“NavIC is a GPS solution that is one of the most suitable for India, and thus should be used by automotive and electronics companies as they work on new products.” The government is planning to mandate chips embedded with ISRO’s NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) GPS solution for the automotive industry, giving precedence to India-made…
Ford has confirmed Switzerland as the second European market for the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck after Norway. The F-150 Lightning is coming to Switzerland this year in limited numbers, starting from late November when orders open in the Alpine country. The automaker did not say how may units are allocated for Switzerland. Ford’s electric…
Magna International Inc., one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, is investing more than US$790 million in the U.S. to build three new supplier facilities, two of which will be housed at Ford’s BlueOval City campus in Tennessee. In addition to the two West Tennessee locations, Magna will also build a stamping and assembly facility in…
Toyota, the maker of the bZ4X electric crossover, has partnered with Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu to make a mass-market solid-state battery that will be used in upcoming electric vehicles starting in 2027 or 2028, the two entities announced today. Leaving the obvious irony of a petroleum company that operates oil platforms making EV batteries aside,…
The new Mercedes-Benz eCitan is now available to order for UK customers, spearheading premium electric vehicles in the small van segment. Production and delivery of the L1 panel van variant are anticipated to take place next month, with orders for L2 versions following later this year and crew van models early next year. Designed with…
On Sunday morning, a brown-and-white capsule will shoot through Earth’s atmosphere to drop off a cache of pristine space rock to a team of eagerly waiting scientists and engineers. If successful, the sample return will be the end of a seven-year mission by NASA called OSIRIS-REX — which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resources Identification…
Ford announced the delay Monday and is in the midst of national contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which wants to represent workers at battery factories and win them top wages. More money is being pledged in Michigan for the development of a USD 3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford Motor…
“Our focus, we call it mobility and it includes all of them,” Sachin Tikekar, President and Joint Managing Director of KPIT, told ETAuto. New Delhi: The Pune-based Indian multinational corporation KPIT Technologies (KPIT), which provides embedded software and product engineering services mainly to passenger cars and commercial vehicles, plans to broaden its focus of operations…
Revamp Moto had earlier raised over $1 million in its pre-seed funding round from investors including Veda VC and Venture Catalysts besides Aman Gupta, Anupam Mittal, Ashneer Grover, and Peeyush Bansal on the show Shark Tank. New Delhi: Electric vehicles company Revamp Moto, which shot into prominence after its founders appeared on reality TV show…
Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) – literally, cars that run and add new features primarily through software updates – are quickly changing the automotive landscape, unlocking possibilities that were unthinkable a decade ago. Pushing software updates to vehicles over the air (OTA), a technology pioneered by Tesla, is becoming mainstream now as electric vehicles – which enable the highest…
