Mattel, AirConsole, and BMW Group announce UNO Car Party!

Mattel’s classic card game UNO will be revealed next week for in-car gaming in Cologne, Germany, at Gamescom 2024, where visitors to the AirConsole booth will be the first to experience a tailored version of the card game in the new BMW X3 as it rolls out to over 500,000 BMW and Mini vehicles.

Zero Labs introduces carbon-fiber Goldar, its latest classic car electrification project

The classic first-generation Ford Bronco homage has an all-carbon-fiber body and 600-hp dual-motor electric powertrain based on its new ZLABS 4.0 platform, the latest step toward its goal to develop and support the revolution to decarbonize millions of fossil-fuel-based vehicles by the end of the next decade.

IDTechEx finds ag tractors a good fit for battery propulsion among off-highway applications

Among off-highway vehicle applications in construction, agriculture, and mining industries, many tractors for agricultural uses see seasonal work and sporadic usage, which means fewer cycles are needed over a vehicle’s lifetime, opening up battery options to more cutting-edge and emerging technologies.

Lenovo’s AD1 is one of the first Nvidia Thor Blackwell AI applications

The Level 4 autonomous driving domain controller, to be used in WeRide’s robobus, incorporates FP4 and FP8 AI inference, resulting in a fivefold increase in the inference speed of transformer models, computing power of 2100 TOPS, and functional safety levels up to ISO 26262 ASIL-D.

Altair announced 2024 Enlighten Award winners

Presented in association with the Center for Automotive Research earlier this week, the award honors the greatest sustainability and lightweighting advancements that successfully reduce carbon footprint, mitigate water and energy consumption, and leverage material reuse and recycling efforts.