Addition of vehicles from Volvo-Geely joint venture for premium mobility solutions to help The Elite Cars redefine mobility in the region with the introduction of the Lynk & Co ‘Global New Premium’ automotive category
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Hyundai appoints DH Park as head of its operations in the Middle East & Africa
Park brings over 27 years of automobile experience with global leadership roles in various positions at Hyundai.
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How Toyota plans to transform mobility at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Approximately 90% percent of Toyota’s vehicles will be electrified, aiming to achieve the lowest emissions target level of any official vehicle fleet used at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Udrive gets $5 million funding for GCC expansion
The new capital will allow Udrive to increase the number of premium cars in its fleet and expand its service into Saudi Arabia
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BMW and Daimler invest $1.1 billion to create urban mobility joint venture
The five joint mobility services include multimodal transport, charging, taxi ride-hailing, parking and car-sharing
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BMW opens training centre in Dubai to prepare staff for major advances in mobility
The Dubai training centre is one of the three centres worldwide offering the ‘High Voltage Expert’ training to staff who will work with electrified BMW vehicles
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Continental’s vision for seamless mobility combines autonomous shuttles and delivery robots
At CES 2019, Continental demonstrated how a driverless vehicle could be used to stage and deploy delivery robots, taking packages all the way to the consumer
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Daimler-BMW mobility joint venture postponed to 2019
With their joint venture, Daimler and BMW plan to combine their mobility services in the fields of car sharing, ride hailing, parking, charging and multimodality
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Dubai RTA announces $160million project to expand smart traffic systems
The project is aimed at increasing the smart system coverage of Dubai roads from the present 11% to 60%, and it includes construction of a new traffic control centre in Al Barsha, Dubai.
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Majority of transport companies in Europe, GCC and Asia expect autonomous trucks to become a viable option within the next decade, according to IRU survey
76% of the 450 transport companies that participated in the survey believe autonomous trucks are just around the corner, but 71% cited cost and investment as the major challenges to adopting new technology