Manufacturing

Tesla’s share price on the Frankfurt stock exchange has drifted down today after Elon Musk has suggested he would sell around 10% of his stock if a poll of Twitter users said he should. Musk tweeted on Saturday that he would offload 10% of his stock if users of the social media network approved the […]

Credit: LeoWolfert/Shutterstock Concept: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has developed a project called DeeperSense that combines visual and acoustic sensors with AI to improve the environmental perception of the robotic underwater vehicle. The project aims to improve the perception of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) in three use cases, namely diver monitoring in turbid

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Acura has revealed more details on the first-ever MDX Type S. The Acura 2022 MDX Type S will begin arriving at Acura dealers nationwide in early next year with pricing starting in the high $70,000 range. The third Type S model to debut this year, MDX Type S is a high-performance SUV built on MDX’s model-exclusive

New Zealand Motor Industry Association data showed October 2021 new vehicle sales rose 16.8% year on year to 13,870 units. Year to date volume was up 37.8% to 136,886 registrations compared to the first 10 months of 2020. October (spring) is traditionally a strong month for new vehicle sales in New Zealand. While sales were

Tesla is the automotive company best positioned to take advantage of future vehicle manufacturing disruption in the industry, according to GlobalData analysts. The US based firm comes top of the list in a ranking of overall leadership in the themes that matter most among vehicle manufacturing companies. These themes, which can be defined as any

Preliminary data gathered by GlobalData reveals that the West European light vehicle market fell by 28.8% year-on-year in October. This sits below GlobalData’s previous expectations for the month of a fall of 23.3%. The result marks the fourth consecutive monthly fall as the market continues to be constricted by inventory woes stemming from the global

General Motors said it would spend US$46m at its Parma, Ohio, metal stamping operation. That followed an announcement last year of a $6m spend to construct four new metal assembly cells to support increased truck production volume. The new investment would be used for equipment upgrades and to prepare the factory to support future product