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Extended-Range Electric Cab on Test in London
So if London mayor Boris Johnson likes your car is it a good thing?
Volvo Readies Full Self-Driving Vehicle System
Volvo Car Group expects to begin testing a fleet of 100 self-driving cars in Gothenburg, Sweden, about two years from now.
Audi Adds Fenceless Robot to Help Human Worker
Audi AG has installed a robot that works without a safety barrier aside a human worker on a final assembly line at its factory in Ingolstadt, Germany.
Apple Sued for Poaching Engineers to Launch Battery Business
Electric vehicle battery maker A123 Systems LLC has sued Apple Inc. for luring away five top engineers to help it develop a battery division, Law360.com reports.
Autonomy’s Killer App... Autonomous Parking
Autonomous cars have a lot of rolling resistance ahead of them. But who could resist autonomous parking?
Mahindra Plans Test Track and Factory Complex
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. intends to spend 40 billion rupees ($644 million) over seven years to build a test track and auto assembly plant in Tamil Nadu, India, the Economic Times reports.
Tesla’s Battery Factory to Begin Operations Next Year
Tesla Motors Inc. says the giant electric-car battery plant it is constructing in Nevada will begin initial operations in 2016, about one earlier than originally expected, The Nikkei reports.
Honda Drops 2017 Sales Target Amid Quality Woes
Honda Motor Co. has shelved plans to push its annual sales volume to 6 million units by 2017.
Tesla Plans Home Energy Storage System
Tesla Motors Inc. plans this spring to debut a home energy storage system that combines solar panels and a lithium-ion battery, according to CEO Elon Musk.
Focus Gets Enhanced Stability Control
This is a 2015 Ford Focus that is evidently parked: and then, if things are really going pear-shaped, to a spinout. (Given the surface of where the Focus is located, which is undoubtedly a test track, the driver of that vehicle has been trying to make the car do things that the rest of us never want to experience in our daily driving.) So Ford engineers have come up with a way to mitigate that, a capability they’re calling “enhanced traditional stability technology.” This, according to Ford, makes the assessment within 100 to 200 milliseconds.