CES 2023 Highlights: Google shows up as an automotive company, LG displays its new OLED Technologies

Icoma arrived at CES 2023 to showcase its Tatamal electric bike. The bike is made to address urban mobility issues while reducing the requirement for parking. Riders may conveniently store the bike beneath their desk thanks to its transformable design. The 110 lb electric bike has a 31-mile range when completely charged and a top speed of 25 mph. The Icoma Tatamal electric motorcycle has a 600W motor with a 2000W maximum output. It can be used as a portable power supply to charge personal electronics and can be fully charged in three hours. Icoma was presented with the CES 2023 Innovation Award.

The MAVI OnMyWay brings convenient shopping options straight to the dashboard of customer vehicles. In addition to pickup and curbside options, the in-vehicle solution will allow passengers in any Connected Car to make payments, by connecting the car's interface and data to MAVI's Mobile Retail Network. The options consider inventory in real-time to ensure availability as well as the driver's location, route, destination, order and payment preferences, and loyalty memberships.

BurgerFi International Inc., owner of leading fast-casual brand BurgerFi, and the casual dining pizza brand Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza & Wings, and MAVI.io will showcase the new OnMyWay Mobile Retail Network with demos of the first in-vehicle restaurant partnership with BurgerFi at CES 2023. 

A Volkswagen ID.7 electric sedan is displayed during CES 2023 on January 5. (Image: Reuters)

BlackBerry announced that BlackBerry IVY, a cloud-connected automotive AI platform co-developed by BlackBerry and Amazon Web Services (AWS), is now pre-integrated on three commercially-available digital cockpit platforms from leading Tier 1 automotive suppliers Bosch and PATEO, designed to enable automakers to rapidly deploy innovative third-party applications. The BlackBerry IVY solution will be generally available in May 2023.

Expected to be on roads by 2026, A5 from ASKA is the world’s first four-seat electric vehicle that can travel by road and up to 400 kilometres by air. (Image: ASKA)

LG displays its new OLED Technologies

Aeolus Robotics unveils a dual-armed robot designed to perform tasks like delivery, security and take care of the elderly. 

Google showed up as an automotive company. At CES 2023, Google shared that it's working with Spotify to integrate the Connect streaming tool into the Android UI. It also teased a preview of an audio handoff feature that would suggest different devices to move your music.