Month: August 2020

Automotive Industry

Denso establishes automated driving R&D center in Pittsburgh

Denso Corp. said Wednesday it founded an R&D heart in Pittsburgh to acquire automated driving technology. The heart has been in operation since July, the enterprise said.

“At the Pittsburgh Innovation Lab, the enterprise will perform analysis to accomplish Level-four automated driving and acquire the elemental technologies, like AI, to make it attainable,” the Toyota-affiliated automobile supplier said, incorporating that the heart options to lover with community universities and providers for its analysis.

A Denso spokesperson said the heart has 10 workers and handles 10,064 sq. toes.

Denso has three other North American R&D centers, in Montreal, Seattle and Silicon

Car Reports

Pandemic complicates cities’ transportation planning

18 mins ago Kathleen E. Hawkes

Even prior to the pandemic struck, general public transit agencies in important U.S. metropolitan areas experienced from declining ridership. In many circumstances, COVID-19 has exacerbated people losses.

How to stem them in the short phrase and calibrate general public transit’s function as engineering developments are two concerns at the forefront for transportation planners as they get ready for a wave of new mobility traits.

“I was speaking to the CEO of the Ann Arbor transportation authority yesterday, and I questioned him, ‘How’s ridership?’ ” explained Paul Ajegba, director of the Michigan Division of Transportation, throughout a Zoom presentation Wednesday at

Classifieds Cars

The timetable for EV launches could get dicey

22 mins ago Kathleen E. Hawkes

The coronavirus pandemic will gradual the rollout of some electrified car applications as suppliers offer with liquidity difficulties, automakers postpone launches and consumer keep off on new-automobile buys, mentioned Michael Robinet, executive director of automotive advisory providers at IHS Markit, in a Zoom presentation Wednesday for the duration of the Middle for Automotive Investigation Management Briefing Seminars.

“The future four to six quarters will be critical,” Robinet mentioned, incorporating that another lockdown could toss the business off course to the stage in which it could be three to four years before income return to 2018 amounts.

But automakers and suppliers

Car and Auto News

PSA makes strides with mobility services

44 mins ago Kathleen E. Hawkes

PSA Group’s fledgling Free2Move small-phrase rental support in Washington, D.C., is “extremely close” to remaining a sustainable company, PSA North The us CEO Larry Dominique said Wednesday.

But receiving this much has taken substantial time and investment decision, he acknowledged.

“It really is only just after 24 months of focused, one-town awareness to price, depreciation and how ideal to satisfy motor vehicle-sharing buyers,” Dominique said in a Zoom presentation in the course of the Car Management Briefing Seminars.

The French automaker, which owns storied brand names Peugeot and Citroen, is reentering the U.S. on a nontraditional route. PSA 1st set

Auto Classifieds

GM’s Betsy Ancker-Johnson, acclaimed scientist, leaves behind legacy of firsts

1 hour ago Kathleen E. Hawkes

Forty-a single yrs in the past, acclaimed scientist Betsy Ancker-Johnson attended her initially assembly in the Standard Motors boardroom as the Detroit automaker’s vice president for environmental activities.

It was 1979, and “the gentlemen were all walking on eggshells,” she recalled two many years later on in an interview with Automotive News.

It was a general public plan preparing assembly, and there was an founded buy — mysterious to her at the time — to how to enter the home.

“The chairman and president arrived in and sat down, then the other individuals followed,” she stated. “But quite a

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