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SAIC-GM Connectivity Strategy 2025 lays out roadmap to cloud-based connectivity, autonomy

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SAIC-GM, GM’s Chinese joint venture with SAIC, announced its Connectivity Strategy 2025, which lays out a roadmap for its connectivity development from 2017 through 2025. 2020: Promote connected vehicle (V2X) technology to make mobility safer. 2020: Promote connected vehicle (V2X) technology to make mobility safer.

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Airbiquity and Baidu partner to provide connected car internet services in China

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US-based connected vehicle services provider Airbiquity, Inc., and Baidu, the leading Chinese internet services provider, recently announced a partnership to provide connected car internet services to the Chinese automotive market beginning in first quarter 2014.

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HARMAN and Baidu DuerOS collaborate on AI Solutions for China automotive market

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HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung focused on connected technologies for the automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, has expanded its relationship with Baidu, the leading Chinese Internet and web services company, to develop jointly new cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at Chinese automakers.

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What is Tesla’s Full Self Driving and why its China rollout matters – ET Auto

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. ” Still, the U.S. ” Still, the U.S. WHAT IS FSD? Tesla has sold more than 1.7

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Xpeng partners with China’s streamlined EV service platform that covers 90% of country

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New Electricity Approach’s collaboration with Xpeng is far from its first with leading Chinese automakers. The platform has no achieved a 90 percent coverage rate in China due to its ability to connect with over 350 Chinese charging operators. ” I’d love to hear from you! . ” I’d love to hear from you!

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GM employs Tesla-esque direct-to-consumer sales strategy in China

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With Durant Guild, GM hopes to revitalize Chinese consumers’ interest in its brand and increase sales in the country. The head of GM China, Julian Blissett, noted that the OEM’s goal with Durant Guild isn’t to sell volume but instead change the perception Chinese consumers have about General Motors.

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Audi designs urbansphere concept for Chinese megacities

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Designers and engineers initially created the Audi urbansphere for use in traffic-dense Chinese megacities, although the concept is also suitable for any other metropolitan center in the world. In these urban areas, where personal space is in particularly short supply, the concept car offers the largest interior space of any Audi to date.

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