Volume 4 Issue 17

Rivian updates electric R1S SUV and R1T pickup


While the overall design inside and out is the same, updates were made to some design elements, trim, and tire choices, with more significant changes come with new motor configurations, re-engineered batteries, zonal electrical architecture, and compute and autonomy platforms.

Totem Automobili unveils latest GT Electric commission


Delivered to its lucky owner at the Villa d’Este Concours of Elegance, “Armonia” is the latest electrified and hand-crafted carbon-fiber recreation from the new Italian company with a classic design based on one of the most iconic Italian cars of the 1960s and 1970s, the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA.

Nvidia Research kicks off CVPR with Autonomous Grand Challenge win


For the winning entry showcased at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference running this week in Seattle, Nvidia used its Hydra-MDP to ingest vehicle trajectory history and camera and lidar data at a reduced frame rate and generate the optimal vehicle path as an output in a simplified end-to-end architecture said to optimize pipelines with less code and better performance.

WEVC unveils architecture for low- to medium-volume high-performance passenger EVs


The company says the highly flexible platform, which also underpins its eCV1 light commercial vehicle, enables cost-effective production of almost any low- to medium-volume EV, providing a complete ‘off-the-shelf’ platform solution for it and customers to go electric quickly.

AIR unveils unmanned ONE Cargo eVTOL for logistics market


It says that its “exponential growth” in revenue since expansion into cargo and logistics—in addition to its manned, “personal use” variant—demonstrates its “great promise” as the company continues pursuing mass eVTOL production.

Bitsensing secures Series B to bring ‘radar everywhere’


The company will use the $25 million in funding to expand the use of its high-performance, automotive-grade radar across a variety of applications such as autonomous driving, smart cities, and health tech.

May Mobility launches Detroit autonomous vehicle pilot program


The AV service, in partnership with the Detroit Office of Mobility Innovation and the Michigan Mobility Collaborative, will provide free rides to older and disabled downtown residents using AVs with May Mobility’s Multi-Policy Decision Making technology to navigate city streets.

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