The Brake Report

The Brake Report

The BRAKE Report is an online media platform dedicated to the automotive and commercial vehicle brake segments. Our mission is to provide the global brake community with the latest news & headlines from around the industry.

Brembo Explains NASCAR Brakes

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FACTS & FIGURES OF BREMBO BRAKES FOR NASCAR CARS All NASCAR Cup Series enthusiasts have the number of their favorite driver inscribed on their hearts: some love 48 (Jimmie Johnson), some go crazy for…

Busy CES for Mobileye

Mobileye has begun testing its AV in New York City

Mobileye — the Israeli startup Intel acquired two years ago in a deal worth $15.3 billion — continues to make inroads in the $54.23 billion driverless car market. Following a press briefing at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, it announced that France-based auto technology…

Toyota Guardian ADAS Tech Aims to Amplify Human Control

Toyota Guardian

A vivid re-enactment of a three-car collision on a California highway opened the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The presentation demonstrated how development of the Toyota Guardian automated safety system could help prevent this kind of incident. Nobody…

LiDAR-maker Innoviz, HARMAN Form Partnership

Innoviz

ROSH HA’AYIN, Israel and STAMFORD, Conn., Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Innoviz Technologies and HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, announced today a newfound strategic partnership to make Innoviz’s high-performing, solid-state and mass-producible…

BMW i Motorsport Fine-Tunes Brake-by-Wire

BMW i Motorsport

From greencarcongress: The BMW iFE.18, with which the BMW i Andretti Motorsport team won the opening round of this season’s ABB FIA Formula E Championship, consists of many features developed internally at BMW, as well as the standard parts stipulated…

Brake Stocks Tank in Q4

This quarter in brake stocks

The fourth quarter of 2018 was very, very bad for brake stocks. The biggest loser was Veoneer, an automated-driving start-up. The company’s stock lost more than half its value, shaving more than $2 billion of the company’s market cap. Many…

New Top Management at Meneta Group

A Meneta press release: After 30 years at Meneta, Johnny Haakonsson resigns as Group CEO and hands over the management and development of Meneta’s companies to Kim Oestergaard. At the age of 70, Johnny Haakonsson will step down on December 31, 2018.…