Neowin News Feed for: Daimler

Waymo shelves self-driving commercial trucking operations in favor of taxi cab business

Ishtiaqe Hanif — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:48:01 +0000

The CEOs of Waymo, Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, said that their company will now be primarily focused on ride-hailing services, and will be investing their efforts and resources accordingly. Read more...

Daimler AG debuts its own electric truck called the E-Fuso Vision One

Timi Cantisano — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:42:01 +0000

Although Tesla has become the face of the industry when it comes to electric vehicles, the firm was forced to delay the reveal of its semi truck. Now, Daimler AG has announced its own electric truck. Read more...

The Volocopter will debut as the world's first autonomous flying taxi, late in 2017 in Dubai

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:16:01 +0000

"The flying car has no wheels" says one of the German contributors behind a 25 million Euro investment into the Volocopter, an electric 2 seater flying vehicle which will also be funded by Daimler. Read more...

Head of Mercedes is impressed with Google and Apple's car efforts

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:12:01 +0000

Daimler CEO and head of Mercedes-Benz, Dieter Zetsche, said he came away impressed after a recent meeting with Silicon Valley companies. What impressed him? Apple and Google's cars. Read more...

Nokia sells HERE to Audi, BMW and Daimler for $3 billion

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 07:00:08 +0000

After months of rumors and speculation, Nokia has finally revealed that it has sold its mapping and location service, HERE, to a consortium of German auto-makers including BMW and Audi. Read more...

Nokia has reportedly sold HERE Maps to Audi, BMW and Daimler

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:38:01 +0000

After lengthy negotiations and numerous bids, a recent report claims that Nokia is about sign off on a $2.71 billion deal to transfer the ownership of its mapping service to the three automakers. Read more...