Dyson going to build a different electric car
Ready for 2020 but expensive
British inventor Sir James Dyson is planning to build a “radically different” electric car which will be on sale in 2020.
Qualcomm develops car-to-everything chip
A step towards auto autos
Qualcomm has introduced a new Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) chipset and reference design that aims to bring automakers one step closer to deploying the communications systems necessary for fully autonomous vehicles.
Apple defends itself against claims that it is responsible for fanboy car crashes
Fanboys claim Apple should have protected them
Apple fanboys have taken Jobs’ Mob to court for not doing enough to protect them while driving.
Hyundai puts electric at the centre of cunning plan
Looks like petrol will be gone
Hyundai says it is placing electric vehicles at the center of its product strategy - one that includes plans for a premium long distance electric car as it seeks to catch up to Tesla.
Tesla installs camera inside car
What does it hope to learn about the driver?
The car maker Tesla might be finding itself in hot water after installing a camera inside the car to monitor the driver.
Toyota will release solid state battery
Ready for electric cars
Toyota is in production engineering for a solid state battery, which uses a solid electrolyte instead of the conventional semi-liquid version used in today's lithium-ion batteries.
Volvo will give up on completely petrol cars by 2019
Out of gas
Volvo has announced that starting in 2019, all of the new models it produces will be electric or hybrid.
Nvidia joins Volvo-based self-driving car consortium
Level Four self-driving by self-driving by 2021
Autoliv and Volvo Car Corporation, with Zenuity, a newly-formed automotive software development joint venture equally owned by Autoliv and Volvo, will work together with Nvidia to develop next generation self-driving car technologies.
Connected car demand to rise 29.1 percent
Fuji Keizai claims 90 percent will be connected by 2035
Demand for connected cars has been rising and the type of vehicles are expected to account for 29.1 percent of overall car shipments in 2017 and by 2035, according to beancounters at Fuji Keizai.
BlackBerry pipped in car market
Only days after thinking it was going to save its bacon
Only a few days after BlackBerry announced that getting into the motoring business was helping it climb back from the dead, it has had to downplay news that Toyota would adopt rival software for its future vehicle consoles.