World's First Wireless In-Wheel Electric Motor Comes From Japan
4 Jun 2015, 14:22 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / This really looks like a breakthrough: Japanese engineers created and tested what could be the first hub in-wheel electric motor
Toyota, Charged by WiTricity
30 Apr 2011, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The advancements in communications and infotainment technologies for the automotive market are stirring up both the auto industry and the communications one, as companies from both fields of activit...
AT&T to Bring Wireless Power to the Ford Focus Electric
23 Mar 2011, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Being a new breed of vehicles in the Ford stables, the Focus electric, the first passenger electric vehicle to be launched by the American manufacturer, needs more than the ability to use electricit...
GM Uses Super-sized Antenna for Wireless Testing
27 Jan 2011, 09:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Vehicle-sized electronically modulated spherical near-field antenna testing system (ATS), GM calls it, but it’s nothing more than a oversized, super-capable wireless antenna. One which, says GM, cou...
How to Steal a Car Without Forced Entry
19 Jan 2011, 06:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The advancement in technology has made wonders for the automotive world. Today's cars can diagnose themselves, they interact with the driver, they record every possible error for quick fixing a...
AT&T to Provide Wireless Systems in BMWs
4 Jan 2011, 15:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Wireless services, be them traffic information, safety or infotainment functions, have become a must-have in most vehicles out there although their price remains pretty high. From this point of view...
Delphi to Develop Wireless EV Charging Solution
22 Oct 2010, 07:57 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / After Evatran announced back in August it is testing a wireless charging system for electric vehicles that will likely hit the market in 2011, it’s now Delphi’s turn to announce a simila...
AdaCore Solution for Tire Sensors Hack
25 Aug 2010, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earlier this month, a very disturbing news for the automotive industry surfaced. According to research performed by the Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, modern day vehicles a...
Wireless EV Charging Explained
9 Aug 2010, 18:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the first batches of electric vehicles just months away from hitting the market, all eyes turn to that part of the EV world called infrastructure. A sort of make it or brake it deal, the exist...
Plugless Power Wireless EV Charging Coming in 2011
6 Aug 2010, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the world's first two electric vehicle rivals are getting ready to be launched onto the market, the main battle has moved from the two carmakers who produce them, Nissan and Chevrolet, to th...
BMW Offers Wireless Internet in Oz
20 Jul 2010, 06:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Australian division of German manufacturer BMW announced this week it will begin offering starting next month wireless internet functionality for its vehicles/customers. For that to happen, thou...
On-Board Wi-Fi from Citroen
25 Jun 2010, 06:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / French manufacturer Citroen is getting ready to tap deeper into the infotainment features of its cars after announcing it will provide on-board wireless Internet connection for some of its vehicles....
Audi A8 Debuts First Factory-Installed Wireless Access in a Car
24 May 2010, 08:50 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German manufacturer Audi had recently announced it has expanded the optional features on the new Audi A8, which has become the first car in the world to offer an optional factory-installed WLAN hots...
Wireless Car Headphones for Kids from Kidz Gear
27 Jan 2010, 08:48 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Kidz Gear recently launched the first Wireless Car Headphones for Kids designed specifically for children, who are known as being the largest user market of in-car DVD and video systems. According t...
BlueAnt Interphone F4 for Motorcycle Riders
9 Dec 2009, 08:33 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Motorcycle riders have yet another hands-free system to ease their phone communication on the road, thanks to BlueAnt Wireless. The new water resistant Interphone F4 hands-free communication system ...
myCOMAND, Wireless In-Car Internet from Mercedes
9 Oct 2009, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer Daimler announced today what may very well prove to be the next big step in in-car infotainment: project myCOMAND. Simply put, the Mercedes of the not-so-distant future will bene...
Redraven's First Self-Cleaning Dirt Bike Racing Goggles
17 Jun 2009, 10:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Any dirt bike rider knows how uncomfortable it is to remove his/her hands from the handlebars to use pull cord roll-offs and tear-offs to wipe their goggles and clear their vision. Fortunately, Redr...