Belron is looking for start-ups to join its acceleration programme. Drive, the 10-week global accelerator, which follows a pilot run in 2016, will continue to seek disruptive start-ups who can effectively improve the company’s operations, and want to trial their products with a global organisation. Run with innovation partner L Marks, the accelerator is looking [...]

Volvo Cars is to set up a new shared mobility business unit as part of a broad expansion of its car sharing and mobility services strategy. The new business unit will be based around Sunfleet, one of the world’s first car sharing companies that has been operated by Volvo since 1998. Based in Sweden, Sunfleet [...]

Honda has unveiled its Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem concept at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The concept connects the power of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data to ‘transform the mobility experience of the future and improve customers’ quality of life’. Featuring a number of prototype and concept technology demonstrations at CES, the Honda concept envisions [...]

According to a report on the BBC thousands of Volkswagen owners in the UK are seeking compensation from the carmaker following its emissions scandal. Lawyers have reportedly claimed 10,000 owners had already expressed an interest in suing VW with estimates that owners could get ‘several thousand’ pounds in compensation. Lawyers, headed by the firm Harcus [...]

Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, has told US estimators that it will pay for pre- and post-repair scans on all vehicles dating back to 1990. According to repairerdrivennews Chubb has contacted its bodyshop partners stating that ‘Chubb has decided that we are going to allow for pre and post scans [...]