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Nissan has developed a new way to use robots to make car parts out of sheet steel, a breakthrough that could make replacement parts for discontinued models more widely available for customers. Nissan said it hopes to commercialise the proprietary technique, known as dual-sided dieless forming. The technique involves two ...

Bridgestone has announced that it would supply solar car tyres using its fuel-efficient tyre technology to 32 teams participating in the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC), for which it is the naming rights sponsors. Held in Australia once every two years, the BWSC is the world’s foremost solar car ...

  Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, a global technology company that develops safer, greener and more connected solutions enabling the future of mobility, Monday, announced that they will be forming an autonomous driving joint venture. This partnership brings together one of the industry’s most innovative vehicle technology providers ...

Preparations are in top gear for the West Africa Automotive Show (WAAS), a new international trade exhibition, aimed at  bringing the region’s automotive parts industry together under one roof in Lagos. For three days in November,  about 100 exhibitors from Nigeria and other countries would be gathering to network, forge ...

  C2A Security, a global leader in automotive cybersecurity, Thursday in Frankfurt, Germany,  announced a comprehensive automotive security solution, developed in collaboration with NXP, utilizing NXP Semiconductors’ secure CAN (Controller Area Network) transceivers. Designed to provide comprehensive protection to help automotive OEMs get the upper hand on some of the ...

Bridgestone is using increasing amounts of technology to help fleet owners get the maximum use from their vehicles while reducing costs. Trucking and logistics businesses are facing severe challenges. Input costs like diesel and labour are steadily creeping up, and poor economic conditions mean that volumes are down. ‘ “The ...

  International automotive technology supplier, ERM Advanced Telematics , whose products are installed in more than five million vehicles worldwide, has been making progress since the expansion of its activities from telematics solutions for locating and tracking vehicles, drivers and passengers, to a complimentary field of IoT (Internet of Things). ...

Economic pressure is making South African motorists push their tyres much further than the safe threshold of their lifespan, leading to an increase in vehicle accidents. Dries Venter, Technical Manager at Bridgestone South Africa, explains how a multi-agency approach can help personal and business drivers make better decisions to save ...

Israeli startup, TriEye, whose Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology enables vision in adverse weather and night-time conditions, has expanded its Series A round to $19 million with an investment from the German sports car manufacturer Porsche. The additional funding, according to a statement, will be used for ongoing product development and ...

  In what has been described as a milestone and a world’s first, Autotalks, a global leader in V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication solutions and China’s Datang, a leader in developing C-V2X communications standards and the provider of system solution of C-V2X, have successfully tested chipset-level interoperability of their respective solutions for C-V2X ...