article thumbnail

General Motors acquires battery software startup ALGOLiON

Green Car Congress

General Motors has acquired substantially all the assets of Israel-based battery software startup ALGOLiON Ltd. ALGOLiON employees, including the company’s founders, will remain based in Israel and join more than 850 employees at the GM Technical Center in Herzliya, Israel. for an undisclosed sum.

article thumbnail

VisIC and ZF partner on R&D effort to develop EV inverter based on GaN semiconductor technology; focus on 400V

Green Car Congress

ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Israel-based VisIC Technologies Ltd., The inverter—which converts DC power from the traction battery to AC power that drives the motor—is a key part of the electric drive chain.

Taiwan 284
article thumbnail

Autotalks’ C-V2X ready for China, following successful interoperability and conformance testing

Green Car Congress

Israel-based Autotalks successfully showcased its V2X chipset’s conformance to the Chinese C-V2X standard and the Chinese OSCCA (Office of State Commercial Cryptography Administration) security standard in the first large-scale [link] of multi-brand C-V2X communication.

China 150
article thumbnail

First wireless charging road in the U.S. completed in Michigan

Teslarati

“If this was easy, it would have already been done,” said Todd Bettison, Detroit deputy mayor, at a recent event (via Automotive News ). The projects wireless charging projects are actively happening in Sweden, Norway, Italy, Israel and a handful of other countries on the continent. The project was partly funded by a $1.9

Michigan 129
article thumbnail

Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT

CN EV Post

DriveGPT is the first generative large model for autonomous driving that will reshape the technological path to automotive intelligence, the Beijing-based company announced today at its 8th Haomo AI Day event. Separately, Haomo chairman Zhang Kai said at today's event that in addition to the new Mocha DHT-PHEV, the second HPilot 3.0-equipped

PHEV 116
article thumbnail

Hyundai Motor bringing XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks to Israel

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor Company announced that its heavy-duty, hydrogen-powered XCIENT Fuel Cell truck is entering Israel, its first Middle East market, to establish a hydrogen value chain in the region. It will be used to procure parts for Colmobil, with a daily operation range of about 330 km.

Hyundai 259
article thumbnail

Renault opens Innovation Lab in Paris to focus on future of mobility

Green Car Congress

The establishment of Open Innovation Labs forms part of the culture and innovation strategy of the Renault-Nissan Alliance: they enable opportunities for innovation to be cultivated on the basis of an open ecosystem (startups, universities, investors) and the local economy (local authorities, community organisations, customers, the market).

Future 150