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Volvo Cars, last week in Sweden, rallied the support of governments and regulators around the world to address a large inequality in road safety between developed and developing economies. The move came in view of the fact that though progress was made in recent decades, official data shows a significant ...

    Equipmake, the expert electrification company, is teaming up with HiETA, a  leading additive manufacturing organisation, to produce  AMPERE, the world’s most power dense permanent magnet electric motor.  Expected to be ready in 12 months’ time, as work has already commenced in the UK, the partnership  to develop the next-generation ...

One in five motor insurance customers were using a dash cam in 2019, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData’s 2019 UK Consumer Insurance Survey. Insurtech Inzura’s white-labeled dash cam offering has the potential to increase uptake considerably – reducing premiums for policyholders. Daniel Pearce, Senior Analyst at GlobalData said : “Inzura’s DashCam ...

  Following remarks by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) chief Dr Ralph Speth suggesting that the company faces a shortage of key components needed for its UK car plants, David Leggett, Automotive Editor at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, said the fears are pointer to the deepening supply-chains concerns ...

  Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation, Thursday,  announced that they have developed the world’s first predictive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Connected Shift System, enabling the vehicle to automatically shift to the optimal gear after identifying the road and traffic conditions ahead. Hyundai and Kia plan to apply ...

  Following the news that Fiat-Chrysler (FCA) is warning that it could halt production at a European plant in a matter of weeks, David Leggett, Automotive Editor at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has stated that the Coronavirus might trigger much unease and great worries in the automotive sector ...

  Autotalks, a world leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication solutions, Wednesday, said its chipset had been selected for a mass C-V2X programme in China, one of the first to be deployed in the huge Chinese market. This, according to the company, is the first mass-production C-V2X programme for Autotalks, which ...

With Whipple’s third-generation blower bolted in place, RGMotorsport’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 6.4 Hemi upgrade produces a Trackhawk-whipping 546kW and 928Nm – enough to propel the burly SUV to 100 km/h in an estimated 3,6 seconds and to a top speed of 290 km/h. That’s the news from South Africa’s ...

  Isuzu Motors South Africa in Port Elizabeth has started supplying knocked down (KD) Isuzu D-MAX pick-up kits for assembly purposes to its Isuzu manufacturing facility in Kenya. This represents the first intra-continental regional trade exchange of its kind for Isuzu on the continent and is aligned to its strategy ...