But no longer. In a ground-breaking move for the automotive industry, Volvo Cars plans to become the world’s first car manufacturer to offer cars without keys from 2017.