Ford Pro Offers Complimentary Services to Help Commercial Customers Improve Uptime
Ford Pro Intelligence is making it easier than ever for commercial customers to benefit from telematics to help boost their businesses’ productivity – whether they’re deploying gas-powered or electric vehicles – with powerful complimentary data services.
“No matter how big or small a commercial fleet may be – and whether it’s fully electric or not – vehicle data plays an important role in improving uptime and efficiency,” said Brent West, general manager, Ford Pro Intelligence. “Both Ford Pro E-Telematics and Ford Pro Telematics Essentials provide fleet managers with key information and abilities through an intuitive interface – at no additional charge.”
COP26 Ends With Glasgow Climate Pact – and We Still Need to Work Harder
COP26, the 26th meeting of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s Conference of Parties has ended with the successful negotiation of the Glasgow Climate Pact, which updates the landmark Paris Agreement with new climate goals.
The new Pact moves forward timelines for updating national goals for carbon reduction and for the first time explicitly calls for a “phase-down” of coal globally. pre-industrial levels.
Coal is responsible for around 40% of global CO2 emissions, making its elimination a top priority. Oil and gas, despite being responsible for the vast majority of non-coal CO2 emissions, were not mentioned in the Pact – though a number of countries and subnational entities formed the “Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance,” with a view towards keeping their reserves in the ground.
Read the article at Electrek.
Inspiration Launches as First Purpose-Built EV Solutions
Inspiration, the first one-stop EV solutions company to both finance electric vehicles and build, own and operate the charging infrastructure enabling the EV transition, announced its launch.
To offer this comprehensive solution to fleet operators and other industry participants, Inspiration secured an initial $200 million in capital commitment from ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VII.
“We founded Inspiration to streamline the complex process of deploying a commercial EV fleet at scale by offering a one-stop, integrated solution for any and all vehicle, energy, project development and finance challenges that may arise in the process,” said Josh Green, Founder & CEO of Inspiration.
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What’s New in Car Tech? Augmented Reality
Car makers are always looking to strike gold with the next major advancement in automotive technology.
Currently, autonomy is thought to be the next big thing. In fact, just about every auto maker is pumping unfathomable sums of money into the development of self-driving cars.
However, one often over-looked contender for the car industry’s next major tech development is augmented reality, or AR. While AR doesn’t quite have the potential to introduce a paradigm shift in the way that self-driving tech does, it’s a technology that could easily become widespread within the next five years.
Unfortunately, full autonomy (i.e., no need for a steering wheel) is still too novel to be introduced on a large scale in that time frame. AR, however, is right around the corner; let’s talk about why that’s so exciting!
Anderson Named UVeye’s VP for North American Sales
Jamie Anderson has been named vice president for North American sales at UVeye, a rapidly expanding supplier of high-speed vehicle-inspection systems for the auto industry.
Prior to joining UVeye, Anderson was vice president for dealer sales at KAR Global. He previously had served as a divisional sales director at BacklotCars and a portfolio sales manager at Cox Automotive.
“The extensive automotive dealership and fleet sales experience that Jamie Anderson brings to UVeye from Cox, BacklotCars and KAR Global will help further accelerate the rapid growth we’re experiencing in North America,” said Amir Hever, UVeye’s co-founder and CEO.
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