The corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch group, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, has announced that it has increased its financial stake in the Israel-based startup Allegro.AI, a firm focused on AI deep learning in relation and as applied to computer vision tech.
Is it a miracle? Shortly after Germany started talking about bans on diesel cars, Bosch says it has new technology that will slash emissions.
The Germany-based utility EnBW and the auto parts supplier Bosch have now brought online a new battery-based energy storage project at the Heilbronn coal-fired power plant.
Tesla has issued a new voluntary recall for around 123,000 Model S sedans — those built before April 2016 — due to complaints from some owners about corrosion of power-steering bolts when exposed regularly to calcium or magnesium road salts (used in some cold climates to melt snow and ice on roadways). We noted this earlier today, but we didn’t highlight that these bolts don’t come from any old supplier — they come from Bosch.
The public discussion about plug-in vehicle charging often focuses on the installation, quantity, distribution and speed of public chargers, but the data reveal that the vast majority of charging happens at home. The challenges with residential charging are best split two ways – renting vs owning and single-family homes vs multi-family housing.
Bosch is pretty much everywhere when it comes to mobility, and that’s particularly true with the electric vehicle (EV) sector. But one thing the global giant has shied away from so far is manufacturing its own batteries. It just announced it won’t pursue that route any longer.
The largest auto parts supplier in the world, Bosch, has decided that it won’t be manufacturing its own electric vehicle batteries, despite the booming of the sector — as the billions of euros of investment that would be required would pose too much of a risk to the company.
Following large investments from a number of other major auto industry firms, Bosch and Continental have now both acquired large stakes in the digital mapping firm HERE, according to recent reports.
In the electric vehicle (EV) world, 2018 is shaping up to be the year of Chinese electric vehicles and global startups. China is doing everything it can to establish its international brand in this arena — perhaps the hottest new consumer market of the 21st century. It makes us wonder how the West will react? Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, GM, Daimler, and others have strong statements on electric vehicles and autonomous ones at that, but how prepared are each of them to genuinely compete?
The Bosch subsidiary Buderus Guss has now introduced to market a new brake disc known as the iDisc that reportedly generates up to 90% less brake dust than conventional brake discs do — while also lasting up to twice as long as conventional brake discs and being safer and/or more effective in some regards.
