With some travel restrictions still in place because of COVID-19, many Montrealers have made the most of warmer weather on two wheels. As a result, for mountain bike enthusiast Jody Arsenault, BEng 12, it’s been a busy season at ArsenoVelo, the mobile bike service and repair shop he opened in […]
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Luxury automakers in the last decade have started to switch out heavy insulation in vehicles for active noise control, or ANC. Much like noise-canceling headphones, ANC utilizes a system of microphones and a digital signal processor to cancel out unwanted noises — like the whirr of tires and the acceleration […]
TVS Motor has infused an additional Rs 30 crore in Ultraviolette Automotive, an electric mobility solution provider. This investment is part of the latest round (Series B) of funding by the company. Ultraviolette recently unveiled India’s first high-performance electric motorcycle – the F77 and is now gearing up to launch […]
Israeli automotive cybersecurity risk assessment startup Cybellium has raised a $12 million Series A round, the company announced last week. The financing round was led by RSBG Ventures GmbH with additional investment from Cybellum existing investors, Blumberg Capital and Target Global. The round brings the company’s total funds raised to […]
Serious dollars are being gambled based upon cybersecurity risks that many people aren’t even aware … [+] exist. getty As previously mentioned in the Top Ten Unspoken Cybersecurity Risks, there have been two decades of conversation about the increased risk of automotive cybersecurity, a bevy of real-world vulnerabilities unearthed, a […]
The automotive industry is being reshaped by a number of forces. Technology advancement and Industry 4.0 has fundamentally changed the automobile from a feat of purely mechanical engineering into a connected machine that has much in common with a consumer electronics device. This has ushered in a desire for new […]
One of HSV’s longest serving managing directors, Tim Jackson, has stepped down as the company pivots to remanufacturing Chevrolet vehicles for GMSV and broadens its engineering business. Holden Special Vehicles and the Walkinshaw Automotive Group have appointed a new boss, Joel Stoddart, as the company prepares to broaden its engineering […]
Ford dropped a brief teaser video for its 2021 GT Heritage Edition Friday afternoon, giving us our first glimpse of a car that will honor the legacy of the #98 Ford GT40 Mk II that won the inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona in 1966 in the hands of Ken Miles […]
Grupo Antolin is partnering with German integrated electronics provider, AED Engineering. AED Engineering will bolster the work of Antolin’s new Electronic Systems Business Unit by partnering in the development of electronics for automobile manufacturers. AED Engineering has more than 140 engineers at its engineering centres in Munich, (Germany) and Murcia, […]
It appears that Rivian Automotive recently welcomed yet another employee with an extensive background in Tesla. As indicated in a recent Bloomberg report, Nick Kalayjian, who spent over a decade at Tesla, will be joining Rivian as the company’s new vice president of engineering and product. Kalayjian will be replacing Mark Vinnels, […]
Mahindra and Mahindra today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Israel-based e-mobility firm REE Automotive for developing and manufacturing electric commercial vehicles for global markets. The partnership will leverage Mahindra’s vehicle design, engineering, sourcing capability and manufacturing assets, and REE’s electric vehicle corner module and platform technology of integrating […]
The Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 is astonishing. It’s the only true successor to the legendary McLaren F1, penned by the same man who created that epoch-defining supercar. And like the F1, the T.50 chases engagement and involvement rather than outright numerical supremacy. We’d expect nothing less of Mr. Murray. © […]
Bloomberg Remote-Work Boom Mints Another Internet Billionaire (Bloomberg) — The coronavirus pandemic, for all its human and economic tragedy, has spurred a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the technology industry, seized most visibly by the sector’s giants such as Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., and productivity players like Zoom Video […]
Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive Inc. has hired a former Tesla Inc. executive to lead its engineering as the Amazon.com Inc.-backed company’s debut electric vehicles near production, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Nick Kalayjian, who spent more than a decade at Tesla, will join Rivian as executive vice […]
The shovels over at InsideEVs hit pay dirt yesterday. As the outlet described it, an internal memo from GM’s EVP of global product development, Doug Parks, moves members of the Corvette engineering team from global products programs to the autonomous and electric vehicles program team overseen by Ken Morris. It’s […]
Dubai, UAE: The INFINITI Q50 Red Sport is like a blaze of red force that leaves a trail of power and style in its path, capturing the inspiration and attention of enthusiasts seeking high-end performance and advanced, world-class safety features. Available at INFINITI of Arabian Automobiles, the flagship company and […]
Girls who are interested in engineering subjects can find potential opportunities to learn daunting because of the lack of like-minded female participants. It is the same for many women in racing, which was the inspiration for the women-only Rebelle Rally. The Rebelle Rally is an 8-day off-road adventure contested annually […]
Collaborations between automotive manufacturers are becoming more common, but IP assets will be at risk if shared knowledge and resources are not managed carefully, says patent attorney Diego Black. With Government plans in place to phase out the production of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles on or before 2035, automotive […]
Mahindra & Mahindra, part of USD 19.4 billion Mahindra Group, and REE Automotive today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore development and manufacturing of electric commercial vehicles for global markets. Such a strategic collaboration will leverage REE’s revolutionary electric vehicle corner module and platform technology of integrating powertrain, […]
With automotive manufacturers such as Nissan planning to sell at least one million electric vehicles (EV) annually by 2022, and Audi set to reach 800,000 by 2025, it is clear that electrification is gathering momentum in the mobility sector. EVs are projected to account for 19{d758473eadf0b692d331aa823300cffd0ef21fd1fd535177f3429dd328b70b5d} of the market by […]
Battista is the world’s first pure electric hypercar and it has a top speed of 270mph. The car has a … [+] 1,300 Watts sound system, designed by Naim Audio of Salisbury. Automobili Pininfarina When it comes to cars, I’m not an avid fan. As long as my car can […]
Hold off on those red-carpet rollouts. AAA is recommending that auto manufacturers do a little more testing on their self-driving vehicles. “AAA automotive researchers found that over the course of 4,000 miles of real-world driving, vehicles equipped with advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) experienced some type of issue,” according to […]
Unlike automotive aerodynamics, motorcycle aerodynamics are highly dependent on the rider and his or her position on the bike. In competition like the FIM Superbike World Championship, aerodynamic drag can make or break a team’s success, so they need to test upgrades to confirm their benefit. BMW Motorrad Motorsport, for […]
Gordon Murray Automotive has unveiled its T.50 supercar in full for the first time, showing the finished exterior and interior design and confirming its ground-breaking technical specifications. The T.50 has been engineered to be the purest, lightest, most driver-centric supercar ever. Improving on his acclaimed McLaren F1 “in every conceivable […]
Recently, the Evaluation Committee of Chinese Association of Refrigeration (CAR) Professional Technical Engineers announced that Sanhua Holding Group Vice President and Chief Scientist Dr. Huang Lin-jie along with the other 5 senior professional technical engineers are awarded with the honor of Chinese Association of Refrigeration Prestigious Engineer. Dr. Huang has […]
The FIA has promised Formula 1 teams that it will clamp down on the use of photography and other techniques used to “reverse engineer” copies of rival cars. The formal commitment is a follow-up to comments made in an interview last weekend by FIA head of single-seater technical matters Nikolas […]