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Increasingly accessible, sustainably appealing: India’s electric vehicle market boom
The India Electric Vehicle (EV) market is seeing record sales: passenger EVs recorded 75,000 sales in 2023, twice the volume sold last year. It’s also one of the fastest-growing EV markets in the world, with millions of EV owners. What’s driving this shift? There’s India’s pledge to reduce carbon emission intensity by 33-35% by 2030…
INDUSTRY NEWS
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PAUSE: The best of Autodesk Automotive, 2023
Our PAUSE series aims to share Design Studio Blog posts you may have missed. It’s a chance for you to pause on a particular subject or series and take it in. In this PAUSE post, we’ve looked back on a year of industry stories, product news, and design inspiration and chosen our top 5 stories…
PRODUCT NEWS
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Student shows, industry shifts, VR: A Conversation with Car Design News, part 2
Earlier this spring, Ananda Arasu and I spent some time with James McLachlan, Editor for Car Design News (CDN). In Part 1 of that conversation, we discuss sustainability, customer demand, the CDN Review Book, and more. In Part 2, we’re shifting from legacy designers to new grads, a look at the current job market, and…
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Hands-on, person-to-person: AIF 2023 exhibition
The 2024 Automotive Innovation Forum in Frankfurt, Germany gave us more chances to explore Autodesk solutions, customer innovations, and partner insights. Thanks to the incredibly hard work of the technical sales, marketing and product teams who contributed to the amazing expo. We had: Exhibition overview Discover Alias & Meet the Experts Alias User Experience, future…
Industrial Design
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AIF 2023 at a glance — and on demand
The 2023 AIF in Frankfurt, Germany was an opportunity for the automotive design and manufacturing community to come together over two full days. Attendees from around the world heard from leading OEMs, suppliers, start-ups and technology partners, and had the opportunity to network with experts in design, manufacturing and engineering. We’d like to thank everyone…
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Car Design News “Car Design Dialogues 2022: Americas virtual event
Car Design News hosted their first-ever Virtual Car Design Dialogues event last year in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. The event was very well attended, and there were a host of companies represented. While the world is slowly starting to open up, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is still making travel to automotive…
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A Society 5.0 & vehicle-to-everything world
When I started research on the concept of V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) about three years ago, I came across the Community Analysis Bureau of Los Angeles. I wanted to find the defining moment for the start of smart cities in North America—who was the first to begin using data to improve the day-to-day lives of their occupants.…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
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Autodesk at the NVIDIA GTC
The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, is NVIDIA’s flagship conference. As a technology partner, Autodesk works very closely with NVIDIA, among other collaborations on supporting and testing their latest hardware with Autodesk VRED, 3D visualization, and virtual prototyping software for automotive designers. This year, Autodesk is featured prominently in several industry tracks, including: Graphics,…
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Car Design Dialogues: EMEA virtual event
On the heels of the incredibly successful Car Design News Car Design Dialogues event held for North America in December, CDN is hosting another virtual event for its customers in Europe March 17th and 18. Car Design News has been well known for their Designer Night Events around the major auto shows. Held around the…
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The Call of the future: Project Arrow and the winning team
What does the APMA do in response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s call to action for a net-zero emission economy by 2050? Engage young, fresh, and motivated minds. Cue Project Arrow. As Canada’s national association for OEM producers, the APMA has led several innovative and collaborative projects within Canada’s automotive industry since 2014. But…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
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Ford’s realtime design review: A conversation with the team behind the scenes
Back in May, when the world was deep in the grips of the Covid crisis, Car Design News and Ford shared a look into their virtual design review process, which Lukas Faith reviewed in June on the Design Studio Blog. Since then, we have been working with the Ford team behind the scenes, to gain…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
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Varjo, KIA, NVIDIA and Autodesk are merging digital and physical worlds for automotive design
We’re excited to announce the outcome of our collaboration with Varjo, Kia, Nvidia and Autodesk – the integration of Autodesk VRED and the VARJO XR-1 Developer Edition. This is a first step towards merging the best of the virtual and the real world by combining VRED’s rendering prowess with Varjo’s high-resolution XR technology. “You’d think…
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