Manufacturing

Qualcomm Technologies has announced a collaboration to bring the latest advancements in driver assistance technologies, and products of its Snapdragon Ride Platform, to BMW Group’s next generation of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) platforms. BMW Group and Qualcomm Technologies will extend their long-standing relationship and BMW’s next generation Automated Driving stack will […]

Vietnam’s new vehicle market continued to fall in October 2021, by 14% to 27,149 units from 31,607 units a year earlier after plunging by 54% in September, according to wholesale data released by the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association (VAMA). The government began to ease its tough lockdown restrictions in large parts of the country in

Tesla’s North American battery partner, Panasonic has shown a prototype of the new 4680-format cylindrical battery cell. The format was first shown by Tesla at its ‘Battery Day’ in September 2020 and led the automaker to claim that EVs equipped with this cell would travel 16% further than vehicle’s equipped with today’s cell technology. However,

The Toyota Canada Foundation has announced it will be funding scholarships for Indigenous students pursuing post-secondary education in automotive technology. Toyota Canada Foundation scholarship recipients will be selected and awarded by Indspire’s Building Brighter Futures: Bursaries, Scholarships and Awards program, which enables First Nations, Inuit and Métis students to pursue post-secondary education and overcome financial barriers

South Korean battery foil manufacturer Solus Advanced Materials Company reported this week the acquisition of its former Canadian copper foil manufacturing plant, as it its looks to increase its exposure to the North American market. Solus Advanced Materials was previously known as Doosan Solus, when it was owned by Doosan Group between 2014 and 2020,

Jorm Sangsorn via Getty Business leaders are still worrying about artificial intelligence (AI), but with Facebook pushing hard into the metaverse, augmented reality (AR) has also proven a massive concern for corporate chieftains. That’s according to analytics firm GlobalData. The company defines a theme as any issue that keeps chief executives awake at night. In

ZF says it is entering the next phase of digitalization by expanding its strategic collaboration with Microsoft. Microsoft will create a holistic data and integration platform, the ZF Cloud, to digitalize all of ZF’s industrial and operational production and business processes on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. ZF says the new capacities will process the

Electric and hydrogen truck company, Tevva, has raised US$57m by way of an over-subscribed private placement from new and existing investors to fit out its new London based production facility and scale up manufacturing. The fundraising follows the launch of the new Tevva Truck, the company’s first 7.5-tonne electric lorry designed for mass production. The

Faurecia has said that the additional acceptance period for the voluntary public takeover offer launched on 27 September 2021 by Faurecia for Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA expired on 11 November 2021 and a total of 21,662,359 shares have been tendered during the offer period by Hella shareholders. Together with the shareholding of 60% to

McLaren is based in Surrey, southern England Supercar and motorsports specialist McLaren has denied that it has been bought by Audi, as reported by UK magazine Autocar. Autocar’s report citing an unnamed source, said that Audi had purchased the whole group in order to secure entry into Formula 1. In a statement, McLaren said the