attery, offering up to 622 km of range (WLTP) and 150 kW DC fast charging, adding up to 420 km in just 30 minutes. The production of the new LEAF represents a GBP 450 million investment by Nissan across its operations and supply chain in UK. Nissan has modernized the plant with technologies such as big data, virtual reality, and digital plant mapping, added new press dies and high-tech robots including automated laser welding, installed a fully a...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/16

libration tools in the Microsoft Marketplace at CES 2026. This milestone marks the first time ETAS products will be available on Microsoft Azure, accelerating software-defined vehicle development via cloud technology. The initial product suite available on Azure includes the ETAS Calibration Suite, Data Operator, EATB (ETAS Analytics Toolbox), and ETAS ASCMO (Advanced Simulation and Calibration Model). Migrating these tools to the cloud enables a...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/12

nce. “There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI... I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week. You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The move would deliver a win for Big Tech companies that have cultivated close relationships with the White House. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, and ventu...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/10

Dongfeng Honda enters strategic partnership with Tencent Intelligent Mobility Tencent Intelligent Mobility, a division of Tencent Group, announced that it signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (Dongfeng Honda). The two companies will cooperate on digital marketing, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications to promote the digital transformation of the automotive industry.In the field of mar...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/17

EU to award over EUR 200 million to automotive digitization projects On October 9, the European Commission announced that it has published calls for projects to award EU funds worth a total of just over EUR 204 million to propel the deployment and take up of innovative digital technologies across Europe. Under the Digital Europe Programme, 9 project calls focus on advancing AI and big data, completing the Network of European Digital Innovation Hu...

News  Updated at: 2025/10/10

vy trucks, 30% levy on upholstered furniture and 50% import fee on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities that will begin October 1. “In order to protect our Great Heavy Truck Manufacturers from unfair outside competition, I will be imposing, as of October 1st, 2025, a 25% Tariff on all ‘Heavy (Big!) Trucks’ made in other parts of the World,” Trump wrote. Neither the White House nor Commerce Department has released details of the plans or...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/27

ld of cloud to optimize AI-enabled algorithms to help Mercedes-Benz develop, iterate, and deploy advanced intelligent driver assistance technology more efficiently. -          R&D efficiency enhancement: Volcano Engine, a ByteDance business unit, will assist Mercedes-Benz in establishing a big data platform integrating large AI models and data analysis for full enhancement of R&D efficiency. Going forward, Mercedes-Benz’s digital techn...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/25

lutions with SGMW in-house developed assisted driving, cockpit, powertrain, and battery technologies to enhance the core competitiveness of SGMW products. With its Intelligent Island Manufacturing System (I²MS) at the core, SGMW will leverage Huawei’s high-reliability production network, AI, and big data technologies to promote the upgrading of the system. From an SGMW press release...

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BMW develops Gen 6 battery production with AI-driven processes On August 18, BMW announced that it has taken a big step forward with its Gen6 eDrive high-voltage batteries. They use new cylindrical cells that improve energy density, charging speed, and range. To produce these batteries, BMW developed an entirely new process supported by advanced IT and data analytics. The data science and IT teams manage Industrial IoT, software architectures, an...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/19

frequently experienced short-haul transportation scenarios such as ports, mining areas, and steel mills, the T9 delivers a dead weight of only 8.9t, a combined power consumption as low as 1.1kWh/km, and an ultra-low cockpit drag coefficient of 0.4Cd. An in-house developed vehicle-cloud dual-engine big data platform allows for features such as real-time task scheduling, recharging scheduling, and operation monitoring. Going forward, the T9 will c...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/13

iNavi, Korea and TomTom, Netherlands partner on mobility and mapping solutions On August 7, iNavi Systems, the leading map platform provider for mobility and autonomous driving, signed a global Solution Provider Agreement with TomTom. iNavi Systems will integrate TomTom’s global mapping and traffic data, leveraging its core location-based technologies.  iNavi is building and enhancing its solutions on top of the TomTom stack, utilizing advance...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/08

Global EV battery installation Jan- Jun up 37.3% , top CATL with 37.9% share On August 4, SNE Research announced monthly power battery data for global electric vehicles (BEV, PHEV, HEV) sold in June 2025.     For January to June, the global battery installation increased 37.3% to 504.4 GWh. By national origin among top 10 suppliers, Chinese manufacturers accounted for 68.9% of sales, followed by Korean manufacturers at 16.5% and Japanese manufa...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/04

arging technology developed and validated by the two companies in Chongqing has achieved a breakthrough of “10kWh of electricity on a 1-minute charge”. Going forward, they will continuously make joint innovations in key areas such as fast charging, automatic charging, V2G (Vehicle to Grid), and big data applications. From a Shacman press release...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/28

The proceeds will be used for R&D, ecosystem establishment, and digitalization, and to supplement the funds required for production and operations. In the coming two years, Cavan Auto will introduce two new platforms to promote the evolution of New Energy commercial vehicles into mobile carriers of big data. From a Foton Motor press release...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/02

The system achieves SPS (Set Parts System)-based distribution of vehicle body components for the first time, transporting components with vehicles to enable centralized material distribution and an 80% shorter average transportation distance. -          In-depth integration between AI and big data: Online AI fully automatically inspects the appearance of 100% of welding points, delivering a defect detection rate of over 98% and shorteni...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/23

SOLLERS, Russia implements IoT technologies to boost production efficiency at Alabuga engine plant On June 17, SOLLERS announced that its diesel engine plant in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone has adopted IoT and Big Data technologies for online production control based on the domestic digital platform WINNUM. The initiative was carried out in collaboration with SOLLERS' technology partner, PROF-IT GROUP. The WINNUM system monitors key machine ...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/18

-creation. The two companies will conduct in-depth cooperation in key areas such as intelligent assisted driving, intelligent cockpits, intelligent vehicle control, intelligent connectivity, and electric components. Huawei will leverage its leading technologies in areas such as cloud computing, AI, big data, and the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) to help DFMC achieve the full digitalization and intelligentization of the chain from R&D to ma...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/28

orandum of Understanding (MoU) to introduce ADaPTIV.This groundbreaking initiative is powered by PETRONAS’ ADaPT technology, originally designed for the energy sector and now adapted to serve the automotive industry.ADaPTIV leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Big Data Analytics to deliver intelligent, real-time predictive vehicle maintenance. This advancement aims to enhance road safety, lower operational c...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/14

ices Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (Tencent Cloud), a Tencent Group subsidiary, signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the R&D of Level 4 autonomous driving and the application of Robotaxi services with Pony.ai. Through technology cooperation in areas such as cloud services, map data, information security, and intelligent cockpit ecosystems, the two companies will expand the product forms and business scenarios of Robotaxis on...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/30

gy. The joint venture specializes in highly advanced automated driving systems for the Chinese market. Over the past 18 months, more than 500 software experts across the company's Beijing and Shanghai locations have driven the development of the new ADAS technology forward. Compared to conventional data platforms without an AI Big-Data technology, GAIA, CARIZON's AI-driven data platform for intelligent data collection and analysis, accelerates da...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/18