Bosch has been named the world’s most admired motor vehicle parts supplier by the US business magazine, Fortune. Fortune’s 2016 World’s Most Admired Companies list is based on surveys from executives, directors and analysts from 652 companies within 54 industries located in 30 countries, and is derived from nine key reputation attributes. In the motor [...]

ABI Research anticipates accelerated adoption of automotive software over-the-air (SOTA) updates with nearly 180 million new SOTA-enabled cars shipping between 2016 and 2022. As the automotive industry ramps up its adoption of the technology, ABI Research forecasts nearly 203 million SOTA-enabled cars to ship by 2022. Both SOTA and firmware over-the-air (FOTA) will see a [...]

The EU Commission’s Fotis Karamitsos believes mobility will be considered as a service in the future. The statement came at the welcome event of the CLEPA – European Association of Automotive Suppliers – aftermarket conference in Brussels where the focus was very much on the future mobility. Karamitsos also pointed towards trends such as changing ownership [...]

Volvo has called for the introduction of standardised charging infrastructure for electric cars. It believes that a simple, standardised, fast and global charging infrastructure is needed to cement this technology and ensure customers fully embrace electric vehicles. Volvo’s senior vice president for research and development Dr Peter Mertens said, ‘We see that a shift towards [...]