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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold.

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This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked

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The situation is the result of supply-chain issues caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. The competition is for startups that have designed technologies for the consumer goods and retail industry. Wisy currently has 16 employees, who work in Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, and the United States. Founded 2016.

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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

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Ricardo’s Rising-15 automotive markets include: Argentina; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Peru; the Philippines; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; and Vietnam. Nissan introducing new Datsun in Indonesia.

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Tesla taps new glass supplier for Plaid Model S

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AGP is a Peru-based company that specializes in all types of automotive glass, but what they’ve done for Tesla is especially interesting. The company has been in business for 50 years, but just like everything else, it changes, and the automotive industry is no different. 208 , beating out the Lucid Air’s impressive.21

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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published an open letter to the robotics community and industry pledging to not weaponize their general purpose robots. An Open Letter to the Robotics Industry and our Communities, General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized. Schulman: This is part of the discussion we’ve been having in the industry and with other stakeholders.

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IHS Automotive forecasts 88.6M unit global light vehicle market in 2015; 2.4% growth

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in 2014 as a result of industrial overcapacity and weakness in the real estate sector. The campaign is expected to have a long-lasting effect on premium parts/vehicle prices in China. to 3%, helped by the European Central Bank’s (ECB) commitment to full-blown Quantitative Easing (QE). The year preliminarily closed with 5.34

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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IBM and Maersk also announced that as part of the TradeLens early adopter program, 94 organizations are actively involved or have agreed to participate on the TradeLens platform built on open standards. —Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president, IBM Global Industries, Solutions and Blockchain.