Volvo Cars has signed a framework agreement with Uber to sell tens of thousands of autonomous driving-compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021. The base vehicles are developed on Volvo Cars’ fully modular, in-house-developed scalable product architecture (SPA). SPA is one of the most advanced car architectures in the world and is currently used on [...]

Tesla is aiming to break boundaries again with two new products – its first electric articulated lorry and a new Roadster that will be ‘the fastest production car ever made’. Chief executive Elon Musk unveiled his Tesla truck in Los Angeles yesterday. With a range of 500 miles and able to achieve 0-60mph in 20 [...]

Service King Collision Repair Centers recently celebrated its latest Apprentice Development graduating class. The group included 42 apprentice technicians who each completed the 52-week hands-on training programme hosted inside Service King locations across the country. The 2017 graduating class comprised technicians from nine different states across the US, as the programme continues to grow exponentially. [...]

Carglass executives have visited Symach’s operations in Bologna, Italy to learn more about the Italian equipment, which has recently been installed in five branches in Belgium. The visit saw new Carglass CEO, Guido De Paepe, accompany its top customers to tour the state-of-the-art facility and provide them with a detailed presentation of the operation. De [...]

Members of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament have adopted a non-binding resolution asking for new vehicles to include a range of life-saving technologies. Automated Emergency Braking, Intelligent Speed Assistance and Intelligent Seatbelt Reminders are included in the plan designed to get ‘more effective measures’ to reach the goal of ‘no fatalities’. Almost 26,000 [...]