Automobile

The autonomous vehicle industry is moving rapidly from testing to commercial deployment, with leading self-driving car companies expanding robotaxi fleets, developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems and entering new international markets. This article outlines five of the most prominent autonomous vehicle companies operating commercial robotaxi services right now, including Waymo, Tesla, Baidu Apollo Go, WeRide…

A vehicle sold globally in 2026 must satisfy cybersecurity rules written in Geneva, Beijing, Brussels, and Washington. The four regimes share vocabulary but not legal text, and treating them as one compliance program is a common, costly assumption. This article maps where they align, where they diverge, and what to do about it. Figure 1….

Cars are becoming increasingly software-defined, connected and reliant on cloud services, APIs and over-the-air (OTA) updates. With that transformation comes a rapidly expanding cybersecurity challenge, and a highly significant regulatory response. At the centre of automotive cybersecurity regulation are UN Regulation No. 155 (UNECE R155) and UN Regulation No. 156 (UNECE R156). R155 establishes requirements…

On 11 September 2026, the notification obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) go live. A 24-hour early warning, a 72-hour notification, a final report to ENISA and the relevant national CSIRT within 14 days. Since the date landed, most of the automotive cybersecurity conversation has treated it as a new clock…

Automotive webinar sponsorship is a lead generation format in which a company partners with an industry publisher to host a branded webinar for a qualified automotive audience, receiving full attendee data, Q&A transcripts, and on-demand visibility in return. For companies selling into OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, it’s one of the most direct ways to…

Automotive IQ provides comprehensive content syndication packages to help you achieve your automotive lead generation goals. For more information, take a look at our Media Kit or get in touch with us at partner@automotive-iq.com for more information. But what is automotive content syndication? How does it work? This article will cover the content syndication packages…

Annex 5 Was Written for a Car. Your Fleet Isn’t One. Open UN R155’s threat catalog and you’ll find seven categories, sixty-nine attack vectors, and not a single line that distinguishes a passenger sedan from a forty-tonne artic or a city bus carrying eighty people. That’s not an oversight buried in the footnotes — it’s…

Automotive IQ’s upcoming automotive events bring together vehicle manufacturers, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, technology companies, engineering leaders and automotive decision-makers to examine some of the most important changes affecting the car industry. What automotive events is Automotive IQ hosting in 2026? The four upcoming Automotive IQ conferences in 2026 are: SDV & AV…

As automakers standardise on 800V architectures, 800V SiC thermal management has become one of the most pressing engineering challenges in electric vehicle design. Silicon Carbide (SiC) inverters deliver faster charging, higher efficiency, and greater power density than legacy silicon-based systems, but that density concentrates heat in ways traditional EV thermal management was never built to…

For well over a century, every car sold has had one thing in common: a physical, mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels. Steer-by-wire (SbW) removes it entirely. It’s one of the most significant shifts happening in chassis engineering today, not because it’s new (the first production attempt dates back to 2013),…