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🗞️ #reading_recommendation🗞️ #Cars are becoming more complex, and #repairs increasingly require specialized knowledge and (ALL)#DATA. An optimal data foundation is essential for proper repairs. ALLDATA Repair provides exactly that by offering access to the original data from vehicle manufacturers. This article from Verlag Kaufhold ATZ Media Solutions #FreieWerkstatt magazine delves into these challenges and ALLDATA Europe solutions https://lnkd.in/e_59E_Sz

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🚖 Tesla Model S 692,000Km with Original Battery! 🚖 🔋🌱 As a battery technology expert, I find it truly remarkable that a Tesla Model S, used as an airport taxi in England, has covered 430,000 miles (around 692,000 kilometers) over eight years with its original battery and motors. Despite intensive use and nearly daily fast charging, this milestone showcases the incredible advancements and durability of modern #BatteryTechnology. 🌍 This achievement highlights how far we've come in a relatively short time with #batteries. The longevity and reliability of the original #battery and motors in such a demanding application provide a strong case for the wider adoption of green technology. It demonstrates that electric vehicles (#EVs) can not only match but potentially exceed the performance and lifespan of traditional combustion engines under rigorous conditions. 🛠️ From an expert’s perspective, this is a significant validation of the robustness of current battery chemistries and the effectiveness of #BatteryManagement systems. The implications for sustainability are profound. As we continue to enhance the efficiency, lifespan, and affordability of batteries, the transition to a more #sustainable transportation ecosystem becomes increasingly viable. 🚗 This milestone is a testament to the progress in electric vehicles and a promising indicator of a sustainable future. It reassures us that with continued innovation and investment, green technology can meet and surpass our expectations. Here's to the continued evolution of battery technology and the promising path towards a greener world. 🌍🔋 👉 Jesse Morris 🔔 Follow Jesse Morris and modual AG to stay informed of exciting developments in: #BatteryTech, #Sustainability and GreenTechnology Source: https://lnkd.in/ds8iWnc5

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Handelsblatt Exklusive: Following the software deal between Volkswagen and Rivian, the two car manufacturers are exploring further areas of partnership, several insiders from both companies told us. According to them, both a hardware cooperation and joint production are being discussed: 🚘 One scenario for an expanded #partnership involves Rivian's new #R2 SUV being produced at the VW plant currently under construction in South Carolina. SUVs and pick-ups from VW's new US EV brand Scout are to roll off the production line at this site from 2026. The R2 is due to be launched around the same time. The ideas are at an early stage and could be put aside again, the insiders said. How well the partnership between Rivian and VW gets off the ground in the critical #software area is likely to be of key importance. 🚦 A VW spokesperson declined to comment on speculation about an extended partnership. A Rivian spokesperson said: "There are currently no cooperation plans for the hardware sector." Last week, the German OEM and the US start-up announced the establishment of a new joint #venture in the software sector. Volkswagen is investing up to five billion dollars. The goal: use the start-up's expertise to develop an operating system for the next generation of EVs that is better than what CARIAD has to offer. ⚡ Further cooperation is likely to involve VW's new subsidiary Scout Motors Inc. VW is investing five billion dollars here: in the construction of the new plant and in the development of an independent platform. According to an insider, #OliverBlume told RJ Scaringe that VW does not know how to proceed with Scout. Its development would cost billions, despite the changed market environment. Accordingly, even a discontinuation of the Scout project had been discussed. 💡 In an interview with me, Scout CEO Scott Keogh contradicts this statement: "Oliver Blume is 100 percent behind our vision." Scout is bringing "an iconic brand back to life" with a "phenomenal product". The end of Scout has not been discussed, on the contrary: "The Group has made the decision to grow in #NorthAmerica, the largest economy in the world. One of the strategies necessary for this is the revival of Scout in the heart of the USA." Full story with Lazar Backovic in Handelsblatt:

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https://lnkd.in/d2ia3fZy The engine manufacturer Deutz sets priorities. While other companies are relying entirely on the development of e-mobility, Deutz wants to concentrate on a different energy source. Combustion engines with hydrogen are intended to ensure economic success. Cologne-based Deutz AG, a world-famous engine manufacturer, is realigning itself. In the future, there will be a separate department for the development of green engine variants. Deutz does not want to concentrate solely on e-mobility, reports the Handelsblatt. Rather, the company management sees hydrogen technology as a promising solution for the future. The company boss also relies on the combustion engine concept In the run-up to the general meeting on May 8th, company boss Sebastian Schulte told the Handelsblatt: “We have to become clearer in the green business and focus more on technologies in which we have a lead with our know-how.” Schulte sees this lead in development of hydrogen combustion engines. Here you can use the experience with petrol and diesel engines with which Deutz has been successful so far. The CEO explained that Deutz wanted to become a “pioneer” when it came to hydrogen engines.

