Press & Media
News, announcements and coverage of EVIE Autonomous — from the acquisition of Westfield Pods and our autonomous technology partnerships to the trials and projects our vehicles have taken part in.
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Racing ahead! UK sells driverless pods to South Korea in £30 million project
A UK-Korea agreement on joint automotive collaboration paves the way for a £30 million project supplying autonomous electric pods to the North Gyeongsang regional government. It is one of the first commercial export orders for the vehicles anywhere in the world.
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EVIE Selects Cavonix to provide Autonomous Technology for Electric Pods
Cavonix will provide the underlying technologies that let EVIE's electric pods self-drive and self-operate. Its “Lift & Shift” autonomous platform has already been deployed on tractors, airport buses, transport pods and off-road vehicles.
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EVIE Autonomous Acquires Westfield Pods
The assets of Westfield Autonomous Vehicles have been acquired by the Aim Technologies Group and will now be developed under a new company, EVIE Autonomous. Aim had supplied Westfield's electronic control systems since the Pod project first moved into autonomy.
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Sports car manufacturer unveils radical new concept
Westfield, the Black Country sports car manufacturer, has launched what it calls the UK's first 100% British-designed and manufactured low-volume autonomous vehicle. The Kingswinford firm has spent two years reshaping a range it has built since 1982.
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Lake District looks to the future with ‘driverless’ vehicles
A driverless pod comes to Brockhole on Windermere for public feedback, as the Lake District becomes the first National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site to study self-driving vehicles as a sustainable way to travel.
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What happens when you put your mum in a driverless car?
Sky News' Joe Tidy takes his mother Karen — by her own account a reluctant user of technology — for a ride in a GATEway shuttle pod. It closes two years of an £8m government-backed study into public attitudes to autonomous vehicles.
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Pods
Lord Sugar arrives at Here East in a driverless POD rather than his usual limo, and sets the candidates the task of designing, branding and pitching an electric driverless pod of their own. Episode 7 of 14.
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Helen Sharman OBE in the Westfield POD
First British astronaut and first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991, Helen Sharman OBE took a ride in the POD recently.
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