Will Gogoro Change the Taiwan Scooter Market?
Taiwan’s smart electric scooter Gogoro is not selling well compared to its Chinese competitor Niu. Priced at NT$128,000 per unit, Gogoro had a pre-sale deadline of July 24th but it was postponed until...
View ArticleCar Sharing Is Ready to Take Off as New Transportation Model with Over 15M...
The emergence of car sharing services began with the founding of Zipcar in 1999. Since then, car sharing has taken off across the world due to its flexibility when compared with traditional car rental...
View ArticleAndroid Auto’s ‘Desktop Head Unit’ Allows Developers To Emulate In-Car...
By Mir Juned Hussain, The Tech Portal Android Auto, like every emerging new innovation in technology, has had a few stutters here and there. And while Google is convinced that their approach towards...
View ArticleToshiba Launches Brushless Motor Pre-Driver IC for Automotive EPS
Toshiba Corporation has announced the launch of “TB9081FG”, a brushless motor pre-driver IC enhanced to achieve functional safety, for use in electric power steering systems (EPS). Sample shipments...
View ArticleEx-Hyundai Head And TrueCar Founder John Krafcik To Lead Google’s...
By Vishal Srivastava, The Tech Portal Despite minor roadblocks (leading to two accidents as well, which were of course not Google car’s errors), Google’s self-driving car project looks to be in full...
View ArticleRadar Chips in Cars Save Lives: Infineon Innovation Nominated for the...
The high-frequency radar chip team at Infineon Technologies AG has been nominated for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2015 (German Future Award), the German President’s Award for Innovation in Science and...
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Xiaomi Subsidiary Launches Smart Car Chargers for Smartphones
Images of a smartphone car charger by one of Xiaomi’s subsidiaries were recently leaked online. The images included photos of the product, its internal structure and specifications. The release date...
View ArticleAcer Showcases An All-Terrain Electric Car Prototype
By Rahul Punyani, The Tech Portal It is going to be an electric cars future we’ll live in, and companies from literally all walks of technology are busy cashing in early on this still futuristic...
View ArticleChina’s Niu Sells 20,000 Electric Scooters in 15 hours
Chinese start-up tech company Niu launched the second round of sale of its electric scooters online on Oct. 20 and sold out all 20,000 vehicles in 15 hours and 35 minutes. Zhang Yibo, the company’s...
View ArticleGogoro Named as One of Forbes Top 100 IoT Companies
Electric scooter maker Gogoro is the only Taiwanese company to appear on the Forbes Magazine’s new list of the world’s top 100 Internet of Things (IoT) startups, Taiwanese media reported Wednesday....
View ArticleNissan Wants To Make Wireless Charging For Electric Cars Mainstream
By Mir Juned Hussain, The Tech Portal Electric cars give you a lot more comfort than normal ones as you do not need to worry about fuel, pollution etc. But still, most of today’s cars require you to...
View ArticleChina to Drive Demand of Lithium Batteries for xEVs in 2016, Says TrendForce
The global xEVs (x-electric vehicles) market has performed impressively this year mainly because of the Chinese market, which has expanded due to strong government support. EnergyTrend, a division of...
View ArticleDemand for xEVs to Stay Hot in 2016 with Global Sales Forecast at 700K,...
Global sales of xEVs (x-electric vehicles) have soared in 2015 owing to strong market demand in China and Europe. The latest report from global market research firm TrendForce reveals that worldwide...
View ArticleGogoro Rolls Out Battery-Swapping Station at Convenience Store
Taiwan’s electric-scooter maker Gogoro launched a battery-swapping station at a convenience store for the first time Monday. The station is located at the 7-Eleven Rong Hsin store in Taipei’s Zhongshan...
View ArticleSelf-Driving Car Rental Start-Up JustRide Nabs $2 Million In Bridge Round
By Mudit Mohilay, The Tech Portal Close to three months after raising an undisclosed angel round, JustRide, a marketplace for self-driving car enthusiasts has now nabbed close to $2 Million in a bridge...
View ArticleGoogle Has Patented A Tech For Self Driving Cars To Interact With Pedestrians
By Vishal Srivastava, The Tech Portal Post several controversies surrounding the safety of Google’s self driving cars, the search giant has today received a patent which will allow its self-driving...
View ArticleNokia Closes $2.8 Billion ‘Here’ Mapping Service Deal With Car Makers Consortium
By Mudit Mohilay, The Tech Portal Nokia has finally closed its $2.8 Billion Here mapping service deal with the consortium of Car makers who had announced buying the service earlier this year. ‘Here’...
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Baidu’s Driverless Car Completes Road test, Clocking 100 km/h
Chinese Internet giant Baidu announced Thursday that its driverless car completed a road test in Beijing that involved complex road conditions from city to highway. Baidu said the test involved the...
View ArticleStuck On Self-Driving Cars ? Baidu Plans To Mass Produce Self-Driving Buses...
By Zuber Ahmad, The Tech Portal If Google can spend time and effort towards building self-driving cars, then how can China’s version of the search giant (and perhaps a larger one), Baidu be far behind?...
View ArticleElectric Scooter Manufacturer Gogoro to Open First Store Outside Taipei on...
Taiwan-based start-up Gogoro will open its first location outside of Taipei on Dec. 19 in Taoyuan City, six months after launching its flagship product electric scooter, the Gogoro Smartscooter. The...
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