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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

At IAA Mobility, during his first in-person keynote since taking the helm of Intel in February, CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted that semiconductors will account for more than 20% of the total premium vehicle bill of materials (BOM) by 2030. He also detailed elements of the company’s previously announced IDM 2.0

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Volvo Cars will showcase a new service for direct delivery to a connected vehicle at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Via a smartphone or a tablet, the owner will be informed when a delivery company wants to drop off or pick up something from the car. The test-customers also indicated that the service clearly saved time.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

On the heels of an quarterly report marked by an underwhelming profit, and amid a general “lack of fitness” according to CFO Bob Shanks, Ford Motor announced that it is accelerating and expanding its activities in 2018 to deliver a broad suite of mobility products and services to personal vehicle owners, fleet owners and cities globally.

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MAY 15, 2017

Volvo Cars announced a “close” partnership with Google to develop the next generation of in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android, offering access to a wide array of apps and services. We will offer hundreds of popular apps and the best integrated experience in this broad, connected environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Ricardo has partnered with UK-based technology company Brightec to develop a smartphone app which will enable hybrid vehicles to sense that they have entered a clean air zone and encourage a switch to electric mode. These will provide transport authorities with recommendations to reduce emissions and improve air quality.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

The Blockchain Lab has moved forward with initiatives for using blockchain technology including, to date, verifying the usefulness of the technology through demonstration trials, and global collaboration with Group companies. In this regard, Toyota Blockchain Lab will expand collaborations more with its various partner companies.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

have signed a global, multi-year agreement to partner on next-generation technologies to advance connected driving experiences worldwide. The companies will work together to develop next-generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure, one of the company’s intelligent cloud offerings.

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APRIL 22, 2015

PSA Peugeot Citroën and IBM announced a partnership to help various industries within the Internet of Things economy to analyze data to deliver new services from connected vehicles. The seven-year agreement will focus on commercializing services and building next-generation technical solutions necessary to deliver connected services.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

This new LEAF will build on the company's leadership in electric vehicles, which includes having sold more than 250,000 Nissan LEAFs sold worldwide since 2010. SAM will also benefit companies that wish to deploy fleets of commercial autonomous vehicles, including delivery companies, taxi services and transportation systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

At the BMW AG Annual General Meeting in May 2018, Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management at the BMW Group, said that the iNext would provide its building blocks for the future, from which the entire company and all of its brands are set to benefit. Personal mobility is set to experience significant change.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Together with other companies and organisations, the BMW Group is involved in shaping and developing a set of rules for working with AI, and the company has taken an active role in the European Commission’s ongoing consultation process. The BMW Group respects human dignity and therefore sets out to build fair AI applications.

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MARCH 2, 2025

Ten years later, at the CES tech trade show in January, Angus was showing off her dancing moves in a powered exoskeleton from the Canadian company Human in Motion Robotics. The Origin of the XoMotion Exoskeleton Angus, who works as Human in Motions director of lived experience, has been involved with the company and its technology since 2016.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company unveiled at CES 2020 its vision for urban mobility to help vitalize human-centered future cities. UAM combines Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) and urban air mobility services to make airspace available for transportation. UAM connects the sky and the ground, while PBV links people to people on the road.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The new VersiCharge XL concept was created to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and efficiently by using a modular, scalable design made in partnership with Nexii Building Solutions (Nexii) using their proprietary, sustainable building material with low carbon footprint.