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Trying to measure “Innovation Strength” of OEMs in 2023 (!), and showing the top sellers in the BEV group - published today by Handelsblatt While I cannot change the Handelsblatt material and I find it really well done I suggest to call it “Electromobility Innovation Ranking” - see below *** why. A few details are needed. ➡️ The source of the ranking is the institute lead by Stefan Bratzel, Prof. Dr.: Center of Automotive Management (CAM) ➡️ the 2023 BEV Sales ranking on the right is straightforward ➡️ the column on the left is listing GEELY as leader for 2023 ➡️ interesting how neither Tesla or BYD took the top spot on the left, and where they are placed for 2023. ➡️ the long term ranking by innovation reads: 1 Tesla 2 Volkswagen Group 3 Geely 4 BYD 5 Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차) *** ➡️ Methodology for the 2023 ranking: CAM individually evaluated 512 innovations in electromobility for the past year alone that ended up in the sold product. Chinese manufacturers have developed 45 percent of these product and technology innovations and brought them to series production. German car manufacturers e.g. only have 20 percent. ➡️ Other ways to quantify - thank you Wim De Ketele: https://lnkd.in/ekW8c-7z I highly recommend the article in print and online at Handelsblatt: https://lnkd.in/e7bmZXPN #ww244 #technology #markets #innovation #future #strategy #ww520 #wgtp1

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What’s the status quo on autonomy and how does the roadmap look like? Tobias Grimm and me took the chance to discuss these questions on the Bitkom Tech Weekly Podcast, after the recent testing of an autonomous semi-hauler by MAN Truck & Bus SE on public highways. My key takes: ✅ Autonomy will be introduced more gradual than expected a few years ago. First deployments are in off-highway applications, such as construction, mining and yard logistics. Highway trucking is going to be the first large scale deployment, most likely earlier than Robotaxis. ✅ Safety is a top priority for companies in the space. Combination of different sensing technologies and progress in safe artificial intelligence are key to commercial deployments. ✅ Germany has done great progress on the regulation side. There is definitely a need for refinements, but the key focus is now for companies to work with the certification authorities to implement sound safety strategies and validate these with clear evidence. Link to the full podcast is here: https://lnkd.in/djmUe6td discussing the things mentioned above as well as shining a spotlight on the important topic how to increase diversity in the tech and broader IT sector with Susanne Dehmel! #autonomousdriving #mapless

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„🔋🔌 Have you ever navigated to a charging station, only to find out, that the location wasn't quite accurate? With swarm data, we can change that! ☝🤓 Here’s how: today's navigation systems use "Points of Interest" (POIs) to guide you to a destinations. 💬 “At CARIAD, the POI Management brings together various data sources for Points of Interest, combines them with the navigation applications, and continuously updates and improves the database,” explains Volker Remuß, Product Manager, POI Management. 💡 One dedicated team focuses on "Charging Points of Interest" (cPOIs). Their accuracy can be improved with the Charging Feedback solution. This solution uses swarm data to refine the accuracy of charging stations and ensures that the POI database is always up to date. Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ When you start a charging session at a public cPOI, your vehicle shares the location to the POI Management database. 2️⃣ The Charging Feedback solution then validates the location or identifies potential improvements for the cPOI. 3️⃣ The enhanced data is merged with the existing database and updated in the system. Around 78,000 charging points locations have already been enhanced, improving the charging experience for Volkswagen, AUDI AG, Škoda Auto, CUPRA, SEAT S.A., and Porsche AG drivers! This also benefits users of our brand-specific smartphone apps, such as My Porsche and MyAudi.“

