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Volvo Car Mobility launches mobility brand M; market debut in 2019

Green Car Congress

M will learn about its user’s needs, preferences and habits, personalizing the customer relationship. It will debut in Sweden and the US in the spring of 2019. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company.

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Volvo Car Mobility launches mobility brand M; market debut in 2019

Green Car Congress

M will learn about its user’s needs, preferences and habits, personalizing the customer relationship. It will debut in Sweden and the US in the spring of 2019. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company.

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Geely launches Lynk & Co; a new electrified and connected global car brand

Green Car Congress

China-based automaker Geely has launched Lynk & Co —a new global car brand designed and engineered in Sweden; every model will feature an electrified powertrain. Geely Auto Group is a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group—the owner of Volvo Cars and London Taxi Company. —Andreas Nilsson, Head of Lynk & Co design.

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EU SARTRE Project Targets Autonomous Road Trains; Enhanced Safety and Lower Fuel Consumption

Green Car Congress

Part-funded by the European Commission under the Framework 7 program, SARTRE will be led by Ricardo UK Ltd and will be a collaboration between Idiada and Robotiker-Tecnalia of Spain; Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (IKA) of Germany; and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Technology of Sweden.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Cervero believes Stockholm, Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil are two good examples of the TOD principle. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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How do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Ultimate date, the corporate opened retail outlets in Europe, Sweden, and the Netherlands and introduced EU variations of 001 and X. The corporate delivered its 100,000th automobile on April nineteenth, and as of June, their cumulative deliveries in China reached 120,581 EVs, in keeping with CarNewsChina knowledge. and many others.

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