Autoline Daily: Top Industry News

Ford Tries to Calm Dealer Fears; Hatchbacks Making a Comeback; Mid-Range Model 3 Orders Open

GM Pickups First of Many IBC Contracts for ZF

By 2020, at least eight vehicle platforms with multiple customers will be using ZF’s Integrated Brake Control, an electro-hydraulic system that replaces the vacuum booster and pump while integrating electronic stability control in a single module.

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Volvo Partnership Aims for AI-Capable Computer

The new agreement deepens the existing partnership between Volvo Cars and NVIDIA, who last year began development of advanced systems and software for self-driving cars.

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Renault Expands Chinese JV Production Plans

The JV has “a local management team in place and (light-commercial-vehicle) product plans to deliver further growth with seven LCVs for China, including three electric LCV models, starting in early 2019,” Renault Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn says.

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If You Know Code, Mercedes-Benz Is Hiring

A group in Seattle, which expects to have a staff of 150 employees by 2019, is playing a leading role in the development of back-end software while a complementary unit newly installed in Berlin will handle front-end work.

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