Today starts the Geneva Motor Show, celebrating its 87th edition. The public finally will be able to admire the Chinese supercar designed by a purely Italian team.

Indeed Giorgetto e Fabrizio Giugiaro and their Turin-based GFG Style design team took part to this ambitious project. The aerospace-inspired design is optimised for aerodynamic efficiency, with a striking modular three-cockpit design. The Techrules Ren features a lightweight chassis that has been designed and constructed to the highest standards. The performance-focused modular layout that allows the car to be configured with one, two or three polycarbonate canopies: one for track use by only the driver, two for the ‘Le Mans’ configuration with a single passenger, or three to accommodate the driver and two passengers.

Techrules Ren is the world’s first electric traction production supercar to feature the ground-breaking -developed Turbine-Recharging Electric Vehicle (TREV) system. The series hybrid powertrain technology delivers unprecedented levels of efficiency and performance, and an ultra-low environmental impact. This is an all-new range extender system that uses a turbine to drive a generator which charges the battery pack. This in turn, provides electricity to drive the traction motors. The TREV system can be run on both liquid and gaseous fuels. The TREV system still has the potential to deliver 2,000 km from 80-litres of fuel, depending on the vehicle it is used in.

The Ren is packed with new technologies that combine intelligent advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and advanced connectivity solutions to provide safety and convenience for customers. The sweeping upper instrument panel wraps around the driver’s cockpit and houses three separate monitoring screens that display the video feed from the rear-view cameras. The two side cameras deliver views onto the two outer screens equivalent to those from traditional side mirrors, eliminating blind spots.

With a future range of models in mind the Ren represents a platform that can be modulated to support supercars, SUVs, family sedans and even small city cars.

Production of Ren is likely to start in 2018, with orders starting at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show

The US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said that within a few months, the Government will formalize federal guidelines for the development and circulation on roads open to traffic to self- driving vehicles.
The guidelines will be defined by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (the federal agency for road safety), who will also verify the continuous technological innovations in this field in order to keep pace with the progress and update what legislated.
Foxx also proposed the allocation of $ 4 billion over 10 years in support of national governments and specialized companies to accelerate the adoption of autonomous driving technologies.

On Friday, March 18th, during the "The Future of Sustainable Mobility" day, it was inaugurated Bluetorino, Piedmont capital’s sustainable car-sharing.

Within a year the city will have 250 charging columns and 150 electric Bluecar, Bolloré’s city car designed by Pininfarina and featuring bylogix’s dashboard and body computer.

With an energy capacity of 30 kw/h, the Bluecar has a range of 250 km in urban environments. The service will be available 24/7 and will cover the entire city area with a widespread network of charging stations, which can also be used by private electric cars’ owners, in order to encourage the electric market production chain.

Perfectly in line with global targets for emissions reduction recalled by Paris Climate Conference (December 2015), Torino, formerly Italian car capital, returns as a sustainable city model.

It's called MobiGoIn (Mobility Goes International), and it’s a European Project gathering technology clusters operating in the mobility sector and aimed at creating new opportunities for SMEs wanting to innovate and internationalize.

This international platform brings together the Torino Wireless Foundation, leader of the initiative, and the European partners bwcon (Germany), Mov'eo (France) and Media Evolution (Sweden), so representing about 1,100 SMEs. The aim is to promote sustainable mobility projects, from the adoption of intelligent and cooperative transportation solutions, to the development of fleet management applications, to the implementation of solutions for the usage, management and integration of green vehicles, both in public and private transports, in urban and suburban contexts.

The Torino Wireless Foundation has already selected some projects, including "3DASHBOARD", an automotive digital dashboard with 3D elements implemented by bylogix in partnership with NoReal, a company specialized in multimedia and 3D industry. As reported by the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” (2/19/2016) this dashboard is "an infotainment tool to benefit of remote services. Among the considered services, there are: the update and reconfiguration of on-board units’ control SW without the need of further assistance; the indication of closer fuel stations, if needed; the suggestion of bars/restaurants on the path if the driver has been travelling for a long time; weather and traffic reports; navigation and so forth".

The prototype, already implemented on the Icona Vulcano and shown by bylogix at the NI Days 2016 and at the embedded world in Nuremberg, has catched the interest of carmakers and aims at representing a new generation of customizable human-machine interfaces, enabling the services multiplication.

Bosch launches "Drive Clever", a clever accelerator able to alert the driver in case of danger and help him/her to reduce gas consumption.

The device can report potential dangers through a vibration on the driver’s right foot, thanks to the integration with the navigation system, the front camera and other driving aids.

Moreover, the system will indicate to the driver when lighten the load for obtaining lower fuel consumption and lower emissions, allowing a reduction up to 7%.

Finally, the system can operate a back pressure on the pedal even if the driver exceeds the speed limit.

Bosch’s innovation is designed for connected cars that constantly analyze the environment around them and for being always one step ahead the driver and ensuring greater safety on the roads.