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Olectra-BYD, the joint venture between Olectra Greentech and BYD Auto Industry Company, has announced deploying 40 units of its 12-metre eBuzz K9 electric buses in Hyderabad.

Delhi today got its first ever fully Automated Driving Test Centre (ADTC). Developed in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki India, the test centres will be maintained by the carmaker for three years.

Avan Motors already has the Xero + which was launched last year and comes with a price of Rs. 47,000 (ex-showroom).

Porsche is testing autonomous driving in the companys own workshop. This project involves Porsche working with start-up Kopernikus Automotive to install a test field on the companys premises in Ludwigsburg. Kopernikus Automotive specialises in technology for self-driven cars, and the aim of the joint project is to enable vehicles to drive from their parking space to the lifting platform and back again, fully autonomously. It is intended that mechanics will be able to manoeuvre the sports cars to the correct position in the workshop, quickly and automatically, using a tablet. The technology shall provide vehicle orientation and independently detect objects.

German high-end car giants BMW and Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler AG said on Thursday they would work together to develop automated driving and driver assistance systems, the latest cooperation for the historically fierce rivals. The two manufacturers have sealed a "long-term, strategic co-operation to make next-level technologies widely available" by around 2025, they said in a joint statement.

The new Zero SR/F streetfighter is a completely modern electric motorcycle and claims 110 bhp of power and is claimed to be the first fully "smart" motorcycle.

Recently published patent images suggest that BMW Motorrad may be working on hybrid boxer engines for motorcycles.

Life would have been so much easier there would be a Robocop along to assist us in our daily tasks. Well! That always had been an unreasonable childhood fantasy, however, one such thing now seems possible if automakers could pursuit the idea which Evan Kirstel shared in his tweet captioning it - "Well this is handy". And indeed it is, specially for an easy-going (read: laid-back) person like me who wouldn't mind a robot to fill his car's boot for him.