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BMW has at least two significant new SUVs in the works: a production rendition of the Neue Klasse X all-electric concept and a new generation of the iconic X5. But for the 2025 model year, we see mostly small changes to BMW SUVs, with the notable exception of a new X3, which showcases new designs and features from the German automaker. Almost every BMW receives some update this year, from the small X1 to the range-topping XM.

2025 BMW X3: What’s New

BMW’s popular compact luxury SUV is fully redesigned for 2025. The new BMW X3 (which goes by chassis code G45) shows off an evolved design language and is slightly longer, wider, and lower than its predecessor. Inside, big screens and colorful ambient light panels break up the somewhat minimalistic cabin. The automaker’s latest driver assist features, including hands-free driving technology, are available. Under the hood, the X3 continues to offer turbocharged I-4 and I-6 engine options, albeit now with increased hybridization that can allow for some all-electric driving in certain situations. AWD is now standard on all X3 models.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/2025-bmw-suv-lineup-updates-changes/

Woke up sweating after a dream.

Checked Nividia SP and realised if bought Nividia instead of see the 1st year all those years ago would be sitting on a fortune & a multi millionaire now.

Even £30k would be £10m + now instead of £30k in see 😤

Lucky I wasn’t a fool and bought Tesla either as only £9m for your £30k.

Excluding share splits on both aswell as that would really depress me if done the maths I bet…

Let’s hope they get back on track

DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is fixing its slowing U.S. sales at the right pace after fumbling a marketing plan earlier this year, CEO Carlos Tavares told reporters Monday.

Tavares, who last week pushed out the company’s chief financial officer and the chief operating officers for both North America and Europe in a management restructuring, told reporters at the Paris Motor Show that he is responsible for the bad things that have happened at the company, but also for the good.

“If I don’t want that responsibility I should do something else,” said Tavares, who reiterated that he plans to retire when his contract expires in 2026. The board last month confirmed that it’s searching for a successor.

Stellantis, formed from the 2021 merger of France’s PSA Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, has struggled this year in both Europe and the U.S.

In the European Union, it is fighting cuts in government electric vehicle subsidies and Chinese competitors as it tries to sell more EVs to reach a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030. The EU has planned tariffs on imported Chinese EVs.

Sales have been down most of the year in the U.S., long the company’s cash cow. In the second quarter, the company came up with a new marketing plan with incentives to counter high sticker prices. But it didn’t attract enough buyers. Sales fell 20%, and they’re down over 17% for the first nine months of the year. The rest of the auto industry saw sales increase 1% from January through September.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-krisher-4111a029_stellantis-ceo-says-company-is-on-pace-to-activity-7251664147346550785-Bx4K?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Add to that

GM 380,000 PA

BMW 2,000,000 PA From what Colin said

BMW's global vehicle sales for the first six months of 2024 have been published by hashtag#BMWBlog. As the analysis on the left of the picture shows, by using adoption of the curved display for each model type as a proxy for hashtag#driver hashtag#monitoring hashtag#system fitment, we can approximate hashtag#DMS units at BMW Group. For the 2025 model year, only the 8-Series, hashtag#X4 and hashtag#Z4 are judged to not feature the curved display, with the M5 having been withdrawn. The exact start of production date for each model upgraded to the curved display for the 2025 model year is unknown, but BMW looks to be on course to hit 500,000 vehicles a quarter with DMS during this calendar year, and may reach that milestone as early as the July-September (current) quarter.

Ford tbc

SOON ADDS UP :)

Dont get too excited. They use Guardian for long haul and these are for the short haul ones. But any trucks used on long haul would probably use both?

mainfreight rolls out 600+ cameras in australian fleet

mainfreight australia is powering up their driver safety efforts with the installation of nearly 600 mitac units from autosense in their rigid, local fleet vehicles.

with around 180 guardian by seeing machines cameras already installed in their line haul (interstate) trucks, mainfreight australia national support manager ashley taylor says adding mitac to their ****nal is an obvious next step for their local fleet.

“fatigue events have dropped significantly since guardian has been installed and the cameras have also helped with education and changing driver behaviours,” ashley says. “we believe the same positive results will be seen with mitac once the three-month install is complete and the cameras are all up and recording.”

since adopting guardian technology in 2019, mainfreight au has reported a 96 percent[1] reduction in recorded fatigue events.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/autosense-nz_mainfreight-rolls-out-600-cameras-in-australian-activity-7251418658877407232-_n37?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

The refreshed 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban don’t skimp on the tech details, packing in tons of cutting-edge features to enhance the convenience and comfort for both drivers and passengers. High on the list of features is the GM Super Cruise system, offered as the automaker’s semi-autonomous driver assist and allowing drivers to remove their hands from the steering wheel during extended highway stints. Now, GM Authority has exclusively learned when the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban will be available with Super Cruise.

According to GM Authority sources, the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban will be available with Super Cruise in February of the 2025 calendar year.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/10/heres-when-2025-chevy-tahoe-suburban-will-be-available-with-super-cruise/amp/

Seeing

Let’s see what the next 2 kpis show. Then see if any mass models look a possibility.

