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Otomotif China Semakin Menggila…Sampai di Mana Kita?
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Halo bro…barusan baca berita di kompas otomotif tentang ambisi pabrikan mobil china menguasai dunia otomotif sedikit demi sedikit..monggo dibaca dulu buat pengetahuan… Beijing, KompasOtomotif – Setelah berhasil membeli Volvo Car Croporation dari Ford, raksasa otomotif dari China, Geely Holding Group juga berkeinginan mencaplok Fuj Heavy Industries Limited, produsen Subaru. Menurut dua sumber internal perusahaan, keinginan tersebut bertujuan memperkuat basis teknologi otomotif Geely yang tercetus akhir tahun lalu (2011). Volvo  dikonsentrasikan untuk merek premium, sedangkan Geely bermain di  segmen bawah pasar domestik. Berarti, di antara kedua merek terdapatjurang pemisah yang curam. “Kendengarannya strategi yang bagus. Fuji Heavy bisa mengisi kekosongan antara Geely dan Volvo dengan produk-produk baru,” komentar Yale Zhang, Kepala Peneliti dari Automotive Foresight, di Shanghai. Dijelaskan, Geely telah melayangkan tawaran membeli 20 persen saham Subaru m

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Good SM policy
Managing Your Web Presence: Applied Content Creation, Curation, and Optimization

So, I went through a chunk of SM policies. Most of them were really prescriptive. But then I came across Volvo’s “Social Media Guidelines.” Why I like this one is because they are expecting their employees to behave as reasonable adults. The guidelines read easily (not in legalese), and they also read like they are in place as much to protect the employee and customer as they are the company. These guidelines basically say to not do things that the company could be viewed as liable for, don’t share privileged information, and do be transparent and honest. Please. (It’s the “please” that sold me. I heart Volvo.)

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Global Corporate Challenge
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On the 24th May 2012 I, plus six others, entered the Global Corporate Challenge through work. The Global Corporate Challenge is about different companies all around the world competing in a race around the world based on your step count. By registering, they send you a starter pack which consists of a stress ball in he guise of a globe, a baseball cap, a pair of trainer socks which, considering they are free, aren’t bad, and two pedometers, all packaged up in a nice backpack. Once we were registered, we were all given access to an online profile. As I was the team captain, it was my job to sort out a team name and a team photo. Here’s what we came up with… During setting up our profiles, we’d all noticed that the default target was 10,000 steps. Yes, 10,000 steps!!!! “No way” we all thought. That’s a lot of steps to do. As a guide, they say the average office worker clocks up 3,000. So, the next task was work out where we could gain our extra steps.

Dropping Science: Driverless “Road Trains”
Beyond the Bunker
Recipes for Summer Fun: Cheap Convertibles
StudentWheels

In the previous (read, first) installation of our “Recipes for Summer Fun” series, we gave a big thumbs-up to small, rugged, fun-to-drive SUVs. If you’ve always had a crush on the Jeep Wrangler or Chevy Tracker, look no further.  Today, we’re going to look at another way to have fun behind the wheel this warm season. Specifically, we’re going to talk about some cheap and cheery convertibles. Since my articles are all about cars in the sub-five grand price range (if you go to Yale or Harvard, check out Elias’s writing), the droptops we’ll be discussing today will be necessarily old and of dubious quality — even when new. Of the cars in question, three are of European extraction, three are American, and one hails from the Land of the Rising Sun. I’ll square this with you first off: I don’t actually like convertibles. I dislike the roar of the wind, and prefer to be able to carry on a conversation on the road. But I also recogniz

Volvo S80 DRIVe คิดต่างยัดเครื่องจิ๋วอันทรงพลัง
StreetUse
Midweek news digest: saving Saab, SARTRE, new battery tech and assorted EV snippets
Driving to the Future
CNH+Fiat Industrial: 1+1= 2 at best
Gerry Spahn
Volvo L220 Overhaul
Walker Plant News
Volvo’s 2013 V40 Includes Outer Airbags
The Twist
Will Sweden Go From Best in Class to Below Average?
Northernwille’s Blog
Cars Driving Themselves
EnviroChatter

The future is coming, and it is awesome…. RULE Combine this with the carpooling and a grid connected, electrified road system(the highways at least) and we’d really be onto something.

