BROWSING: electric vehicles

UK-based BT Group is looking to repurpose old street cabinets, traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling, as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The firm’s innovation startup unit, Etc., has announced a series of pilots, starting in Scotland, to enable street cabinets to...

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is to work with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) to jointly develop new compute and connectivity platforms for software-defined electric vehicles, offering varying degrees of autonomy. Foxconn will use NXP’s chip portfolio to produce electronic componentry for electrification, connectivity, and...

According to the Head of Automotive at Ericsson Magnus Gunnarsson, the auto industry is undergoing a speedy transition into new business models that are driven by software and underpinned by cloud connectivity and the advancement of electric vehicles (EVs). He told Enterprise IoT Insights,...

UK-based chip design company Arm has announced new software architecture and hardware platforms for emerging software-defined automotive systems, including for driver assistance, infotainment, electrified powertrains, and ultimately for autonomous vehicles. The new releases are designed to enable the automotive industry to build powerful new...

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The UK-headquartered operator said the UK government should create a regulatory and policy framework that...

Hitachi has acquired automotive software developer Seneos, based in Germany, for an undisclosed fee. The deal, by Hitachi Automotive Systems, bolsters the Japanese firm’s software capabilities in the automotive space, as the tide of vehicle connectivity, electrification, and automation places increasing focus on software. In...

German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies is investing €1.6 billion in a new, fully automated factory for producing 300-millimeter thin wafer chips in Villach, in Austria. It has recruited German data integration and analytics firm Software AG to underpin the new site’s manufacturing execution (MES)...

European law makers must make good on the significant upswing in momentum among Europe-based car makers towards vehicle electrification by ensuring cities have proper infrastructure and incentives to change behaviour of motorists. Car makers have earmarked €145 billion in electrification, but their success requires...

Cities must use all new mobility options, starting with shared and electric vehicles, if they are to decrease vehicle emissions by as much as 95 per cent by 2050. Focus on autonomous vehicles should come after immediate groundwork has been laid with shared high...

Bosch discusses automotive opportunity during Electronica 2018 In 2016, every newly registered vehicle globally had nine Bosch chips on board, on average, the German manufacturer told Electronica 2018 in Munich last week. The multiplicity and value of the chips in vehicles is only spiralling upwards,...

Volta currently has smart grid electric vehicle charging stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Honolulu and Chicago. Volta has teamed with eMotorWerks to incorporate the latter's smart charging technology throughout its nationwide network of smart grid stations. By using eMotorWerks hardware and software...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his "biggest epiphany of 2016:" what really matters in production are the machines building the machines. In an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman, Musk said that creating the machines that are to build Tesla automobiles is at least...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his "biggest epiphany of 2016:" what really matters in production are the machines building the machines. In an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman, Musk said that creating the machines that are to build Tesla automobiles is at least...