Volvo has announced that Polestar, its performance car arm, is to become a new separately-branded electrified global high performance car company, marking the latest stage in Volvo’s ongoing transformation. In order to drive the development of the brand, Volvo also announced today that Thomas Ingenlath, Senior Vice President Design at Volvo, will assume the position of Chief Executive Officer at Polestar. …

In an extremely eventful Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo took 1st place followed by Valterri Bottas and in a surprising 3rd place, Lance Stroll. Stroll took his first podium finish in Formula 1 where he was in second place position before Bottas overtook him just before reaching the chequered flag on the last straight. Here are the highlights from the …

As the ongoing legal case between Waymo vs Uber continues, Waymo’s latest filing claims that ex-CEO, Travis Kalanick, knew that Anthony Levandowski had data from Google. Anthony Levandowski used to work at Google on the self-driving car project before he quit and started his own self-driving truck firm called Otto. A few months later, Otto was acquired by Uber. “On …

NAVYA, a pioneer in developing and manufacturing autonomous vehicles, today announced it will establish its first assembly plant outside of Europe in Southeast Michigan. Beginning last year, the French company partnered with Mcity, a public-private partnership led by the University of Michigan to accelerate advanced mobility vehicles and technologies, to bring the NAVYA ARMA, a 100% driverless, completely electric, autonomous shuttle …

Google Maps, a key tool in navigation which helps millions of people around the world to get to places or to search for places. In India, the 250-year old Survey of India, the country’s survey and mapping agency has come out to say that Google Maps is unreliable. To base these claims, they say that Google Maps is not authenticated by the …

Uber Elevate‘s Director of Engineering, Mark Moore was sharing his vision for personal air transportation at a recent sustainability mobility conference in Canada. Dubbed as the Uber Air service, Moore shared how electric VTOL aircraft is the future and going to transform how people travel. Imagine quiet electric aircraft, not helicopters, would transport people at short trips in short times. …