Iam hoping 600k then 750k on the 2nd one and by 3rd or 4th kpis it’s showing 1m+

Be interesting if Seye starts announcing numbers or is happy to keep hiding the figures?

Through September 2024, BMW delivered 266,151 cars that didn’t have a combustion engine. It’s a massive increase of 22.6% compared to the first nine months of last year. We’re learning the iX1 and i4 did the heavy lifting but let’s keep in mind the company has never had such a diverse EV lineup. There’s now a long-wheelbase iX1 for China, along with a first-ever iX2. Of course, we shouldn’t omit the i5 in both sedan and wagon flavors.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/massimo-galli_bmw-electric-car-sales-are-way-up-in-2024-activity-7250557530634936320-j7VE?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Rivian clues?

As evidenced by the bright yellow warning stickers that state the test vehicle is fitted with U.S. break signals, this R1T is clearly a sample coming from Rivian’s operations in America. However, Rivian’s appearance in Austria may not be entirely coincidental, even if a European expansion isn’t exactly right around the corner.

Noted by the Austrian Reddit user that posted the image, “The area around Stuttgart is full of car manufacturers, automotive suppliers, and engineering companies. It’s not unusual to see exotic car mules/prototypes that don’t get sold in Germany/EU.” Further, “The plate being registered in Graz heavily implies that there is a connection to Magna Steyr. They do automotive engineering services but also produce cars for third parties…”

Magna was not immediately available for comment to Teslarati regarding its plans with Rivian. The Canadian car parts supplier is well known in the automotive sector for being a pivotal supplier to Ford and General Motors and as a vehicle manufacturer for Mercedes, Fisker, and other European brands.

For those curious why Rivian could be looking to work with European suppliers, even if they don’t currently plan to expand to Europe imminently, a couple of factors could be attracting the Illinois-based manufacturer. By working with suppliers like Magna, Rivian could free up its production capabilities to produce more units, even if it comes at the expense of per-unit profit. Second, Rivian could be searching for a supplier that could help lower its production costs as it works to achieve profitability by the end of 2025.

https://www.teslarati.com/rivian-r1t-spotted-europe/amp/

AUTOFrom Hands-Free to Eyes-Free: GM’s Vision for the Next Generation of Driving

https://www.globalbrandsmagazine.com/gms-vision-next-generation-of-driving/

It’s alright to be fashionably late, but you better arrive put together or with a heck of a story. In the case of Stellantis’ Hands-Free Active Driver Assist system, it’s neither.

Quietly launched in 2023 with no fanfare on certain Jeep Grand Cherokee models, and in February on the refreshed 2025 Ram 1500, the system is now in the hands of consumers. After two weeks and more than 1,700 miles of testing, I’m here to report Hands-Free Active Driver Assist takes third place among the domestic hands-free systems, even though it arrives two years after Ford’s BlueCruise and seven years after GM’s Super Cruise. This is despite splitting the difference in hardware capability between those other two systems.

Stellantis Hands-Free Active Driver Assist

https://carinsidernews.com/jeep-and-rams-hands-free-active-driver-assist-system-debuts-late-and-behind-the-leaders/amp/

380,000 GM Vehicles To Be Equipped With Super Cruise In 2024

GM Senior Vice President of Software and Services Engineering Dave Richardson shared some interesting statistics and information about the Super Cruise hands-free driving system during the recent GM Investor Day presentation. He announced that 380,000 GM vehicles will be equipped with Super Cruise by the end of 2024, and he expects that number to double in 2025 as the technology becomes more widely available.

Richardson also noted that customers have driven more than 280,000,000 miles with Super Cruise engaged since the technology was first made available in 2017. The first car available with Super Cruise as an option was the 2018 Cadillac CT6, the very first production car available to the public with a true hands-free driving system.

Super Cruise was exclusive to the CT6 for a few years, but became available on the CT4, CT5, and Escalade starting with the 2021 model year. The 2022 model year saw the technology expand beyond the Cadillac brand, becoming available on the Chevy Bolt EUV, Chevy Silverado 1500, GMC Sierra 1500, and GMC Hummer EV. Buick finally joined the club when the all-new 2025 Enclave came out with optional Super Cruise.

Now that all four North American GM retail brands have at least one model available with Super Cruise, including full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe/Suburban and GMC Yukon and midsize crossovers like the Chevy Traverse and GMC Acadia, it seems realistic that the number of vehicles on the road with the hands-free tech could double in 2025.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/10/380000-gm-vehicles-to-be-equipped-with-super-cruise-in-2024/amp/

General Motors not only has faith in its goals for electric vehicles, it also has a strategy for competing in the lower end of the market for new vehicles that have largely been abandoned by its traditional rivals from Detroit.