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APRIL 12, 2022

Such core areas are: electrified products and services, battery, energy, Mobile Power Pack, hydrogen and software/connected technologies that connect all core areas. Separately, aside from GM, Honda is exploring the possibility of creating a joint venture company for battery production. Connected / software technologies.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

At CES 2017, Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America introduced the Panasonic Cognitive Infotainment platform designed to provide OEMs and fleet providers a set of cognitive vehicle solutions combining Panasonic’s infotainment expertise with IBM’s Watson and cloud technologies. Panasonic, Qualcomm and Android.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Old-fashioned telecommunication carriers are falling behind in the global bandwidth race as global giants of content and cloud computing are building their own global networks. Facebook has commissioned electronics and IT giant NEC Corporation to build the world's highest capacity submarine cable.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., have entered into an agreement to create ChargeScape, LLC, a new equally-owned company that will create a single, cost-effective platform connecting electric utilities, automakers and interested electric vehicle customers.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Ford Motor Company is researching new smartphone-based communications technology that could potentially help warn drivers of pedestrians, bicyclists and more—even those approaching a vehicle’s path but blocked from a driver’s view. BLE connectivity technology creates wireless personal area networks using radio waves in the 2.4-gigahertz

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The result of an ongoing project that builds on more than a decade of Ford’s automated driving research, the Fusion Hybrid automated vehicle will test current and future sensing systems and driver-assist technologies. The Fusion Hybrid research vehicle builds on driver-in-control studies conducted in Ford’s VIRTTEX driving simulator.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

We’re moving toward a transportation system of reduced personal car ownership. As that transportation shift progresses, motor companies are interested in opening up secondary markets for their vehicles. They will also conduct surveys to determine how people’s opinions change about electric vehicles before and after driving one.

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JUNE 4, 2021

United Airlines announced a commercial agreement with Denver-based aerospace company Boom Supersonic to purchase 15 of Boom’s Overture supersonic airliners, once Overture meets United’s safety, operating and sustainability requirements, with an option for an additional 35 aircraft. Capable of flying at speeds of Mach 1.7—twice

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Momenta is committed to developing breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions to push beyond the frontier of possibilities today and significantly improve personal mobility experiences. —Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. —Xudong Cao, CEO of Momenta.

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MAY 2, 2014

And you would think that would be especially true for anyone running to become our United States representative from the 33rd Congressional District – the person who will be following the great Henry Waxman in that position. That’s why I am wholeheartedly endorsing her as my choice in this election.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation. It took us a long time to get the data needed to let us connect to the grid. Importance of advanced power electronics.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). Sina is an online media company serving China and the global Chinese communities.

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JULY 16, 2014

Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility, which was originally announced by Executive Chairman Bill Ford ( earlier post ), outlines what the company believes transportation will look like in 2025 and beyond, and the technologies, business models and partnerships needed to get there. Connected vehicles Personal Transit Sustainability Urban mobility'

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is designed to connect the major aspects of the company’s value chain, including development, production, omni-channel commerce and services—effectively making it an operating system for the entire Mercedes-Benz business. Within MB.OS, everything will be fully connectable through the Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Cloud.

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MAY 8, 2025

So my response to the inquiry is simple: I seek to live an integrated life where work and personal joy are not in conflict but in harmony. By doing so, I bring them into the ups and downs of my entrepreneurial journey of running five technology companies. Dont view work as something that competes with your personal life.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Starting in early 2017, OnStar is expected to give millions of GM drivers the ability to connect and interact with their favorite brands. The platform will deliver personalized content through the dashboard and other digital channels supported by the OnStar Go ecosystem to make the most of time spent in the car.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The MEB will be the foundation for an entirely new generation of battery-electric vehicles designed not only to be electric and feature extended range, but to be connected, autonomous, open and priced for the volume market as required by Volkswagen’s positioning. It is clear that building excellent cars will not in itself be enough.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), the newly formed mobility joint venture between Honda and Sony ( earlier post ), held a press conference announcing its establishment and outlining its direction and approach to becoming a software-oriented “Mobility Tech Company” providing high value-added products and services.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung focused on connected technologies for the automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, has expanded its relationship with Baidu, the leading Chinese Internet and web services company, to develop jointly new cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at Chinese automakers.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 28, 2025

The company has unveiled two innovative electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft: the LEO Coupe and LEO Solo, designed for personal travel and urban air mobility. With a 20-mile range and a cruising speed of 63 mph, it's ideal for personal flights over congested areas. Share your thoughts below!

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JUNE 2, 2012

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”.

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