Although the all-electric Tata Indica on display at the SAE World Congress in Detroit this week is not the soon-to-be-released model, there’s a lot we can learn from the vehicle - and from TM4’s Eriz Azeroual - about how the technology will be implemented when the new model goes on sale in Norway either later [...]

BMW is taking the navigation systems to the next level. They are currently working towards a new navigation system that will learn your driving patterns and adapt the destination based on the previously registered data.Anticipating your next destination is the idea behind this new navigation system.The system is called ILENA, short for Intelligent Learning Navigation [...]

Automaker navigation could get cheaper with a hybrid navigation unit developed by Harman International for Mercedes-Benz. It’s partly integrated into the car and doesn’t require the automaker to lock in a navigation design three years in advance. Harman made the announcement in a quarterly financial statement that was reported by TWICE. It’s described as a [...]

West Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. recently announced a cooperative effort to research systems to help prevent accidents and furnish road information to drivers. West NEXCO, which operates expressways in western Japan, and Nissan will enhance and complement existing information systems using information technology (IT) to provide road and traffic condition [...]

Remember a few years ago when Tesla said it was going to teach Detroit a thing or two about building cars? Well, it appears as though Tesla is learning the hard way that cars aren’t so easy to build. Nor are they particularly cheap to build, especially the electric kind. In the midst of looking [...]

The 2010 Prius debuted today in Detroit and, well, it’s a new Prius. But it’s also a little bit more in a lot of little ways. First, if all you care about is mileage, the number you need to know is a combined rating of 50 mpg, based on Toyota’s own internal testing. That bump [...]

The Australian-based global innovator in the Internet radio industry, miRoamer and one of the world’s leading consumer electronics manufacturers and specialists in car multimedia, Blaupunkt, have announced that they will be showing the world’s first Internet car radio at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). This newly developed Blaupunkt Internet car radio stereos enabling drivers [...]

Mobile TV service MediaFLO made good on its plans toexpand its service beyond cellphones to new devices by announcing at CES a deal with Audiovox to create in-car video displays that receive the live MediaFLO broadcast service. The deal, which was announced in Las Vegas by Audiovox Electronics Corp. president Tom Malone and MediaFLO USA [...]

At CES 2009, the big news from the automotive end of the electronic world was Alan Mulally’s keynote address, in which he and several executive colleagues detailed the latest version of Ford’s electronic savior, Sync. It’s not officially called Sync 3.0, but most Ford and Microsoft folks and suppliers we spoke with called it either [...]

Toyota Motor Corp. is secretly developing a vehicle that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car, a top business daily reported Thursday. The Nikkei newspaper, however, said it will be years before the planned vehicle will be available on the market. [...]