Tag: vehicles

August 5, 2020

As a proxy for AVs, researchers often examine transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft, because in many ways they operate as AVs will. In a 2019 NITC Small Starts project, “How Will Autonomous Vehicles Change Local Government Budgeting […]

April 24, 2020

The advance of diagnostic programs has improved maintenance and uptime for diesel trucks, and it appears the same will be true for electric-powered vehicles. Mack Trucks’ LR Electric refuse truck will be monitored by the company’s GuardDog Connect remote diagnostics […]

October 30, 2019

Italian-American carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Oct. 30 confirmed that it is in talks with French rival PSA Peugeot, its second bid this year to reshape the global auto industry, which is facing huge challenges with the transition to electric […]

September 20, 2019

After several years of fanfare and debate over when and how self-driving commercial vehicles would reach the market, early forms of this technology are beginning to become an option in new trucks. The first trucks equipped with auto­mated steering features […]

December 5, 2018

Waymo, the frontrunner in the self-driving car industry, today announces the moment everyone has been waiting for: It is officially “launching” a robo-taxi service in Chandler, Arizona, wherein riders will use an app to hail the vehicles to take them […]

May 23, 2018

As truck manufacturers begin to add electric-powered models to their product lineups, they are targeting city and regional routes as early applications for these vehicles. Daimler Trucks expects that urban and local distribution will serve as the first use-case for […]

March 21, 2018

Technology developed at the University of Waterloo reliably and affordably increases the efficiency of internal combustion engines by more than 10 per cent. The product of a decade of research, this patented system for opening and closing valves could significantly […]

December 28, 2017

A WORLD DOMINATED by self-driving cars is no longer just possible, it’s inevitable. And the proof is everywhere. In Arizona, where Waymo (formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project) is testing minivans sans humans inside. In Boston, where Lyft and […]

December 12, 2017

Cars are killing us, and it is time to limit the damage to drivers and to people around them, just like we did with smoking. For the last few years, my particular position on cars has grown more extreme, from […]

November 7, 2017

EACH TIME PORSCHE sets out to design a new generation of its popular Cayenne SUV, it takes on the same challenge: making a car that feels more like a Porsche than a popular SUV. That is, ditching the rolling Barcalounger […]

May 24, 2017

The rate at which new technologies get accepted into the mainstream never fails to confuse people. For the longest time, cell phones appeared to be the exclusive domain of yuppies, bankers and drug dealers. And then, suddenly, my mum had […]

April 12, 2017

Walk the floor of any car show and you’ll find the future neatly organized according to buzzwords. Autonomous. Electric. Connected. Shared. The folks at Dodge, though, use fancy another buzzword. More. As in more power. More torque. And more wheelies. Yeah. More wheelies. Dodge, […]

February 9, 2017

BUGATTI DOES NOT build cars for going places. Going somewhere, rather, is an excuse to drive a Bugatti. “We are not talking about transportation,” Bugatti boss Wolfgang Durheimer told me last year, when he unveiled the Chiron, a more extreme successor to […]

August 12, 2016

Side mirrors no longer required on cars in Japan. Is this a good idea? According to Cleantechnica, Japanese authorities have made it legal for car manufacturers to eliminate side mirrors and replace them with cameras and video feeds. James Ayre […]