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...Volvo will integrate casting into its third generation of electric vehicles later this decade....
...EVs from Toyota, BMW, Volvo and Tesla cost more than 1mn baht ($29,000) in Thailand — as much as an apartment in some parts of the country....
...Geely, which holds a 9.7 per cent stake in Daimler and owns Volvo Cars, has form in the premium segment. China accounts for about a fifth of global luxury demand....
...Waymo last year struck deals to build driverless ride-hailing vehicles with Volvo, cargo vans with Fiat Chrysler and semi-trucks with Daimler, to name a few....
...Worldwide, carmakers are already working closely with tech companies, with Google sibling Waymo working with Jaguar, Volvo, Renault and Nissan....
...Hota also supplies automotive transmission parts to Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and McLaren....
...While Daimler plans to deploy its own autonomous cars on Uber’s ride-hailing network, and Volvo sold vehicles to Uber outright, the Toyota deal sees the world’s largest carmaker licensing Uber’s technology...
...Elsewhere, Volvo has stated an ambition to be the “supplier of choice” for the ride-sharing industry, while also working on its own self-driving systems alongside Autoliv....
...Toyota has also paused its pilot project, but others in the industry, including Zoox and Drive.ai, have continued to test their self-driving cars on public roads this week....
...Partners in the Didi Auto Alliance include Chinese carmakers such as Geely, BYD and SAIC, as well as international brands such as Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and Toyota and Volkswagen’s China units....
...Uber has struck deals with carmakers Volvo and Toyota, and AI chipmaker Nvidia. Last month, its Chinese rival Didi Chuxing demonstrated a self-driving car for the first time....
...The group last year spent $1bn on AI start-up Argo to compete with Waymo and Uber as well as automotive rivals such as General Motors and Toyota in developing self-driving vehicles....
...In the wake of the Uber crash, chipmaker Nvidia became the latest company to suspend its testing after Toyota and nuTonomy last week....
...Google is also using its existing network of Android devices to push out its Assistant, including to millions of cars from the likes of Ford, GM, Volkswagen and Volvo....
...On Sunday evening, a Volvo SUV with an array of sensors and cameras drove into 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she crossed a road in Tempe, Arizona....
...Volvo says all its new models will be electric or hybrid from 2019. Toyota plans to have an electrified or hybrid version of all its models by 2025....
...GAC sold 2m units last year, over half of which were Honda- or Toyota-branded cars assembled under separate 50-50 joint ventures with the two Japanese carmakers....
...All of the collaborations are non-exclusive, and Lyft’s other partners include Jaguar Land Rover and even Alphabet’s Waymo business, while Uber counts both Toyota and Volvo as either partners or investors...
...Volvo went a step further this week, announcing the end of the purely petrol engine in its cars from 2019....
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...Uber’s previous tie-ups include a deal with Toyota, which invested in the company, and with Volvo, with which it is collaborating to test its partially autonomous SUVs. Image via Bloomberg...
...Daimler owns a smaller Uber competitor in Europe, MyTaxi; Uber’s previous tie-ups include a deal with Toyota, which invested in the company, and with Volvo, with which it is collaborating to test its partially...
...Toyota and Tata Capital, the financial services arm of India’s Tata Group, have invested in Uber, while GM invested $500m in Lyft this year....
...Toyota’s US engineers previously said the problem of handing back control to a human was “fundamentally unsolvable”....
...Nissan is not alone in seeking some of these sales: Volvo, Jaguar and Lexus, the premium brand owned by Toyota, are already vying for the attention of the same premium marque drivers....
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