Weekly Roundup 56

🚗OEM

1. VW brand to slash administrative expenses in $11 billion cost-cutting drive (Link)

2. Xpeng G9 achieves a five-star 2023 safety rating from Euro NCAP (Link)

3. China’s Electric Car Factories Can’t Hire Fast Enough (Link)

4. Suzuki introduces the all-new Swift (Link)

5. Suzuki Motor Gujarat achieves 3 million cumulative production (Link)

6. Lamborghini introduces four-day week for production workers (Link)

7. Flexibility is crucial to winning over Germany, says Xpeng (Link)

8. Tesla faces class action for overcharging insurance with fake crash warnings (Link)

9. Tata Motors launches vehicle scrapping facility in Chandigarh (Link)

10. VW considering cooperation with Renault on 20,000-euro electric car -Handelsblatt (Link)

11. Musk’s Scandinavian woes deepen as Tesla loses Swedish court case, Finnish union joins port blockade (Link)

12. Volkswagen’s new exit warning system reduces dangers when opening the doors (Link)

13. Honda will reveal a new EV series at CES 2024 (Link)

14. Automakers race to reduce battery costs to compete with Chinese companies (Link)

15. Stellantis Reducing Production at Detroit, Toledo Plants (Link)

16. Tesla update coming next week adds useful features, and an annoying one (Link)

⚡EV

1. Tesla starts selling fully-loaded Cybertruck ‘Foundation Series’ for $120,000 (Link)

2. Lithium-ion battery prices hit record low, drop 14% from 2022: BloombergNEF (Link)

3. THK reveals LSR-05 advanced technology EV prototype (Link)

4. Rivian To Introduce Cheaper, Lighter Battery Pack In 2024: CFO (Link)

5. Symbio holds opening of Europe’s largest fuel cell production plant (Link)

6. Split-chemistry battery boosts BMW iX all-electric range to 608 miles (Link)

7. EV charging growth plans slowed by EU's power grid problems (Link)

8. EU automakers have secured less than a fifth of the battery metals they’ll need by 2030 (Link)

9. Northvolt Receives Federal Funding Despite Budget Freeze (Link)

10. Stellantis to test EV battery swapping technology with Ample (Link)

11. Marelli Joins the Hydrogen Rush (Link)

12. Volkswagen integrates bi-directional charging technology into its ID. EVs (Link)

13. StoreDot ends 2023 as world’s leading company making extreme fast charging battery technology (Link)

14. Korean-Built EVs Are The Fastest Charging On The Market (And Some Of The Slowest, Too) (Link)

💾SW Defined Vehicles, Connectivity, Digitalization, Autonomous

1. Gracenote’s new data platform lets automakers customize infotainment offerings (Link)

2. Stellantis’ Virtual Workbench for Automotive Software Evolution and Connected Mobility (Link)

3. Kodiak Robotics develops an autonomous Ford F-150 for the Defense Department (Link)

4. LG reveals native Netflix app for its webOS IVI content platform (Link)

5. Continental to spin off user experience unit (Link)

6. Magna Joins Sweden’s NorthStar 5G Network for ADAS (Link)

7. The future of automotive retail (Link)

8. SoftBank Corp. takes 51% of Cubic Telecom for $513M to drive into the connected car world (Link)

9. Egypt’s Mtor nabs $2.8M pre-seed for its online auto parts marketplace (Link)

10. Where are all the robot trucks? (Link)

11. BYD selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider (Link)

12. Autonomous trucks are taking off in China—is Europe next? (Link)

13. Optimizing Lot Management With Advanced Connected-Vehicle Data (Link)

14. What is Android Auto? (Link)

15. Airbus and BMW Group launch Quantum Computing Competition to tackle their most pressing mobility challenges. (Link)

16. Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers to move the industry (Link)

17. Renault Taps AI to Cut EV Production Costs in Half by 2027 (Link)

18. Generative AI’s Impact on the Automobile Industry‘s Future (Link)

🛴Mobility

1. India Electric Three-Wheelers (E3Ws) Battery Swapping Analysis Report 2023 (Link)

2. A new MaaS solution without custom development (Link)

3. Scania’s new biogas engines: Going greener with 5% fuel savings (Link)

4. Logistics and transportation industry: Bosch launches service platform in Europe, India, and the United States (Link)

5. How to build a bike lane in America (Link)

6. New York City opens 8,500 acres of parking lots to solar canopies (Link)

✨Interesting

1. The Ducati Diavel Gets A Bentley Batur-Inspired Limited Edition (Link)

2. Driving Rolls-Royce’s First Electric Vehicle: The Spectre | First Drive (Link)

3. An exclusive look inside the most advanced Mercedes-Benz car factory in the world (Link)

4. Polestar 4 grabs Car Design of the Year gong, beating the Kia EV9 and Volvo XC30 (Link)

5. A Maharaja’s 1930 Mercedes SS Cabriolet Is Both A Risky And Rewarding Ride (Link)

6. A 650HP Lamborghini Urus Is No Match For The Tri-Motor Tesla Cybertruck In A Drag Race (Link)