All articles by Arjen Bongard – Page 73
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ArticleMcKinsey: China needs new EV strategy
China wants to boost EV sales to reduce traffic pollution (Photo: Anna Frodesiak/Wikimedia)China needs to boost sales of range-extended electric vehicles, rather than focus too heavily on pure EVs, according to McKinsey.In a study of the Chinese EV market, the strategy consultants say it will be at least 10 years ...
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ArticleBMW opens Connected Drive lab and Designworks studio in Shanghai
BMW’s design chief, Adrian van Hooydonk (center), discusses details of the Vision ConnectedDrive concept (Photo: BMW)BMW, stepping up its activities in China, said it has opened a Connected Drive lab and a design studio in Shanghai.The German premium car maker said its Connected Drive lab will allow key development initiatives ...
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ArticleBeing auto show: GM shows mobility concept
GM’s EN-V 2.0 concept provides a vision of future urban mobility (Photo: GM)General Motors showed a new version of its EN-V 2.0 mobility concept at the Beijing auto show, underlining the auto industry's resolve to address the changing requirement of mostly urban car drivers."The EN-V 2.0 concept would use technologies ...
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ArticleCadillac expects "self-driving vehicle" by mid-decade
Cadillac says it will be ready to build a self-driving or "semi-autonomous" vehicle by the middle of this decade.The luxury car brand of General Motors said it already has the technology to let cars manage themselves with the use of adaptive cruise control and lane centering software. Those technologies, which ...
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ArticleAudi acquires motorcycle maker Ducati
As expected, Audi said it is buying Italian motorcycle maker Ducati from the Investindustrial holding company, adding a twelfth brand to the Volkswagen Group's stable of brands.Terms weren't disclosed, but German press reports said the purchase price was around 860 million euros.Audi CEO Rupert Stadler cited Ducati's "great expertise in ...
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ArticleGenivi All Member Meeting - Paris
Genivi will hold its annual member meeting at Disneyland outside Paris April 24-27, with more than 500 participants scheduled to attend.The alliance, whose goal is to develop cross-industry software standards for the development of in-vehicle infotainment, groups automakers, automotive suppliers, telematics and mobile phone companies.Speaking at a Telematics Update conference ...
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ArticleTelematics Update: Room seen for embedded and smartphone-based connectivity
MUNICH ”” Cars will be connected to the internet through both embedded and smartphone-based systems, telematics executives said Wednesday.In a discussion of the pros and cons of the different approaches at a Telematics Update conference here, a panel of experts said the mode of connectivity depends on different factors."I see ...
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ArticleTelematics Update: Analyst says traffic is key telematics application
MUNICH -- Traffic information is the most important telematics application in the car, a senior market researcher said Wednesday."What's the value proposition of telematics? Clearly traffic is top of the list," said Roger Lanctot, associate director, global automotive practice, at market researchers Strategy Analytics.Lanctot, speaking at a Telematics Update conference ...
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ArticleQNX joins Car Connectivity Consortium
QNX Software Systems has joined the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), boosting the alliance's efforts to establish standards for smartphone-based connected vehicles.The goal of CCC, which counts among its members many of the world's major carmakers, automotive suppliers and consumer electronics and mobile phone firms, is to boost innovation and standardization ...
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ArticleA flying car or a street-legal airplane?
The production prototype of a street-legal airplane completed its first successful flight, raising the possibility that cars will one day fly - or airplanes will become a regular feature on the world's roads.The US based Terrafugia company said its Transition Street-Legal Airplane has also successfully conducted initial drive and conversion ...
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ArticleIBM boosts analytics capacity with Varicent acquisition
IBM has finalized the acquisition of Varicent Software in a move by the US IT services and software group to further grow its business analytics offering.Varicent, a privately held Canadian company, makes analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. The company's products will become part of IBM's Smarter Analytics ...
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ArticleIn pilot project, IBM connects Honda cars to US power grid
IBM says communication between EVs and the grid provides a "ground-breaking" boost to the eletric vehicle industry (Graphic: IBM)IBM, aiming to show how electric vehicles can interact with the power grid, has teamed up with Japanese carmaker Honda and US utility Pacific Gas and Electric in a pilot project to ...
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ArticleAutomotiveIT test-drives the LTE-equipped Audi A8
Audi is testing the new LTE mobile communication standard with a long-wheelbase A8 model (Photo: Audi)Carmakers are increasing their efforts to improve car connectivity through the introduction of LTE.The new standard, which is set to increase the speed and capacity of mobile communications, is still in the trial phase in ...
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ArticleHyperworks adds VehicleSim to partnership
Mechanical Simulation’s CarSim software simulates the dynamic behavior of passenger cars, racecars, light trucks, and utility vehicles (Photo: CarSim)Altair is expanding its Hyperworks computer-aided engineering software to include the use of Mechanical Simulation vehicle dynamics simulation tools.Altair, a US-based business software group, said in a press release that Mechanical Simulation's ...
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ArticleGermany's BITKOM: Basel III could hurt IT industry
EU member nations are planning to tighten rules governing bank lendingGermany's IT lobby warns that plans for a Europe-wide tightening of credit regulation under the so-called "Basel III" rules will negatively affect many small and medium-sized IT companies.The European Union is currently discussing new rules that would force banks ...
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ArticleBMW's i8 Concept Spyder further expands "i" brand
BMW unveiled a fourth new model in its "i" range, underscoring the carmaker's intentions to expand the new brand it is officially launching next year.The BMW i8 Concept Spyder is a plug-in hybrid powered by an electric motor and a gasoline combustion engine which, together, provide a combined output of ...
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ArticleVolkmar Denner to take over as Bosch CEO effective July 1
CEO Franz Fehrenbach (left) will head the Bosch supervisory board. He will be succeeded by Volkmar Denner (Photo: Bosch)Volkmar Denner, a Robert Bosch board member, will succeed Franz Fehrenbach as CEO of the world's largest automotive supplier July 1.Denner, 55, is currently board member in charge of corporate research and ...
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ArticleEmerging markets use more Cloud apps - study
Tata Consulting projects that Cloud-based applications will grow sharply by 2014 (Photo: Tata Consulting)Companies in emerging markets are leading the way when it comes to adoption Cloud-based application, according to a survey conducted by Tata Consulting Services.The US and Europe remain conservative about putting mission-critical and customer data in the ...
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ArticleAuto industry should better manage open-source software - BearingPoint
The use of open-source software in the car is increasing (Photo: Continental)The auto industry should better manage its use of free and open source software (FOSS), according to a recently published study by consultants BearingPoint.The industry is a big user of open source software, which is relatively inexpensive, easy to ...
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ArticleDaimler CEO: Connected cars is the only way to make money
Zetsche introduced the new Mercedes A-Class at the Geneva auto show this month (Photo: Daimler)Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche this week reaffirmed the premium car maker's commitment to new connected-vehicle technology across its product range."Soon you will not be able to make money anymore with cars that don't integrate customers' smartphones," ...
