May 7th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Taipei, Taiwan-based XING Mobility is leveling up its modular battery system with the introduction of an Immersion Cooled Modular Battery Pack System at The 2019 Battery Show in Stuttgart, Germany. The company will roll the new cooling system out in parallel to a full complement of advanced, integrated components and fully compatible powertrain solutions
May 29th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Just weeks after Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled that cities can ban diesel cars, the city of Hamburg has announced a plan to launch a fully autonomous electric shuttle service. Project HEAT (Hamburg Electric Autonomous Transportation) will provide service starting in spring of 2019 in a trial operation that was established to determine the viability of the solution for the city
September 10th, 2017 | by Kyle Field
All signs point to a changing of the winds in Germany with regards to plug-in vehicles. Emissions scandal after emissions scandal have raked the confidence of the public in the German auto industry and many have started to take action. Sales number from August show that nearly 2% (1.88% to be exact) of new vehicle sales in Germany were plug-in vehicles, with fully electric vehicles up +137%. That's a higher percentage share of new vehicle sales than in the United States
July 21st, 2017 | by James Ayre
The search warrant used by prosecutors in Stuttgart, Germany, two months ago when they searched Daimler facilities in the country (following allegations of false advertising and possible exhaust gas treatment systems fraud in some diesel cars) alleged that the company sold over a million cars in Europe and the US with excessive emissions
March 14th, 2017 | by James Ayre
As speculated in the comments section of our article on Stuttgart's decision to begin selectively banning diesel cars from the city during times of high air pollution, diesel car sales in the region appear to have fallen notably. Presumably, public discussion on the possibility of future bans has put a damper on diesel cars
February 23rd, 2017 | by James Ayre
The city of Stuttgart in Germany will be home to occasional selective bans of diesel cars during periods of high pollution beginning in 2018, going by a recent announcement from state officials in Baden-Württemberg
January 3rd, 2017 | by James Ayre
The city of Stuttgart in Germany — the city's government bureau of transportation, that is — has just given authorization to Mercedes-Benz to begin testing its self-driving vehicle technology on public roads there
April 13th, 2016 | by Kyle Field
We are seeing the first fruits of autonomous driving technology in the personal vehicle market, but other segments of the [&hellip
May 18th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
The industrial education specialists Festo Didactic gave us a guided tour through the world of cyber physical systems that went to a very interesting place
October 1st, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
Last night, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) demonstrated the world’s first manned airplane that can fly exclusively with the use [&hellip
