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CapGemini: 87% of global consumers prefer personal vehicle to ensure safe travel, up from 57% in April 2020

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This reflects a continuous shift in consumer preference towards personal mobility, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, as car ownership today is seen as a safeguard against the risk and spread of infection. Meanwhile, 78% of consumers will opt for using their personal vehicles over taking public transport.

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Hyundai opening R&D and Lab Center in Montana to design and build Ultimate Mobility Vehicles

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The Industry Building that will house NHS Bozeman will break ground starting in June 2022, while the first R&D office officially opens in June 2022. Elevate concept revealed in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2019. The estimated 12,000 to 15,000 sq.

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Tesla Cybertruck’s original build flexed by Petersen Auto Museum in new promo video

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The original Tesla Cybertruck build unveiled in Hawthorne, California in November 2019 has been at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as a part of the ‘Inside Tesla’ exhibit, and is now being flexed in a new promotional video ahead of the pickup’s initial production.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Mercedes-Benz EQC electric crossover makes US debut at CES 2019

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The first Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle from the EQ brand made its US premiere at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. A special feature of Interior Assistant is the personal favorites function, which is initiated using a horizontally outstretched index and middle finger. The ratio between digital and real testing is roughly 35 to 65 percent.

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Intel CEO predicts chips will be more than 20% of premium vehicle BOM by 2030

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At IAA Mobility, during his first in-person keynote since taking the helm of Intel in February, CEO Pat Gelsinger predicted that semiconductors will account for more than 20% of the total premium vehicle bill of materials (BOM) by 2030. That represents a 5x growth rate over 2019’s 4% figure. In March, Gelsinger introduced “IDM 2.0”.

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EPFL solar hydrogen system co-generates heat and oxygen

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The work builds on preliminary research demonstrating the concept on the laboratory scale, using LRESE’s high-flux solar simulator, which was published in Nature Energy in 2019. Holmes-Gentle et al. At an output level of about half a kilogram of solar hydrogen per day, the EPFL campus system could power around 1.5

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