Category: Cars

Electric DeLorean DMC-12

Posted by – October 6, 2013

DC Power power produces a DC motors and produces a DC motor for electric DeLorean DMC-12 shown here at CEATEC 2013. The DeLorean DMC-12 was used in the film Back To The Future. Thi DeLorean DMC-12 prototype can travel a distance of 50-60km or 31-37 miles with the possibility for more battery.

Pioneer Booth Tour at CEATEC 2013

Posted by – October 6, 2013

Pioneer shows DJ equipment that uses iPads, HUD heads-up-display for cars, speakers, Miracast or MHL functionality, the mixtrax application, electric car wireless charging and more at the CEATEC 2013 consumer electronics conference in Tokyo.

Nissan’s Self-driving Car at CEATEC 2013

Posted by – October 6, 2013

Nissan shows their own self driving car similar to Google’s but without the volodyne radar system. Adding the technology to cars requires few changes to a car. The question is to know how far they are with development and if they can show this car on real roads in real traffic soon like Google does or not.

Velodyne Lidar vision sensor system for the Google Self-driving car

Posted by – January 21, 2013

This Velodyne Lidar rotating sensor measures the environment in 360 degrees around the vehicle to detect the clear path and to detect all the obstacles while in motion on the road. Uses 64 lasers spinning, they can see everything that is in-front, on the side and behind the vehicle in real-time.

Hyundai Blue2 Genesis Electric car and Hyundai Blue Link infotainment system

Posted by – January 21, 2013

Hyundai shows off its concept electric car with all the advanced Hyundai Blue Link technologies built-in. Hyundai also shows off their integrations with Siri and Dragon voice-recognition technologies. They also show off the $22000 Hyundai Veloster Turbo integrating all these infotainment technologies in the car.

Toyota Lexus Integrated Safety, attentive, always vigilant virtual co-pilot

Posted by – January 16, 2013

Toyota is showing off their latest technologies to make cars safer, providing for near self-driving car functionality, they describe this as an attentive, always vigilant virtual co-pilot. Toyota says autonomous is not driver-less for now.

Ford Opens AppLink API to Developers

Posted by – January 16, 2013

Ford shows off New Ford Sync-Compatible Apps. Now all developers can add smart functionality to Ford Sync systems.

General Motors Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system

Posted by – January 16, 2013

Chevrolet announces Apple Siri integration in their cars, showing off the Chevy Volt and Chevy Spark semi-electric cars (short range Electric battery with gasoline power for the rest).

Audi Self-driving car, CES 2013 booth tour

Posted by – January 14, 2013

This video features the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Audi RS5 convertible, Audi Q7 3.0 quattro Surround Sound Concept car, automatic high-beam assistant brights, Audi’s auto pilot: Self-parking and Audi Self-driving, Audi 3D display (automatic barrier glasses free 3D following your eyes), Audi Connect (My Audi portal), Audi A3 Simulator and more.

Kia Uvo, in-car infotainment system with advanced voice- and touch-activated features

Posted by – January 14, 2013

Access your Bluetooth-enabled phone and make hands-free calls and stream your music just by saying the command.

Nvidia Tegra4, Shield, Grid and Cars at CES 2013

Posted by – January 9, 2013

Nvidia launches the new Tegra4, the cloud computing gaming grid and shows how Tegra is used in a couple of cars.

Tourism Radio guides talk as you drive

Posted by – December 8, 2012

Renault has partnered with South African travel tech company Tourism Radio to create in-car virtual audio guides for all their vehicles through their soon to be released R-Link embeded in car system.

Paypal Check In and Pay demonstrated at LeWeb 2012

Posted by – December 7, 2012

Paypal launches a new way to pay for things easily and quickly using a check-process on your smartphone or tablet. Go to the restaurant, launch check in on your paypal app, it launches the restaurant’s menu, you click on the app to order, the server comes with the food, you leave, you’ve already paid. This removes 66% of the waiters effort. Go to a cafe, check-in on paypal, they know you want a cappuccino, you get it quickly and leave, no cash, no confirmation, no anything. You park your car, check in on paypal, that’s it, you’re paying for your car park until you check-out, take the car and leave.

You can watch Paypal CEO, David Marcus’s keynote at LeWeb 2012 here:

Papago Car DVR at the HKTDC Electronics Fair

Posted by – October 18, 2012

Papago releases a Car video recorder that ads GPS to record speed, direction, coordinates, and they also have image detection technology.

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carzapp, new cheaper Internet based car sharing system

Posted by – March 10, 2012

carzapp provides a new cheaper mobile Internet connected locking system, so you can open your car using any smartphone if they give you the authorization for it, you can then add your car to the car sharing network and earn up to $2000 per month (if you have a cool car that many people want to use). They take care of 100% of the insurance for when your car is used by a user. You can choose the price per hour, price per day, you can pick and choose which people or which kind of people can use it (how verified each user is, I guess). Some regions can add up to thousands of electric cars on that car sharing network. The price can be as low as $4 per hour, you can park it based on where the owner wants to park it, or it can also happen that you can just park it wherever you want.

Freescale shows i.MX6 for auto/aero-infotainment with long term support

Posted by – January 19, 2012

Freescale is showing the next generation i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 based in-car infotainment system. Freescale promises to provide 15 years of support for the chip, meaning that car manufacturers can feel confident using the i.MX6 in cars and airplanes, as it takes multiple years to make those, Freescale promises to still manufacture the same processor 15 years from now. They optimize features for cars such as using sensors and cameras for better car safety. Freescale is a global leader in producing processors used in cars.

Renault’s role in web technology, encouraging Android app ecosystem for the car and more

Posted by – December 8, 2011

Matthieu Tenenbaum talks about some of the things they Renault is doing to encourage more technological integration in the car.

Test driving the Renault Twizy Electric Car

Posted by – December 7, 2011

This is an awesome compact electric car, safer than a motorbike, smaller than a car, it’s being sold at around 7000 euros (first deliveries to happen before March 2012), it’s smooth and fast to drive around with, range is enough for most city driving use.

Android for cars using COQOS by OpenSynergy

Posted by – June 27, 2011

They have Android running on the Freescale i.MX53, but it’s running virtualized using a separation micro-kernel they call COQOS offering the real-time features that are required in a car running the industry-standard AUTOSAR software also at the same time, thus this solution is fully secure. You can find more information at http://www.opensynergy.com/en/Products/COQOS

Michelin Active Wheel, electric traction, suspension, breaking

Posted by – June 27, 2011

This new type of wheel includes two motors controlled by Freescale procecssors, one to accelerate the car and to have regenerative breaking, and the second is the manage the suspension and the control of the chassis. This could be transformational for cars, no more engine could be needed under the hood, no more traditional suspension system, and no more gearbox or transmission as all the essential components have been integrated into the wheel itself. The Active Wheel System could outperform Ferrari and Porsche in a straight line when it comes to braking. While a typical high performance supercar takes about six seconds to come to a complete halt from 100km/h, the Michelin concept does it in a mere 2.8 seconds at up to 1G. Find more information: motorauthority.com and gizmag.com