Electric Cars

Renault: Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Matches Professional Test Drivers

Check out an important next step in using autonomous driving to improve vehicle safety. This swift test run for Groupe Renault’s autonomous control system shows Renault’s autonomous control adeptly handling challenging driving scenarios. Renault reports that, as an industry first, its system can perform road obstacle avoidance as well as professional test drivers. Renault continues that the drivers served as the inspiration and the benchmark for this achievement at Renault Open Innovation Lab – Silicon Valley.

DiDi’s Huge Role In The Quickly Developing Chinese (& Global) Electric Car Ecosystem

Didi Chuxing (China’s Uber-like ride-hailing service) has been in the news recently. It announced 1) plans to create its own electric car charging network, 2) a partnership with NEVS for one million electric self-driving cars, 3) that it’s a partner in Changan Automobile Group’s $15 billion Shangri La electric vehicle transition plan, and 4) that it has the world’s largest EV ridesharing fleet.

E-Fuso Vision One Wants To Pull The Heavy Weight

The heavy-haul and long-distance electric truck industry has been relatively quiet, working away with today’s current battery technology but primarily behind the scenes. But things kicked off much more in public when Tesla started talking about its electric truck and stories started to pop up.

Fuso, now part of Daimler, has been making the news with an electric vehicle (EV) truck ready to lift the heavy load, the E-Fuso Vision One, right on the heels of its e-Canter, which you can read about here from fellow writer Steve Hanley.