
Volvo will give up on completely petrol cars by 2019
Out of gas
Volvo has announced that starting in 2019, all of the new models it produces will be electric or hybrid.

Nvidia joins Volvo-based self-driving car consortium
Level Four self-driving by self-driving by 2021
Autoliv and Volvo Car Corporation, with Zenuity, a newly-formed automotive software development joint venture equally owned by Autoliv and Volvo, will work together with Nvidia to develop next generation self-driving car technologies.

Connected car demand to rise 29.1 percent
Fuji Keizai claims 90 percent will be connected by 2035
Demand for connected cars has been rising and the type of vehicles are expected to account for 29.1 percent of overall car shipments in 2017 and by 2035, according to beancounters at Fuji Keizai.

BlackBerry pipped in car market
Only days after thinking it was going to save its bacon
Only a few days after BlackBerry announced that getting into the motoring business was helping it climb back from the dead, it has had to downplay news that Toyota would adopt rival software for its future vehicle consoles.

BlackBerry doing well by not being BlackBerry
Car market to save company bacon
A top Wall Street analyst has said that the maker of the Crackberry is set to clean up in the car market.

Apple gets self-driving car testing licence
Don’t hold your breath
The Tame Apple Press was over the moon this morning after it was revealed that the fruity cargo cult has got a licence to test self-driving cars.

Tesla autopilot was 40 percent safer
Surprise result from the death inquiry
A watchdog investigation into the death of a Tesla car driver when he was running the car on auto-pilot had some unexpected good news for the car market.

Tesla let off the hook in death probe
User error in “self-driving” car
US car safety regulators have cleared Tesla of involvement in the death of a bloke whose Model S collided with a truck while he was using its Autopilot system.

Amazon working on self-driving car
Alexa take me to the pub
Online book-seller Amazon is working on self-driving cars.

We're piecing together Cook’s cunning plan
What is next for the cargo-cult?
While it is still earning piles of cash, Apple is stuffed unless Tim Cook comes up with a cunning plan to save it.