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MOBILITY OF THE FUTURE – USING INSTEAD OF OWNING WITH #EDAG #CITYBOT. According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of all people will be living in cities in 2050. In megacities with 10 million inhabitants or more. Across the globe, there are already 36 megacities, including New York, Moscow and London. This rapid growth could result in the essential infrastructure being unable to keep up, threatening cities with collapse, as local public transport, electricity, water supplies and waste collection become overburdened. We can all call to mind images of completely overcrowded subways or interminable traffic jams, with endless streams of vehicles every day trying to make their way along smog-filled, congested roads. In Madrid, for example, 80% of the total city area is taken up by driving or parked cars. The impact on people and the environment is immense. To counter this, urban and transport planners are focusing on “Smart Cities” – cities that, with the help of digital technologies, are to become more environmentally friendly, offer greater sustainability, mobility and safety, are more economical and quite simply more life enhancing. The term Smart City therefore stands for all-round development concepts for the city of the future. With the help of scenario technology, #EDAG has been looking into the famous crystal ball for you, and, on the basis of future-oriented influence parameters, forecasting how changes in society, politics or sociology, for instance, but also in technology might change the future, and predicting what developments can be expected in the next 5/10/15 years. It goes without saying that, as experts in integrated vehicle development, our chief interest is in the mobility of tomorrow. For the #CityBot, we combined our engineering competencies in the fields of vehicle engineering, electrics/electronics and production solutions. See you more in details: https://lnkd.in/d4u_t2tj #EDAG #SmartCity #Citybot #Innovation #AutonomousDriving #Sustainability

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Lars Reinkemeyer, thanks for a great exchange on Process Intelligence and our exciting journey at BMW Group! We‘ve achieved great things already together with Celonis and our fantastic team, but there still is so much more to come! I‘m very much looking forward to it! 😉👍 And thanks a lot for really interesting questions by amazing transformation leaders! I really enjoyed it! #ProcessMining #ProcessIntelligence #BMW #Celonis

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#SDV and #AI in Automotive. My takeaways 👇 These were the main topics at the #automotivesoftwarestrategies conference. > Mastering complexity is a challenge for OEMs, Tier-1 and everyone else > BTW: It was perceived that there is no longer a strong distinction between OEM, Tier-1 and everyone. Everyone can take every role. > Everyone needs access to the same information and needs to collaborate. > Reuse of #software is still a dream. Many people recommend reuse. Only a few can demonstrate success reuse. > Shift-north: functions will be moved from ECUs to Zone Controllers to HPC to the cloud. > Shift-left: you can gain a lot of benefits by doing things earlier in the development process. This was formerly known as "front loading" 🙄 > OpenSource is not for cost savings, but for complexity management. > 85% of software is non-differentiating. Puh. > All bigger systems use #qnx, #android and/or #linux. #Autosar will only survive in small ECU and on safety islands 🏝 > There are many consortia, that want drive SDV. Too many? > time-to-market is a big issue for all players > #GenAI can play an important role in software development. There are many ideas on how to support development teams: reverse engineer requirements, write code and documentations, check consistencies, recommend corrections, find & combine information, generate test cases > with RAG globally available LLMs can be combined with local & domain knowledge Please write 🖊 a comment on your view 👁‍🗨 on #SDV and #AI in automotive software development.

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↘ Germany is losing its position as the leading European market for e-mobility in terms of vehicle volume sold. 🚗 While new BEV registrations in Germany fell by 14% to 81 thousand units, the United Kingdom recorded growth of 11% to 84 thousand BEVs. 🚗France also reported a strong increase of 24% to 80 thousand BEVs. Even if you include PHEVs, the United Kingdom with 127 thousand new registrations is just ahead of Germany with 126 thousand EVs and France with 119 thousand EVs. More information: Electromobility Report 2024: https://lnkd.in/eNx_NNbT

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In April 2010, Daimler helped the then financially weak electric car manufacturer Tesla with 50 million dollars. This not only gave Tesla a boost to its reputation, but also ensured its continued existence, which is viewed with mixed feelings in Stuttgart today. Now a well-known German car manufacturer is once again making a commitment to a US electric car manufacturer, this time with a substantial sum of up to five billion dollars. Volkswagen is planning to invest this amount in Rivian. This will give the Wolfsburg-based company access to Rivian's proven vehicle software - two billion of the funds will go towards a cooperation project. And the Californian electric car manufacturer will have a little more financial freedom. Its pickup truck and SUV are very popular, and its fans are just as enthusiastic as those of Tesla. But so far, the company, which was founded in 2009, has only made losses. In the first quarter, it lost almost 39,000 dollars gross for every vehicle sold. However, founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has signaled that he will soon break even with cost-cutting measures and greater efficiency in production.  VW's financial commitment is also important if Rivian is to have a future.  However, VW has not had good experiences with software investments in the USA, see the bankruptcy of ArgoAI in October 2022. https://lnkd.in/gKaC99vn

