CAR TECH - ROBO DAILY

Toyota to replace Akio Toyoda as president and CEO

Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)

The Japanese automaker said Sato, 53, would also become operating officer when the changes to its executive structure take effect on April 1. Sato -- previously...

Tesla reports record profits, confirms long-term outlook

Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)

Elon Musk's electric vehicle (EV) company reported fourth-quarter profits of $3.7 billion, up 59 percent from the year-ago period as revenues jumped 37 percent ...

A fifth of new cars in California zero-emission in 2022: data

Jan 21, 2023 (AFP)

Last year officials set ambitious targets for boosting the number of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) on the roads, as they look to s...

Uber not planning layoffs: CEO

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

That is one key finding of a new study from MIT researchers that explored the potential energy consumption and related carbon emissions if autonomous vehicles a...

Bosch plans $1-bn Chinese electromobility site

Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)

The company said in a statement that the first phase of the multi-year project in the eastern city of Suzhou would be completed by mid-2024 and have a 300,000-s...

Insurers need to gear up for electric cars: Swiss Re

Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)

"Traditional vehicle insurance models are no longer enough to accurately capture the overall risk," a study by Swiss Re said. "We need risk models that can focu...

Greenpeace sues VW in Germany over CO2 emissions

Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)

The plaintiffs, the two heads of Greenpeace Germany and climate activist Clara Meyer, also want to force the world's second-largest carmaker to reduce emissions...

Toward standardized tests for assessing lidars in autonomous vehicles

Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)

This is achieved using light detection and ranging (lidar) technology, one of the most important and versatile components in AVs. Lidars provide a three-dimensi...

Auto industry races into metaverse at CES

Jan 07, 2023 (AFP)

One gadget on display in Las Vegas is an in-car television system, developed by French parts maker Valeo, that needs no remote. To change the channel, drivers o...

At CES tech mega-show, driverless cars show promise, limitations

Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)

Autonomous vehicles have long been pitched as the new dawn of transportation and the world's biggest tech companies have poured billions of dollars into being r...

EVs make up 80 percent of new car sales in Norway

Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)

Led by US carmaker Tesla, which topped the list with a 12.2 percent market share, 138,265 new electric cars were sold in the Scandinavian country last year, rep...

One dead in China highway pile-up involving hundreds of cars

Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)

Aerial pictures showed hundreds of passenger cars, vans and lorries -- many of which had smashed into one another -- piled up on one section of the highway in d...

Cyclists brave Lahore smog to convince drivers to ditch their cars

Dec 26, 2022 (AFP)

Each week around 100 adults and children, some wearing masks or scarves wrapped around their mouths and noses, jump on their bikes to cycle around landmarks in ...

US probing GM's autonomous driving unit after incidents

Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing two types of incidents that result in Cruise vehicles "becoming unexpected roadway obstacles," s...

One in five cars on Norway's roads are electric

Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)

"The snowball is rolling faster and faster and a growing number of good electric car models are on Norway's roads", the head of the association, Christina Bu, s...

Uber offers robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)

Las Vegas visitors are now offered trips in the Hyundai IONIQ 5 robotaxi, an all-electric SUV that was developed by Motional, a joint venture between the South ...

Jaguar reveals new Formula E car set to shape road models

Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)

The new third generation car -- dubbed the I-TYPE 6 -- is "lighter, more powerful and faster" than its predecessors, boasting a top speed of 200 miles per hour ...

South Korean capital launches self-driving bus experiment

Nov 26, 2022 (AFP)

The new vehicle does not look like a regular bus and has rounded edges as well as large windows that make it appear more like a toy than a technological breakth...

A greener ride: West Africans switch on to electric motorbikes

Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)

Motorcycle taxis are a popular and cheap form of transportation in West Africa. But in Benin and Togo, electric models are gaining the ascendancy over petrol-po...