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Month: January 2021

NIO Partners With NVIDIA To Develop A New Generation Of Automated Driving Electric Vehicles

NIO, a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market, and NVIDIA announced today that the automaker has selected the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its new generation of electric vehicles, which will offer advanced automated driving capabilities. NIO…

GM Unveils New Logo To Emphasize Its Pivot To Electric Vehicles

General Motors debuted a new logo meant to convey the automaker’s renewed commitment to the production and sale of electric vehicles. The company is also launching a new marketing campaign to underscore that commitment, as it seeks to compete with…

Mercedes’ Flagship EV Will Have A Giant, 56-Inch Screen Spanning The Entire width Of The Car

Mercedes-Benz appears to be going all-in with the screens. Not only can the brand’s new S-Class flagship be fitted with as many as five screens, but the German automaker also wants to outfit its upcoming flagship EQS all-electric car with…

Hyundai Says In Early Talks With Apple After Electric Vehicle Tie-Up Report

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said it was in early talks with Apple, after local media reported the firms were discussing an electric car and battery tie-up, sending Hyundai shares surging 25%. The report comes weeks after it was reported…

City Link Launches Electric Cargo Vehicles In Bangalore

City Link Portal Pvt. Ltd., (City Link) a leading tech enabled within city logistics start-up, has taken delivery of its first set of Electric Cargo Vehicles (EV) from Mahindra and Mahindra. City Link understands, that it is the first company…

Norway’s EV Sales Rise To Record 54% Market Share

Electric-car sales in Norway overtook those of vehicles powered by combustion and hybrid engines last year. Full-electric cars made up 54 percent of all new cars sold in the Nordic country in 2020, up from 42 percent in 2019 and…

Warren Buffett-Backed Chinese Electric Car Company Outsells Its Start-Up Rivals

Chinese automaker BYD is selling far more luxury electric sedans a month than the leading start-ups in the country, even though sales of electric passenger cars fell 11% last year. BYD, backed by American billionaire Warren Buffett, disclosed that sales…

Xpeng Partners With Livox For Lidar In 2021 Vehicles

The Guangzhou-based automaker will be the first to deploy lidar tech in a production electric vehicle. Xpeng Motors has selected Livox, a leading manufacturer of lidar equipment, to deploy its automotive-grade lidar technology in Xpeng’s 2021 production vehicles. We recently…

PURE EV Develops System To Repair Lithium-Ion Batteries Of Electric Vehicles

IIT Hyderabad-incubated start-up, PURE EV, has developed Artificial Intelligence-driven hardware that automates identification and repair of defects in Lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles. This next-generation technology completely does away with the requirement for customers to visit service centres to address…

Global Software Simulation Provider Ansys Join Hands With Indian Startup Skill Lync To Provide EV Online Courses To Indian Students

In a bid to provide in-depth learning on Electric Vehicles to undergraduate engineering students in India, Chennai headquartered global startup Skill-Lync partners with global leader in design & simulation software provider Ansys to launch ‘basic courses in Electric Vehicle (EV)…