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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. It will ramp up for the first time at our future plant in Debrecen, Hungary, before being rolled out across our global production network in stages. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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bp and Uber partner to drive delivery growth globally

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The new partnership covers retail sites in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and the west coast of US. Since 2019, bp has seen a three-fold increase in users of the BPme app, with 16 million active loyalty users worldwide. bp currently offers delivery in 10 markets with a variety of partners.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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At this time, the loss of supply from these closures amounted to more than 1% of the total mine supply in 2019. The impact could be significant for Africa, a key cobalt producing region where the outbreak is still in its early stages. Roskill will update its Cobalt: Outlook to 2029 report, published in August 2019, in May.

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Arushi Kumar joins Royal Enfield as AVP and manager, marketing global group | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Arushi joined Royal Enfield after spending close to two years with Mahindra & Mahindra, where she was part of the team that showcased the electric vehicle portfolio BE in the UK and South Africa. She will be reporting to Mohit Juyal – the head of marketing at Royal Enfield. At Great Wall, she also received the President’s Award.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. Hold a Patent? Pay Income Taxes?

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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

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The pilot project, which will form part of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, was officially announced today by Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa and responsible for the Sub-Sahara Africa Region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente.

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Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT

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To easily understand the logic behind this, Gu gives an example: Suppose we give a prompt to reach a certain target point, this prompt may come from the navigation of a map, or in the future it may come from human voice instructions during voice interaction.

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