The Engine Room (Volvo of course!)
Football: Wherever it may be

Saturday 19th May 2012 ko 16.00 Division 1 Södra SKÖVDE AIK 2 (L Johansson 3 8) L Johansson sent off 74 (2nd Booking) QVIDING 1 (Mukiibi 90) Att 381 Entry 60sek +20sek transfer Programme FREE With a leisurely start to the day in Stockholm, it was a simple enough task to collect our hire car from close to the soon-to-be closing Råsunda stadium and head around 250 miles south-west to the town of Skövde, in Västra Götaland. Unusually the town is built on a grid system, a reflection on the almost total destruction of the settlement by fire in 1759. St Helena was apparently from here. Nowadays the area is best known for the production of Volvo engines, and two units of the Swedish army. By the way the two sides are pronounced Shurv-der, and Kur-vee-ding. The Södermalms Idrottsplats reflects the club’s status as a division 1 club. The multisport element is still in evidence, there’s a running track after all, but the Idrottshallen (Sports Hall) is over the road, with the Ice Rink

Autonomous Automobiles
Bibliophile's Base

Original Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18248841 Summary: A convoy of automobiles in Spain has traveled approximately 200km, by itself.  A lead vehicle was driven by a professional driver with three cars and a truck that followed it.  The test was carried out as part of a project called SARTE-Safe Road Trains for the Environment.  Each vehicle in the convoy had special equipment outfitted on it, which allowed it to monitor the lead vehicle, and the other vehicles around it.  Using wireless communication, the vehicles traveled at approximately 52 mph while only 19ft apart from each other.  European companies have been working on this since 2009 and the vehicles have covered a total of 6,200 miles. Analysis: I have heard about this type of technology for a while, I recall watching a program that discussed technology such as this and its applications.  If this could be implemented on a global scale, or even a country wide scale it would be great.  From what the program was sa

Volvo’s self-drive ‘convoy’ hits the Spanish motorway
El Crack Inglés Blog

Volvo’s self-drive ‘convoy’ hits the Spanish motorway. A convoy of self-driven cars has completed a 200km (125-mile) journey on a Spanish motorway, in the first public test of such vehicles.

Road Train Test
Random Walks

Back in January of last year, I posted a note here about some work being done by Volvo to develop the technology for “road trains”.  Using a variety of technologies, including cameras, radar, and laser tracking systems, along with wireless networking, the idea is that a group of specially equipped vehicles can travel together as an ensemble.  One “lead” vehicle, with a skilled driver, will lead the way, and the other will follow along using automated controls.  The motivation is that a road train system could reduce fuel consumption, increase safety, and possibly even relieve congestion, by allowing cars to travel safely in closer proximity.   The work is part of a European Union project, SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment). A recent article at the Register (a UK-based technology news site) reports that the first tests of the system have now taken place on public roads: 200 km [~ 125 miles] of Spanish motorways. Three cars have successfully driven them

Volvo SARTRE road train premiere on public roads
IBport

For the first time ever a road train comprising a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60 and a Volvo S60 plus one truck automatically driving in convoy behind a lead vehicle has operated on a public motorway among other road users. The historic test in Spain was highly successful.

Self-driving cars unveiled in Spain
KFWB NEWS TALK 980
A Garbage Truck that helps the Environment too!!
MAULDIN MEDIA GROUP

Happy Tuesday Everyone. To start this week off, we went deep within our vault of videos! We pulled out our video for the “Volvo Refuse Truck”. We were presented this footage by The Newsmarket and starting piecing together the interview and visuals! We kind of thought this was an interesting idea (a video on a garbage truck, don’t see many of those do you?) so we kept the educational value, while spicing it up with our own flavor of effects. If you want to see a Garbage Truck that also helps the environment, you gotta check this video out! Have a great Tuesday everyone! Thanks for stopping by:) More information on the video is posted below. The Volvo Group is now introducing the fourth-generation hybrid solution of buses, trucks and construction equipment. Volvo has been testing various types of hybrid solutions since the 1980s and unveiled the first commercially viable hybrid solution for heavy vehicles in March 2006. As a result of production volume, Volvo Group has

Car p0rn (2), the toys for girls & boys
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