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“Better off sharing”: Opel launches CarUnity brand-agnostic carsharing concept

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The CarUnity app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play. CarUnity enables individual mobility everywhere in Germany—at any time and with greatest flexibility. People in Germany can offer their car for rental or rent a car with the free app. We are taking a new approach with CarUnity.

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“Inspiring Female Founder” – Jordan Brompton spotlighted in The Successful Founder

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Indeed, we’ve grown rapidly from a handful of staff manufacturing products by hand in a countryside workshop, to a workforce of more than 400, operating from a state-of-the-art facility in Stallingborough, with subsidiaries opened in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia along the way. By this point, the future seemed pretty bleak.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. Peace Through Strength The decision to work on weapons technology, or not, was highly personal to Bush and a decision not easy to unpack.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. You wanted to know what the future of Moore’s Law is and who would be making it happen. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. A rival group at Google responded that it didn’t, but the company wouldn’t publish the rival’s results.

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GM launches Maven car sharing brand

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Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. Earlier post.). GM President Dan Ammann.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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Caroline Reichert, a spokeswoman for the Germany energy company RWE , said leading automotive and energy companies have reached an agreement for a standardized plug for electric cars. digs into the viscous world of biofuels and the fast-paced transit arena, exploring the technologies and substances that are the future of transportation.

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SSB Flex mobility service launches in Stuttgart on 1 June

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SSB Flex is the first on-demand service in Germany approved by the Stuttgart Regional Council as a regular passenger service under the German Passenger Transportation Act ( Personenbeförderungsgesetz – PBefG ). Customers can save their personal information and payment details in the app. and also from Thursday to Saturday from 9 p.m.