Volvo Car UK is delighted to announce that its S60 and V60 models have been named Best Premium Car of the Year by leading business sales publication Fleet News at an award ceremony last night, beating the Audi A4 and A6 and BMW 3-Series.
The American Problem With Volvo’s Self-Driving Cars
It’s a magnetic idea. The Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo, known the world over as an innovator of automobile technologies, has applied its innovative prowess to developing several unique self-driving car technologies – the latest one using magnets.
Where most self-driving vehicles in development across the industry use onboard radar that receive signals bouncing off objects all around, Volvo’s latest autonomous driving system takes readings from magnetic sensors embedded in the roadway itself.
Volvo Cars initiates Scandinavian pilot using cloud-based communication to make driving safer
Volvo Cars, the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) are joining forces in a pilot project in which road friction information from individual cars is shared within a cloud-based system.
Fuel prices at three-year low, says AA
Fuel prices are at a three-year low, according the AA. Petrol prices in March have been 129.46 pence-per-litre on average, down from 138.42 pence-per-litre in 2013, while the average diesel price was down 8.6 pence-per-litre from 145.24p to 136.59p.
Bozzella named CEO of Association of Global Automakers
International automakers have a new top lobbyist in Washington: John Bozzella, an auto industry veteran who helped to marshal support for Chrysler’s government bailout before leaving the company in 2009.
Bozzella will start April 1 as CEO of the Association of Global Automakers, a coalition of 12 automakers including Honda, Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota.