Chairman and CEO Mary Barra predicts during the company’s Investors’ Day program at the GM manufacturing complex in Spring Hill, TN, that the company’s EV business will be profitable in the fourth quarter. “EV profitability is arriving much faster than people thought,” she says

GM expects to produce about 200,000 BEVs including the Cadillac Vistiq, along with eight new or redesigned SUVs with traditional internal-combustion engines in North America in the quarter.

President Mark Reuss says the key to GM’s future is a renewed emphasis on simplicity. “As you reduce complexity of building a vehicle, you reduce the complexity of buying vehicles,” says Reuss. This emphasis on simplicity is helping GM reduce its fixed costs by $2 billion and enable it to adjust to rising labor costs brought on by the contract signed last year with the UAW.

https://www.wardsauto.com/general-motors/general-motors-staying-the-course-on-electric-vehicles

BMW delivers over 100,000 electric cars in Q3

The BMW Group increased its deliveries of all-electric vehicles in the third quarter by 10.1 per cent compared to the same quarter last year. Across all BMW brands, the manufacturer delivered a total of 103,440 electric vehicles.

It is the second consecutive quarter in which the BMW Group has achieved six-digit BEV deliveries. The Munich-based company already delivered 107,933 all-electric vehicles in Q2/2024, slightly more than from the beginning of July to the end of September. However, after record figures at the end of 2023 and in Q2/2024, the 103,440 BEVs still represent the third-best quarterly result in terms of electric deliveries for the BMW Group.

https://www.electrive.com/2024/10/10/bmw-delivers-over-100000-electric-cars-in-q3/

Iulian Dnistran

By: Iulian Dnistran

BMW Group, which includes BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce, saw healthy sales increases for its all-electric vehicles in the third quarter despite dipping 13% year-over-year overall.

Globally, BMW Group sold 103,440 all-electric vehicles in Q3, a 10.1% increase from the same period last year. From January to September, the spike was even bigger, with a total of 294,054 EVs sold–19.1% more than last year.

The BMW brand sold a total of 266,151 EVs year-to-date, a 22.6% increase compared to the January-September of last year, with the iX1 and i4 chugging along nicely. However, at a brand level, including hybrid and internal combustion models, sales went down 2.3% because of an ongoing global recall and stop-sale caused by a faulty Integrated Braking System and weak demand in China.

https://insideevs.com/news/736804/bmw-ev-sales-q3-2024/

Should be a big seller and in 90% of models

https://tork.buzz/carnews/2025-Ford-Expedition-BlueCruise-for-Hands-Free-Driving-20241010-0002.html

Decent interview that.

Seeing Machines Ltd (AIM:SEE, OTC:SEEMF) CEO Paul McGlone sits down with Proactive’s Tylah Tully to discuss the company’s progress, including the Automotive business, future plans and market trends.

The company has secured more than US$390 million in awarded OEM programmes and most revenue will be realised by 2028. With more than 2.2 million cars using its Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), Seeing Machines is focused on increasing production and winning new business, despite challenges in the automotive industry, including delays in OEM RFQs due to the revised Euro NCAP 2026 safety regulations and EV slowdowns.

In regard to its partnership with Magna, the company confirmed its mirror solution is in production and remains the only solution on the market. Seeing Machines continues to pursue new opportunities despite delays and is also active in the Japanese market, preparing for future business with potential customers.

In the Aftermarket sector, the company is expanding with the Guardian Generation 3 system now approved for use in Europe and is preparations are being made for its US launch.

Seeing Machines remains committed to its mission of enhancing road safety and anticipates releasing its FY 2024 results in October.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1058024/seeing-machines-updates-on-automotive-and-aftermarket-progress-1058024.html

Its 50/50 according to Colin

Rivian has announced the use of an interior camera for the 2025 #R1T and #R1S models, integrated inside the rear-view mirror, for the purposes of driver monitoring #DMS. Only Gentex Corporation and Magna International have the capability to do this, so the supplier will be one of those two companies. Visual cues suggest Magna, but there isn't sufficient evidence to be certain

Https://transporttalk.co.nz/news/dr-angus-mckerral-the-seeing-machines-research-scientist-with-the-human-touch

Guardian by Seeing Machines is unique from other driver monitoring systems in that the technology company has its own in-house research team of eight PhD scientists who design and write research projects and papers that shape product development and ensure it is grounded in robust science.

“The human factors team are all people from research backgrounds and a mix of disciplines from psychology and neuroscience to engineering and computer science.

“Human factors are essentially about interaction with the machine. We have input on different aspects of the design. This can be from algorithm development to a specific level, like how bright an LED should be – and right up to the system level, where we look more holistically at how a person will respond to a monitoring system that can do X-Y-Z.

“We have a fleet of vehicles for testing, and when new products are being piloted, we get inside them and get involved with prototyping and fitting equipment to really appreciate the user experience.”

Whether McKerral is considering an algorithm to detect drowsiness or distraction or testing how a new system alerts drivers, he’s motivated to make a meaningful contribution to road safety—with the end goal of saving lives.

https://transporttalk.co.nz/news/dr-angus-mckerral-the-seeing-machines-research-scientist-with-the-human-touch