:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1759400/1759401/original.jpg "A total of eleven LNG trucks for local freight transport are operational at the ZF site in Saarbrücken. By the end of the year, ZF expects to increase the number of LNG trucks to 40.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1759100/1759157/original.jpg "When new batteries are fitted to the buses, the old ones still have considerable capacity left to offer.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1757200/1757235/original.jpg "General Motors will be the first automaker to use an almost completely wireless battery management.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1754600/1754672/original.jpg "For the first time, Daimler Trucks presents a preview of its purely battery-powered long-haul truck: the Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul. Starting from the middle of the decade, it is designed to cover regular journeys on plannable routes in an energy-efficient manner. Its range on one battery charge will be approximately 500 kilometers.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1759300/1759358/original.jpg "By many accounts, EVs represent the future of mobility.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1760500/1760568/original.jpg "InnoTrans is the world’s leading trade fair for transport technology and takes place every two years in Berlin.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1761000/1761019/original.jpg "A focused management has led to an optimization of working capital and a further reduction of fixed costs and capital expenditure.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1758900/1758940/original.jpg "Smart manufacturer Foxconn unveils the MIH e-platform.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1760000/1760095/original.jpg "Users will now see speedometer and other core drive information on both the HUD and the instrument cluster.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1759900/1759927/original.jpg "The flying car from the film Blade Runner")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1758100/1758114/original.jpg "Most minibus AVs carry fewer than 25 passengers.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1757300/1757343/original.jpg "dSPACE and Velodyne LiDAR have entered into a partnership to accelerate future developments of LiDAR technologies for autonomous driving.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1754500/1754568/original.jpg "As more sensors and electric motors are incorporated into cars, systems become exposed to risk of malicious hacks.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1745600/1745661/original.jpg "The 60,000-square-foot facility houses a hot soak chamber, a cold soak chamber, and two chassis dyne-equipped environmental chambers.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1740000/1740072/original.jpg "Smart traffic systems acquire data from the road users and communicate with a central control system to change lights and signal lengths as needed.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1738300/1738301/original.jpg "Apple’s latest iOS will let the iPhone act as a digital car key.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1735400/1735484/original.jpg "Today, Japanese automaker production comprises one-third of all cars and trucks built in the United States.")
Study
The significant role of Japanese automakers in U.S. economy
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1735400/1735422/original.jpg "The China 6 standard takes best practices from both American and Europen regulations and adds in those tailored specifically to the unique driving conditions of China.")
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
How the recent “China 6” emissions regulations will create new opportunities for automotive parts suppliers
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1734200/1734261/original.jpg "Mining vehicles need to be able to operate in harsh environments and extremes of hot and cold temperatures. This is one of many conditions which are fulfilled by autonomous technologies.")
SPECIALTY AVS
Who are mining vehicle market leaders?
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1732600/1732659/original.jpg "\"By the end of 2022, a unique hub and think tank for future-oriented software and digitalization services will have been created here in Ingolstadt.\"")
Digital Services
Fully integrated development centre and software/digitalization hub in Ingolstadt
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1732000/1732005/original.jpg "While some of the autonomous vehicles (AVs) targeting the delivery market look like normal sedan and SUV automobiles or vans, others are futuristic-looking driverless “pods”.")
Specialty AVs
Who are delivery vehicle market leaders?
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1729500/1729593/original.jpg "Autonomous construction vehicles could possibly replace an entire site work crew.")
Specialty AVs
These are the top 10 leaders in construction vehicles
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1728900/1728900/original.jpg "Collaboration combines NXP’s automotive quality and functional safety with TSMC’s industry-leading 5nm technology to further drive the transformation of automobiles into powerful computing systems for the road.")
Vehicle Computing
TSMC 5nm process for high performance automotive platform
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1727500/1727516/original.jpg "\"By 2023, we aim to have 25 electrified models on the roads – more than half of them fully-electric.”")
ELECTROMOBILITY
Car manufacturer concludes long-term supply contract for battery cells
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1725900/1725977/original.jpg "A slowly growing field of companies is attempting to tackle the market for autonomous trucks")
OVERVIEW
Technology Comparison of Autonomous Trucks
Galleries
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1712900/1712995/original.jpg "The new MEMS sensor from Bosch enables uninterrupted navigation and realistic display of vehicle movements.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1659100/1659138/original.jpg "The \"360 Reality Audio\" offers passengers a new kind of sound experience via loudspeakers installed in each seat.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1654200/1654235/original.jpg "The autonomous transport robots are camera-based monitored and can be positioned with an accuracy of less than half a millimetre. At Volkswagen's Smart Production Lab in Wolfsburg, the software and algorithms behind the control system are developed.")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1650300/1650347/original.jpg "With the \"Vision F-Cell\", Daimler Trucks & Buses is consistently strengthening its activities in the hydrogen sector..")
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1722100/1722169/original.jpg "The Volkswagen Group and QuantumScape have also been collaborating in a joint venture to enable industrial-level production of solid-state batteries since 2018.")
Battery technology
Volkswagen increases stake in QuantumScape
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1721700/1721743/original.jpg "After serva transport systems got into financial difficulties due to the corona pandemic, Porsche decided to take over the business operations of the start-up.")
Driverless transport systems
Porsche joins serva transport systems
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1716200/1716270/original.jpg "IHS Markit estimates that due to the pandemic, 2020 global auto sales are expected to decline by at least 22%, leaving about 70 million vehicles sold instead of almost 90 million.")
Corona Pandemic
The effects of the coronavirus on the automotive industry
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1715400/1715425/original.jpg "IZB 2020 postponed to 5th - 7th October 2021.")
Trade Fair
IZB 2020 postponed - New 2021 date confirmed
:quality(80)/images.vogel.de/vogelonline/bdb/1714600/1714632/original.jpg "Rand analysts warned that AV platform developers weren’t performing enough other types of testing prior to putting their AVs on the road.")