An international consortium backed by the Singapore government Thursday launched ten research projects to develop technology for"next-generation"vehicles.
The Capabilities forAutomotive Research11-member consortium, which includes industry heavyweights such as German smart phone chipmaker Infineon, will work on areas such as anti-collision steering systems and wireless charging of electronic cars.
"The automotive sector today faces many challenges and therefore presents many opportunities,"said Lim Chuan Poh, the chairman of state-backed Agency for Science,Technologyand Research.
"The car of the future has to be increasingly intelligent and connected,"he said, adding the consortium's work aims to"solve these increasingly complex and multi-disciplinary problems as well as to testbed some of these solutions."
Toyota Tsusho, part of Japanese auto giant Toyota, is also a member of the group and will be providing technical expertise on installing batteries that can be wireless charged onto a golf buggy-shaped car.
"The basic technology comes from A*STAR (Agence for Science, Technology and Research) but we support this car and how to use such a wireless battery"on it, said Yasuhiro Kakihara, the president of Toyota Tsusho Singapore.
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