Weekly Roundup 34

🚗OEM

1. Full speed ahead: The automotive sector’s resilience imperative (Link)

2. Mercedes-Benz Group Annual Meeting: Transformation on track (Link)

3. Mercedes taps a potent weapon — its F1 program — to overtake Tesla on EVs (Link)

4. VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, report says (Link)

5. Rimac Enters Energy Storage Market With Rimac Energy Brand (Link)

6. Volkswagen suffers 30 per cent profit drop caused by dwindling Chinese sales (Link)

⚡EV

1. Electric vehicle battery state of health monitoring could be made mandatory (Link)

2. Volvo showcases electric excavator, begins testing ahead of commercial sales next year (Link)

3. The era of software-defined battery startups is here (Link)

4. Volvo Increased All-Electric Car Sales In April 2023 By 88% (Link)

5. Skoda produces half a million battery systems for Volkswagen Group vehicles (Link)

6. Geely's London black cab unit unveils new large EV platform (Link)

7. Shell and Volkswagen opens first Flexpole charging station in Germany (Link)

8. Mercedes-Geely Smart JV could see investment from Chinese lithium miner Tianqi (Link)

9. One battery pack per minute: More than 100 KUKA robots in use at FAW-Volkswagen in southern China (Link)

10. StoreDot to make its XFC batteries on three continents (Link)

💾SW Defined Vehicles, Connectivity, Digitalization, Autonomous

1. Stripe, a longtime partner of Lyft, signs a big deal with Uber (Link)

2. A VIN for All: New Tool Documents Vehicle Data Security Levels (Link)

3. VW’s software arm Cariad hires semiconductor expert as US-based CEO (Link)

4. Bosch to revamp mobility unit with goal of $88B in revenue by 2030 (Link)

5. KPIT & ZF join hands to promote an independent company “QORIX” (Link)

6. Volvo Cars partners up with the technology investor and innovation platform driver Plug and Play (Link)

7. LEVC launches its new global pure electric vehicle technology – Space Oriented Architecture (Link)

🛴Mobility

1. Ireland punching above its weight in new mobility innovation (Link)

2. Touring the Alps with battery and hydrogen – CO2-neutral trucks from Daimler Truck demonstrate their capabilities (Link)

3. Traton Group raises profitability target for full-year 2023 (Link)

4. German air taxi company Lilium plans to raise $250M (Link)

5. Toyota and Hyundai broaden fuel-cell semi plans for US (Link)

6. AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment (Link)

✨Interesting

1. Subaru sells reusable shopping bags made of airbag scraps (Link)