On an October 30 earnings call, Lear CEO Raymond Scott said the company is on track to begin operations in 2027 in Orion Township, where it will manufacture seating for GM with automation expected to reduce costs by 10%-15%.
The new facility will supply seating to GM’s nearby Orion Assembly Plant, which begins produc
On November 6, BlackBerry’s QNX division and Valeo announced a collaboration to integrate QNX OS for Safety into Valeo’s new front-view smart camera platform, which has secured multiple Chinese OEM contracts and is expected to enter production in late 2026.
The production-ready platform combines QNX’s safety-certifie
On November 5, Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (NTCJ) and Qt Group announced that Nuvoton's Gerda, an HMI controller platform delivering premium graphical user interfaces without external memory, is now supported as target hardware for Qt for MCUs. It will support automotive and motorcycle instrument clusters an
On November 5, indie Semiconductor, Inc. announced that it has secured over 40 vision design wins till date in 2026. In its quarterly results, it announced that it has won eMirror and side-view mirror designs at major Indian and Korean OEMs. It has also won the emotion3D in-cabin software program for an Australian-ma
On November 5, Sasken Technologies Ltd. announced a multi-year engineering engagement with the software company of a leading European automotive group. Sasken will provide software development, systems integration, hardware engineering, and validation services to support the development and commercialisation of next-
Michelin, the University of Poitiers, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble INP – UGA, and the CNRS have inaugurated the I-TireLab joint laboratory to develop innovations in tires, tire manufacturing, and flexible composites.
The I-TireLab combines Michelin's expertise in tire simulation and modeling, materials, and in
South Korea's ivis is participating as a joint research organization in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources' project to develop an open-source AI-SDV integrated platform and cloud-based virtual validation environment. The project runs from July 2026 through December 2029. Led by LG Electronics, it aims to b
On October 30, China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd (CCAG) announced that it held a signing ceremony for a strategic cooperation agreement with China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd (China Mobile) in Beijing.
Under the agreement, the two parties will deepen cooperation in areas including digital and intellige
On November 3, Kodiak AI announced it delivered the first two Western Star 49X trucks equipped with the Kodiak Driver to Atlas Energy Solutions in September, building on the companies’ collaboration in the Permian Basin.
The two trucks are the first of 65 Western Star 49X trucks that Kodiak will deliver to fulfill At
On October 29, the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) organized the conference “Connecting India for Safer Roads: Advancing Mobility for All”. The conference actively engaged with Indian authorities and industry to present the 5GAA response to TRAI on V2X spectrum allocation and the comments to the MoRTH V2V notificati
Vector Informatik GmbH (Vector) has introduced the CANoe Emulation Package EV, a new solution for emulating real-world charging infrastructure for EV charging tests.
The solution uses recorded charging session traces to realistically and reproducibly recreate charging station behavior in the lab. It enables engineers
TIER IV announced on November 2 that it will lead efforts to develop and promote Autoware 2.0, the next-generation version of Autoware, open-source software for autonomous driving. The efforts will be carried out in collaboration with the Autoware Foundation (AWF), a nonprofit organization that hosts the Autoware pro
On November 2, Ford announced it is launching the Privacy Promise to make an explicit commitment to customers that their vehicle data is safe and that they never sell data about how a customer drives to data brokers.
Ford’s announcement follows General Motors recently settling a privacy lawsuit for USD 220 million.
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On November 2, HD Hyundai Robotics Co. announced it is partnering with U.S.-based Palantir Technologies Inc. to accelerate the adoption of physical artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial operations and transform the role of field engineers.
The partnership will integrate AI, simulation and engineering expertise t
On November 2, ECARX Limited announced that it had signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Arm to jointly explore and develop next-generation high-performance AI computing platforms for automotive and other industry applications.
Under the MoU, ECARX and Arm will work together on activities spanni
On October 29, GM agreed to pay USD 220 million to settle allegations it had illegally collected and sold drivers' private behavior and location data to brokers, who then sold that information to insurers that used it to set and increase rates.
The settlement resolves claims made by 35 U.S. attorneys general over GM
On October 27, multiple sources reported that Stellantis’ U.S. subsidiary, FCA US LLC, has agreed to a USD 5 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing the company of selling Jeep 4xe plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles with a defect that renders electric-only driving unavailable.
The litigation, brough
On November 2, Infineon Technologies announced that it is working with Qualcomm Technologies to accelerate the development and deployment of central car computers in software-defined vehicles (SDVs).
The companies have signed a technology agreement to have a microcontroller-based subsystem for Qualcomm Technologies’
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