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Car Insurance giants in talks with driverless car developers
Car Insurance giants in talks with driverless car developers The insurance company Aviva is positioning itself in the driverless car arena and is actively preparing for the arrival of autonomous vehicles by looking to partner with manufacturers and seal deals. The automotive industry is expected to dramatically change in the next 15 years and many insurance companies are concerned that...
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Dubai’s Newest Police Cars Are All-Electric BMW’s
Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. Dubai's police force is famous for its fleet of exotic supercars but the emirate has added yet another high-tech, rear-wheel-drive vehicle to its fleet. Added...
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Electric cars will soon charge as you drive
15 New test tracks are being developed with integrated charging technologies built into the roadway allowing electric cars to be charged without even stopping at a charging station. Wireless technology and innovation company, Qualcomm has introduced a new road charging system that can charge a car while it's travelling at 'highway speeds'. The new system is being called Dynamic Electric...
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India not yet ready for electric cars according to Honda Cars India CEO
India not yet ready for electric cars according to Honda Cars India CEO. Honda's President and CEO in India has predicted that the impediment to the introduction of electric cars in India will be infrastructure as well as price. Honda Cars said on Friday 26 May that India is not yet ready to have electric cars in large numbers due...
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Toyota wants flying cars in time for 2020 Olympics
Toyota is backing a new venture involving flying cars and it wants to see it happen by the 2020 Olympics. Toyota has joined the flying car craze and is backing a group which is working on a drone-like vehicle that would fly at an altitude of 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground at speeds up to 100 km/h (62...
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Ford names Jim Hackett as new CEO in push to build self-driving cars
Ford has announced that the head of their driverless car division, Jim Hackett will now be taking over the historic car manufacturer as its new CEO. This comes after the resignation of Mark Fields in a sudden regime change, who is leaving the post after just under three years. It is hoped that Hackett will lead the company to the...
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Goodbye to petrol and diesel. Economist predicts all vehicles will be electric by 2025
All transport will be powered by electricity by 2025 according to the latest report by a leading economist. That means no more petrol or diesel cars, buses or trucks being sold anywhere in the world within just eight years. So are we really seeing the demise of the petroleum industry? If the global market for transport vehicles turns to electrification,...
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Electric vehicles will cost the same as conventional cars by next year!
Electric vehicles will cost the same as conventional cars by next year! The cost of owning an electric vehicle at the moment is quite high with most, if not all way over the 20K and getting closer to the 30k mark. Despite the current prices, experts estimate that the price of an average Electric Vehicle will fall to the same...
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Irish man drives from Ireland to Africa and back in his electric car
Irish man drives from Ireland to Africa and back in his electric car Irish man, Grattan Healy has driven his electric car 9,500km from Galway to Morocco and back. Mr Healy and his partner, Simona, travelled to Ouarzazate in Morocco via Edinburgh in his Tesla Model S. Now the couple is already planning their next trip in their Tesla all...
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Trump's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan And What It May Mean For Autonomous Cars
President Donald Trump has unveiled a massive $1 trillion dollar infrastructure spending package. During a speech to Congress in February, Trump declared: “Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land,” Elaine Chao, who is the Transportation Secretary for the first time put numbers behind the proposal. Chao told the Senate...