All articles by Arjen Bongard – Page 60
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ArticleAudi grows in China
Audi's digital showroom in Beijing is the first of its kind in Asia (Photo: Audi)Audi opened a new r&d center as well as a digital showroom in China, underscoring the importance of the world's largest auto market to the German premium car brand.The Volkswagen Group subsidiary opened its first ...
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ArticleKuka gets big German carmaking order in China
Kuka hopes its most recent order will help strengthen its position in the Chinese car market (Photo: Kuka)Kuka said it had received a major order to build a car body assembly line for a German premium carmaker in China.The German robotics and plant engineering group said its Chinese subsidiary ...
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FeatureAutomotiveIT Newsletter: An interview with VW CIO Martin Hofmann
CIO Hofmann wants Volkswagen to have the best IT in the auto industry (Photo: Claus Dick)After a decade working for the Volkswagen Group in various positions, Martin Hofmann became CIO of Europe's largest carmaker a year ago.He took on the position at a time when VW is trying to ...
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ArticleNeumann to become head of Opel
Neumann most recently was in charge of Volkswagen's Chinese operations (Photo: GM)Former Continental and Volkswagen executive Karl-Thomas Neumann will become the new CEO of Opel effective March 1.Neumann, 51, most recently headed VW's China operations but was replaced in that position several months ago. He takes over at Opel ...
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ArticleCAR Symposium: Dudenhoeffer says European car slump far from over
Dudenhoeffer says Western Europe still won't have fully recovered by 2020BOCHUM --The slump in European car sales is likely to last a bit longer than many people expect or hope, car expert Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer said Tuesday."Europe will come back very slowly," Dudenhoeffer told reporters attending the CAR Symposium here. ...
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ArticleCAR Symposium: Conti CEO provides automated driving timetable
Conti CEO Degenhart: In future, drivers can watch a movie while sitting behind the wheel(Photo: Arjen BongardBOCHUM -- Partially automated driving will be possible in three years, Continental CEO Elmar Degenhart said Tuesday.The head of the major German automotive supplier said that by 2016 some form of automated driving ...
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ArticleCAR Symposium: Volvo Cars CEO wants to double sales
CEO Samuelsson says "intuititve functionality" will define tomorrow's Volvos (Photo: Arjen Bongard)BOCHUM -- CEO Hakan Samuelsson wants to nearly double worldwide sales ofVolvo Cars in the next seven years.To accomplish this, he wants to strengthen the Swedish car brand, reduce complexity in its vehicle lineup and boost sales in ...
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ArticleDaimler, Ford and Nissan plan fuel-cell vehicle by 2017
Daimler started leasing a Mercedes B-Class-based FCEV in 2010 (Photo: Daimler)Daimler, Ford Motor and Nissan said they are planning to launch a mass-market fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) as early as 2017.The three automakers on Monday signed an agreement for the joint development of a fuel-cell system. The cooperation would ...
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ArticleGermany is site of Europe's fastest supercomputer
The Juqueen supercomputer has as much power as 100,000 PCs (Photo: Juelich Research Center)Researchers at the Juelich Research Center near Aachen in western Germany started work with a new high-performance computer that is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the fifth-fastest worldwide.The computer, which is an IBM BlueGene/Q system ...
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ArticleBMW, Toyota sign binding cooperation agreements
Toyota's Toyoda (left) and BMW's Reithofer agreed in 2012 already to intensify cooperation (Photo: BMW)Germany's BMW and Japan's Toyota have signed binding agreements that underscore the long-term nature of their cooperation in the field of sustainable mobility.The two car groups already agreed in June 2012 that they would jointly ...
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ArticleVW inaugurates solar park in Chattanooga
The Chattanooga facility is the largest of VW's solar parks (Photo: VW)Volkswagen has inaugurated its largest solar park worldwide at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The German carmaker said the solar park has a peak output of 9.5 megawatts and will generate power to build the US version of the ...
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ArticleT-Systems projects 1 billion euros cloud revenue by 2015
Like most IT service providers, T-Systems is selling more cloud services (Photo: Telekom)T-Systems expects to generate about 1 billion euros in annual revenue from cloud-based services by 2015, up 2.5 times from last year.The expected sales represent about one-seventh of total revenue at the business services division of Deutsche ...
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ArticleFord to hire 2,200 US workers this year
Ford Motor plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the US this year to support the planned rollout of a range of new vehicles.The US based carmaker said it added more than 8,100 hourly and salaried jobs in the US in 2012 as it increased production capacity and expanded its ...
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ArticleBosch sees gradual progression to autonomous driving
As driver-assistance technologies become more sophisticated, they will one day drive the car, Bosch says (Photo: Bosch)Increasingly sophisticated driver-assistance technologies will gradually make autonomous driving a reality, according to Robert Bosch."Fully autonomous driving will come about one step at a time," said Gerhard Steiger, president of the Chassis Systems ...
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ArticleGM to hire 1,000 staff for new US IT innovation center
GM CIO Mott plans to hire thousands of staff to bring IT services in-house (Photo: Larry Peplin)General Motors plans to hire about 1,000 IT specialists to staff a new Information Technology Innovation center near Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern part of the US.The hiring push will focus on software ...
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ArticleHP to host AVL's SAP applications in the cloud
AVL will depend on HP for the management of its SAP application infrastructure (Photo: AVL)HP will host AVL's SAP applications in a new hybrid cloud-based infrastructure.The US-based IT group said it has migrated a range of SAP applications used within AVL, deploying a cloud-based solution it says will boost ...
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ArticleCES: Lexus research vehicle has next-gen driver assistance
Lexus has equipped the research vehicle with a broad array of sensors (Photo: Arjen Bongard)LAS VEGAS -- A research vehicle based on the Lexus LS showed the direction safety technologies are likely to take in coming years, Toyota said.The Japanese carmaker showed a vehicle that is equipped with a ...
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ArticleCES: Mercedes shows Siri integration
Mercedes' Digital DriveStyle app will feature Siri voice operation (Photo: Daimler)LAS VEGAS - Mercedes-Benz will have full Siri integration in its next E-Class starting this spring.The German premium car maker said during the annual CES consumer electronics fair that Apple's voice software will be available in the E-Class for ...
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ArticleCES: Audi receives award for piloted driving system
An Audi test executive parks his car using an iPhone (Photo: Audi)Popular Science magazine has cited Audi's piloted driving system as "Product of the Future," while The Verge, an online technology publication, commended the system as "Best Automotive Technology" at this year's CES trade fair.Audi showed journalists coming to ...
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ArticleCES: Developers gain access to GM's infotainment
GM infotainment will soon feature customized apps (Photo: GM)LAS VEGAS ”“ Developers will be able to create in-vehicle apps for General Motors infotainment systems, after the US carmaker announced a software development kit for programmers.The kit will allow drivers to add apps and features to their cars after the ...
