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Autonomy orders 23,000 EVs from 17 automakers; $1.2B order covers 45 EV models

Green Car Congress

Autonomy, the nation’s largest electric vehicle subscription company, placed an order for 23,000 electric vehicles with 17 global automakers to expand and diversify its subscription fleet beyond Tesla. The fleet order is valued at $1.2 The 23,000-unit order represents 1.2% —Scott Painter, founder and CEO of Autonomy.

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Renault and Volvo team up on next generation electric vans

Baua Electric

The electric van market is heating up with new entries coming soon from Nissan , Mercedes , and even Kia – and now, even more players are getting into the market. The Flexis vans will be Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs) built around Google’s Android Auto operating system.

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moovel Group and SSB launching new mobility service in Stuttgart

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The new mobility service is based on the moovel on-demand platform, which enables the efficient operation of a demand-oriented, flexible fleet using intelligent journey management (routing), and the grouping of trip requests (pooling). The “Flex Pilot” app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. This summer (2015), Google will have several of its newest self-driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, its headquarters city. No one was hurt.

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Daimler Mobility AG & Geely Technology Group inaugurate ‘StarRides’ premium ride-hailing service in Hangzhou

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The 50-50 joint venture between Daimler Mobility AG and Geely Technology Group is based in Hangzhou, where services will be launched with a fleet of 100 vehicles including Mercedes-Benz S-Class, E-Class and V-Class vehicles. p>Customers can download the StarRides App in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

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The Tesla of vans? Renault and Volvo create Flexis to revolutionise electric light commercial vehicles

EV Central

Within the new van, Renault-Volvo bosses describe the new Flexis as a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) with an operating system based on Google’s Android OS that allows fleet operators to integrate their own software into the van via the Google Cloud.

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Mercedes-Benz previews its in-house developed operating system MB.OS

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Mercedes-Benz outlined its plans as the architect of its own operating system MB.OS, which will be introduced mid-decade with the new MMA platform (Mercedes Modular Architecture). Place Details provided by Google will be available starting today in all vehicles with the latest generation of MBUX in applicable markets.

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