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Bosch has opened an engineering centre in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

Renault says it is is accelerating and creating MAI (Mobility as an Industry), an operating subsidiary for new mobility services.

Autoneum has appointed Matthias Holzammer as new CEO.

Loadsmart has launched a Smart Match tool to help carriers pair trucks with freight.

Kodiak Robotics has appointed Jamie Hoffacker from Lyft to lead its hardware division.

Faurecia Clean Mobility develops and produces novel solutions to drive mobility and industry toward zero emissions. Its R&D focus includes hydrogen fuel cell and battery packs. To learn more about this exhausting business, we spoke to Andrew Pontius, Vice President, Light-Vehicle Product Lines, North America, Faurecia Clean Mobility.

BSI, the business improvement company and the UK national standard body, is inviting comments on PAS 1881 Assuring safety for automated vehicle trials and testing, a new industry specification for driverless pods, cars and trucks. The specification is designed to ensure automated vehicle trials and on-road tests meet with industry good practice on safety and risk management.

The conventional view is that technology transfers from the aerospace industry to the automotive sector but James McGeachie, director of engineering at Prodrive Advanced Technology has seen an upsurge in opportunities for transfer in the opposite direction. We spoke to him about some of his recent experiences.

In line with the sluggish recovery of the Brazilian economy - this year's GDP is expected to grow 1% maximum, according to late forecasts - the Brazilian auto industry will also achieve poorer results than expected for the year.

News 8 Oct, 2019

New tech, tweaked styling and seats kinder to your spine all introduced to the revised Ford S-Max and Galaxy ranges

News 8 Oct, 2019

The new BMW M8 Gran Coupe range-topping four-door coupe arrives with a 616bhp twin-turbo V8

Nissan has appointed current SVP and Dongfeng president, Makoto Uchida as representative executive officer and CEO of the Japanese automaker.

Select Fusion Red Volvo S60 T8 Twin Engine AWD R-Design Plus saloon at UK 'Recharge' event. Vaguely recall last drive of T8 XC90 several years ago (was it really as far back as August 2014 the wraps came off what was the first of a whole swathe of new Volvos free of Ford influence?) Point S60 at straight road. Floor accelerator. Wa-hey!!!!! Return to base and study spec sheet. 4.4 seconds 0-60mph acceleration. You are kidding me? No, they're not.

Power steering specialist China Automotive Systems (CAAS) says it has successfully passed a supplier evaluation by European heavy commercial specialist IVECO.

Russia sales of new passenger cars and LCVs in Russia fell 0.2% in September to reach 157,129 vehicles, according to data from the Association of European Businesses Automotive Manufacturers Committee (AEB AMC).

New research from the American Automobile Association (AAA) showed automatic emergency braking systems with pedestrian detection perform inconsistently, and proved to be completely ineffective at night.

DeepRoute, a self-driving vehicle tech start-up, has announced it has raised US$50m in its pre-Series A funding round 'to expand the global presence of the company's autonomous driving solutions'. The financing round was led by Fosun RZ Capital, a Beijing-based venture capital arm of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International.

VW-Group luxury brand Bentley Motors has announced carbon neutral certification for its factory headquarters in Crewe, UK.