Too small. Too unpleasant for passengers. Zoox, bought by Amazon, makes what it calls a robotaxi. But it looks like a robot shuttle and is a bad compromise of both. As the IDTechEx reports on each explain, a robotaxi is usually an adapted car. Elon Musk expects you to lend your Tesla X to Uber for the day when its autonomy is…
ROTIMI ASHER Year 2020 was riddled by Corona Virus pandemic. The nation’s auto industry was badly bashed. As the world, chorused: “Happy New Year”, the industry limped into the 2021 facing a bleak future. Of course, it recorded a couple of gains. Stallion Group significantly launched Hyundai Kona, the nation’s first Electric Vehicle to be…
The rapidly expanding business of transparent electronics includes transparent electrics and optronics. For example, the new LG and Xiaomi micro-LED displays will constitute the best see-through billboards with “bright images floating in the air” in planned smart cities, self-powering if another layer is added. More giants are becoming involved. Hyundai promises that some of its future electric cars…
“In Nigeria then, Volkswagen Beetle, for instance, was assembled from CKD (Completely Knocked Down) kits. Local contents of over 20% were added. Volkswagen Beetle was then in Nigeria, the People’s car, as it sold for as low as N2,500 per unit…” Since 1950, the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand has been exporting vehicles dismantled into individual…
