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Volvo takes largest order of electric trucks in the US
The VNR Electric model from Volvo Trucks North America is the first zero-tailpipe emission, battery-electric Class 8 truck in Performance Team’s fleet, which will be on the road by end of year. When put into service, all 16 vehicles will be carrying regional loads daily to customers across Southern California.
Tesla under scrutiny over phantom braking concerns
Dominating much automotive news this week are stories about Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ and Elon Musk’s desire to incorporate Steam gaming into his vehicles.
'Buckle up' for more mandated driver assistance
Autonomous vehicles will be a great thing – someday. But governments and regulators don’t want to wait until ‘someday’ to improve traffic safety.Gil Abraham, Business Development Director for CEVA’s Vision Business Unit discusses a recently-signed$1tn bill that includes a mandate for automakers to help prevent drunk driving, as well as the technology that such demands call for: driver monitoring systems.
New centre to accelerate industrial use of additive manufacturing
Sustainable materials combined with 3D printing or additive manufacturing, allows resource-efficient production to become more efficient.But for companies to be able to fully utilize the strength of the technology, support is needed in every step along the supply chain ranging from development of business models to product design and testing in a real production environment. Therefore, RISE is opening up the Application Center for Additive Manufa...
NVIDIA to host virtual GTC, hosted by CEO Jensen Haung
NVIDIA has announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from 8th-11th of November, featuring a news-filled keynote, hosted by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some preeminent AI researchers.
First serial electric fire truck
Volvo Penta has commenced production of bespoke electric drivelines for fire service vehicle manufacturer Rosenbauer’s pioneering fire truck, named ‘Revolutionary Technology’ (RT).
Foretellix closes $32m Series B funding
Foretellix, platform provider automating the testing, verification and validation for automated driving systems, has secured $32m in its latest Series B funding round, bringing its total raised capital to over $50m. The round was led by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from several strategic investors, including Volvo Group Venture Capital, Nationwide, NI and Japan-Israel High Tech Ventures. In addition, all series A investors, including 83N...
2021 EV Summit - Leading the future of decarbonised emobility
With an increase in EV demand, comes developments, disruption and a drive for collaboration. At the 2021 EV Summit (1st-2nd September 2021), the UK’s event for electric vehicles, manufacturers, infrastructure providers, government and local authorities and other stakeholders gathered to further the EV movement.
Volvo selects BlackBerry QNX dynamic software platform
BlackBerry has announced that Volvo Group has selectedBlackBerryQNX as the foundational software for its main domain controller ECUs in more than 300,000 heavy vehicles Volvo Group manufactures every year.
World Electric Vehicle Day: are EVs taking over?
World Electric Vehicle Day is here, presenting a great occasion to take a retrospective look at the past decade of innovation and disruption.