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The truth about The software-defined vehicle (a most read Linkedin): It's not every day I am starstruck, but Dr. Moritz Neukirchner is a star in the community, and I had the pleasure of listening to him at the latest Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance (COVESA) AMM in Göteborg. In just one slide, we got the concept of the software-defined vehicle: "The software-defined vehicle ... is not about • Just adding over-the-air updates • Just about adding connectivity • Just about have more software in a vehicle It is about • Time-to-market for software innovation • Decoupling lifecycles of parts that inherently have different lifetimes • Changing the understanding of ownership and collaboration • Changing development practices • Changing business models" #automotiveindustry #electricvehicles #diagnostics #softwaredefinedvehicle #automotive #covesa

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Here are four key points regarding #Volkswagen's progress in #China, based on the latest reports: 1. **Market Share**: Volkswagen has experienced a slight decrease in market share in China, from **15.1%** to **14.5%**. Despite this, they managed to increase vehicle deliveries by **1.6%** compared to the previous year, with a total of **3.2 million vehicles** delivered, including imports¹. 2. **Electric Vehicle (EV) Segment**: The EV segment is rapidly growing in China, and local manufacturers dominate this market, benefiting from significant government subsidies. Volkswagen's role in the EV market is relatively small, but they are making strides with models like the ID.3 and ID.4, which are among the top-selling electric vehicles². 3. **Innovation and Development**: Volkswagen is focusing on sustainable business models and has strengthened its development capabilities in China. The newly established Volkswagen China Technology Company (VCTC) aims to reduce the time to market for vehicles and components by **30%** through efficient development processes and advanced technologies¹. 4. **Competition and Challenges**: The Chinese market is highly competitive with over **100 local competitors**. Volkswagen is facing challenges due to the rise of local brands, which are innovating and gaining market share, partly due to state subsidies. However, Volkswagen is responding by enhancing its product portfolio and focusing on the 'in China for China' approach to cater to local market needs². These points highlight the complexities of #Volkswagen's situation in #China, balancing between competition, market dynamics, and strategic shifts towards electrification and innovation.

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🔋 Exciting Insights from last week's Advanced Battery Power Conference There have been 2 days full of battery innovation and research at Münster with many talks, interesting speeches and high attendance numbers (>1,100). We FEV Europe GmbH had a stand at the booth and were able to hold many interesting discussions thanks to Bernd Hömberg, Prof. Martin Winter and Dirk Uwe Sauer. Here are my key findings: 📌 The most important prerequisites for EU competitiveness in the battery sector are low energy costs and industry funding. Current support from public authorities needs to be improved. In particular, EU research has made some gains in the development of solid-state battery cells, but CN consortia of cell suppliers will follow quickly 📌 Future cell formats will be mainly prismatic and cylindrical parallel, pouch with lower share 📌 Cell chemistry is evolving: LFP is further gaining traction; sodium-ion is becoming more interesting and NMC remains the choice for high energy applications. Interestingly, Solid-State technologies not have been in main focus beside the interest of the Chinese Suppliers forming a consortia… 📌 Main safety issues of last years due to thermal runaway / propagation are under control at system level, energy density vs. fast charging under discussion and cost reduction expected 📌 2nd life applications will be a niche; recycling and reprocessing will play an important role at the end of a battery product's life as customers in all sectors expect best performance 📌 Recycling is complex and not yet standardized, overcapacity is expected in the EU, but with little know-how; we can assume that the cost of battery cells will have to be increased in the future due to recycling, which will affect the attractiveness of the technologies; with the greatest negative impact on LFP, as the recycling of LFP is complex and the recycled raw materials are of low value 📌 the European gigafactories are starting operations, but initially see themselves as (fast) followers of the established suppliers => Battery production remains a challenge 📌 CO2 footprint of Li-Ion batteries is decreasing further to already <30kg CO2 / kWh with using renewable energy     Further I had the honor to lead a session for "battery application" together with Jörg Huslage with four interesting presentations 1️⃣ "Premium Platform Electric (PPE): development of superior charging performance" by Bernhard Rieger 2️⃣ "Battery-in-the cloud for modelbased adaptive control strategies" by Dr. Gerald Rämisch 3️⃣ "Safety Requirements of Stationary Energy Storage Systems for the North American Market" by Juergen Boeck 4️⃣ "Application Driven Differences in Design and Operation of Large-Scale Batteries" by Susanne Lehner 🙏 Thanks to all participants, speakers and organizers for the great event! #Battery #cell #fev

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