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Spotify’s Car Thing Is a Cautionary Tale About Connected Automotive Products

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If you’re unfamiliar with what the product is due to the vague nature in which it was marketed, Car Thing is basically a Bluetooth remote relay for the Spotify app running on your phone and the speakers in your automobile. But Spotify’s connected music device is just a few months away from being a paperweight.

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First driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance developed for Toyota connected cars in Japan

Green Car Congress

have jointly developed Japan’s first driving behavior-based telematics automobile insurance. The plan is available to owners of certain units of Toyota connected cars, and uses driving data gathered via telematics technologies to adjust insurance premiums based on the level of safe driving every month. Background.

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Honda establishes Hynex Mobility Service JV in China; connected services

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Hynex Mobility Service will strive to advance connected services and offer new value users can enjoy through their connected experiences, while placing the primary focus on Honda CONNECT, Honda’s on-board connected system. Honda Motor (China) Investment Co., Honda is the second most sold brand in China after Volkswagen.

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DENSO and BlackBerry launch integrated automobile HMI platform

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The QNX Hypervisor features the ability to meet the precision requirement of an embedded zero-downtime production system. First revealed at CES in 2018, this blend of advanced software and human interaction creates a seamless automotive user experience as data-driven connected vehicles become reality.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

Baua Electric

Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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Honda to invest $40B over 10 years in electrification and software; launching 30 EV models by 2030; > 2M units p.a.

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In a press briefing held in Tokyo on its initiatives in automobile electrification, Honda announced that it will spend approximately ¥5 trillion (US$40 billion) in the area of electrification and software technologies to further accelerate its electrification over the next 10 years, including both R&D expenses (¥3.5 trillion / US$12 billion).

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TenneT and Daimler testing use of automobile battery systems for grid stabilization and recovery

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The project partners have shown in the Kamenz test lab that automobile battery storage systems can perform the job of system stabilisation for large-scale power plants. Electricity production is becoming considerably more volatile due to the increasing in-feed of weather-dependent forms of renewable energy.