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Volkswagen Group launches standalone mobility services company MOIA; initial focus on ride-hailing

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Alongside traditional automobile businesses, innovative, digitally networked mobility services promise a high growth dynamic. The Volkswagen Group’s new company, which will be headquartered in Berlin, will begin operating with a team of around 50, with this number growing fast up to the end of 2017. —Ole Harms, CEO of MOIA.

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Volkswagen Group and ride-hailing provider Gett to expand on-demand mobility solutions & activities in Europe

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Chairman of the Board of Management Matthias Müller stressed the importance of the new strategic partnership, stating that ride hailing will be at the center of the Group’s new mobility on-demand business, which the company is building up as the second pillar alongside the classic automobile business. —Ole Harms.

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BMW Brilliance Automotive opens battery factory in Shenyang; 3rd battery factory in BMW Group production network

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First, in a highly-automated process, supplied lithium-ion cells, which are about the size of a paperback book, are checked and then combined into a larger unit, the battery module. The battery modules are then mounted together with the connections, control units and cooling units in an aluminium housing. Click to enlarge.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ It doesn’t have any connection to the world.

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Volkswagen AG provides details on investigations into NOx cheating; origin and fixes; new strategic direction

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In connection with its work, Jones Day is being provided with operational support by the audit firm Deloitte. At present, 102 terabytes of information have been secured, which is the equivalent of the information contained in approximately 50 million books. The new structure will be in place Group-wide by the start of 2017.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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With the e-tron services in the Audi connect portfolio, drivers can use their smartphones to control such functions as charging and heating or cooling. Audi connect, which is also standard, connects the Q7 e-tron quattro to the internet via the fast LTE standard. Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017. Second life.

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