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Cambridge GaN Devices develops 650-V gallium nitride integrated circuit for automotive inverters

Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) said it has developed a 650-volts gallium nitride (GaN) integrated circuit (IC) for automotive applications aimed at improving inverter efficiency in electric vehicles. The company said its ICeGaN technology is intended to enable smaller and lighter inverters, which can help extend EV range as automakers seek to shift consumer demand away from internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrains and toward EVs. CGD said using GaN ICs in parallel in powertrai...

KPIT collaborates with Basemark to develop multiscreen automotive HMI solutions

Basemark has entered into a strategic collaboration with KPIT Technologies to accelerate the development and large-scale rollout of next-generation multiscreen human-machine interface (HMI) systems for automotive original equipment manufacturers. KPIT has joined Basemark's Rocksolid ecosystem as its first certified partner, a step intended to help automakers move more quickly to production-grade HMI programs while meeting automotive requirements for safety, reliability and performance. B...

Samsung SDI signs large-scale battery supply contract with Volkswagen

Samsung SDI is preparing to supply Volkswagen Group with its standardized electric vehicle batteries, expanding its presence in Europe’s fast-evolving EV supply chain. The South Korean battery-maker is modifying production lines at its Göd plant in Hungary to manufacture Volkswagen’s Unified Cell, a prismatic battery format designed for use across multiple brands and models. Equipment installation is already underway, with mass production expected to begin in 2027, according to industry ...

Valeo and Zuken form strategic partnership for AI-assisted electronic design platform

Valeo and Zuken have announced a strategic partnership to create an advanced, open, AI-assisted electronic design platform through their joint "Zuken Valeo InnoLab" program. The partnership will combine Zuken's AI architecture and cutting-edge AI roadmap with Valeo's "AI Agents" and industrial expertise, with the goal of integrating AI across the entire design flow. The collaboration aims to significantly reduce design times and ensure robustness in electronic design by establishing an ecosystem...

Oxfordshire County to expand EV charging infrastructure with 1,500 new public EV chargers

Oxfordshire will install more than 1,500 new public electric vehicle charging sockets by 2028 after awarding contracts to charge-point operators Connected Kerb and EZ-Charge, local authorities said. The rollout, expected over the next two years, will more than double the number of public EV chargers available across the county. Connected Kerb will install and operate on-street charging points on highways as well as at Oxfordshire County Council park-and-ride facilities and other public car...

Volkswagen presents prototype of an autonomous charging robot in Dresden

Volkswagen presented a prototype autonomous charging robot in Dresden, Germany, marking the public debut of a system designed to support electric vehicle charging infrastructure in urban areas. The robot is being developed with the Mobility Data Space of Dresden-based research institute Fraunhofer IVI as part of the MOBILITIES for EU project, funded under the EU’s Horizon Europe program. The initiative is tied to Smart City Dresden’s plans to create a sustainable mobility concept for the ...

Next-generation Opel Astra to be based on STLA ONE platform

Stellantis announced on June 8 that the next-generation Opel Astra will be designed, engineered and manufactured at its Rüsselsheim facility in Germany on the carmaker’s all-new STLA ONE platform. The announcement reinforces Stellantis’ commitment to Germany as a production hub. Opel plans to launch at least four new models by 2030. These include next-generation versions of the Astra and Corsa, as well as a new C-segment sport utility vehicle being developed with Chinese partner Leapmoto...

Astemo Americas joins Nvidia Drive Hyperion ecosystem as tier 1 partner

Astemo Americas is working with Nvidia as a Hyperion tier 1 partner to develop dual Nvidia Drive AGX Thor electronic control units (ECUs) for automotive original equipment manufacturers, a move that expands its participation in the Nvidia Drive Hyperion ecosystem as automakers seek to progress from Level 2 systems toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs) intended to be ready for Level 4 capability. Nvidia Drive Hyperion is a reference architecture and ecosystem designed to support th...

China speed and the challenge for Western OEMs: Q&A with eSync Alliance

For much of the past decade, Western carmakers viewed mainland China primarily as a market. Increasingly, they are forced to view it as a source of competitive pressure — and, in some respects, a model for industrial change. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rise of “China Speed”: the ability of mainland Chinese automakers to develop, launch and iterate vehicles at a pace that established American and European manufacturers struggle to match. The difference is not simply one of ...

The Shape of Glass to Come: Q&A with Eastman

For much of the car’s history, glass was treated as little more than transparent shielding: a passive barrier between occupants and the elements. That conception is gradually disappearing. In the age of electric vehicles, automotive glazing is being recast as an active engineering platform — part climate-control system, part acoustic insulator, part structural member and part digital interface. The shift reflects the changing priorities of modern mobility. Electric drivetrains, being quie...

Interior Insight: Nissan Qashqai

The family car was once a blunt instrument. It needed to seat five, swallow a pram and survive supermarket car parks. Style was optional; charm was rare. Yet over the past decade, the family crossover has become the automotive industry’s central product: a machine expected not merely to transport but also to reassure, entertain and flatter. Few vehicles in Europe embody that evolution more fully than the Nissan Qashqai, whose latest interior reflects a broader transformation in automotive desi...

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Supply Chain
14-May-2026

The V-Model, recompiled: Q&A with MAHLE Powertrain

For decades, the automotive industry has relied on the V-model as its preferred blueprint for engineering discipline. Conceived in an era when vehicle systems were largely mechanical and development cycles stretched comfortably over several years, the model offered manufacturers a reassuringly linear logic: requirements flowed downward through design and implementation before climbing back upward through validation and verification. Each stage mirrored another, and every requirement could, in pr...

Hitting the software wall: the limits of consolidation in ADAS and automated driving systems

Hardware consolidation in modern vehicles is no longer the industry's defining challenge, although it remains far from complete. The direction of travel is clear: from dozens of discrete electronic control units (ECUs) toward fewer, more capable compute platforms. Domain-centric solutions, including ADAS domain controllers (ADCs) and cockpit domain controllers (CDCs), have been the dominant intermediate step and are likely to remain the largest part of the industry for at least the next decade. ...

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09-Jun-2026

Air suspension technology set to take off in the EV and software defined vehicle era

Air suspension has long been used in vehicles as an alternative to conventional coil and leaf spring suspensions, offering superior ride comfort and handling. The system relies on compressed air to support the vehicle’s weight and adjust its ride height. It uses compressed-air-filled rubber bellows (also called air springs or air bags) and advanced control systems that allow drivers to adjust the vehicle’s height for various road conditions. Compared with coil or leaf spring sus...

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Supply Chain
05-Jun-2026

5G RedCap: Hitting the sweet spot of vehicle connectivity

5G RedCap (Reduced Capability), also known as 5G NR-Light, standardized by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in Release 17, is a streamlined version of 5G designed for devices that do not require the full complexity, power consumption, or cost of traditional enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) 5G modules. It basically sits between high-end 5G modules used for infotainment and autonomous driving and low-power IoT technologies like LTE-M (Long-Term Evolution for Machines) and Narrowband IoT (...

Gotion's GGTC 2026: The rise of multichemistry battery systems

The global transition to clean energy is undergoing a profound paradigm shift driven by raw material price volatility, domestic resource security concerns and localized geopolitical trade barriers. Historically, the EV battery landscape has been dominated by mainly high-energy nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) chemistries and low-cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) systems. However, as the limitations of lithium supply chains become increasingly apparent — characterized by highly volatile lithium ca...

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