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News 22 Feb, 2019

BMW and Daimler to work together on developing their car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport offerings

It's been another week with plenty going on in the auto biz related to the big megatrends, neatly summed up by the CASE acronym (connected, autonomous, shared and electric). Re-arrange that to ACES if you prefer.

News 25 Feb, 2019

All-electric Peugeot e-208 supermini set to upstage the Renault Zoe with 211-mile range and 134bhp electric powertrain

News 25 Feb, 2019

The new Peugeot 208 has arrived to take on the Ford Fiesta with a new platform, engines and tech, plus an all-electric option

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI), is partnering Startup Autobahn in Stuttgart.

Thailand's new vehicle market has started 2019 on the front foot, with sales rising by 17.3% in January to 78,061 units from 66,545 units in the same month last year, according to data compiled by the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

News 22 Feb, 2019

Updated Volvo XC90 SUV will gain an energy recovery system and mild cosmetic updates when deliveries begin in May

Magna has revealed fourth-quarter net income up22% to US$456m, while sales rose 5% to USUS$10.1bn.

BMW Group and Daimler have provided more detail on their planned urban mobility services joint ventures. The two companies say they are investing more than EUR1bn in total to 'develop and more closely intermesh their offerings for car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport'.

Scania says it sees the agreement between the European Parliament and the EU council on CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles as a tool to reach the Paris climate objectives

Opinion 24 Feb, 2019

Jaguar's advertising agency should be making more of a song and dance about how world-class their cars are, says Mike Rutherford

Grupo Antolin has entered into a strategic partnership with HiRain Technologies, a leading automotive Chinese electronics provider, to jointly provide carmakers with lighting solutions for the interior and exterior of the vehicle technology and a high degree of electronics with an initial focus on local OEMs.

Drivers of fully automated vehicles should not be held responsible for accidents that occur while the technology is operational, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said.

Toyota's Australian vehicle import company has been the victim of an attempted cyber attack.

MediaTek, a global semiconductor company enabling 1.5bn connected devices a year and Autotalks, a V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communication solutions company, are cooperating on integrating V2X and telematics.

Tesla has started delivering Model 3 cars in China.