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Renault’s new 2017-2022 plan: 8 EVs, 12 electrified models, 15 autonomous models

Green Car Congress

Growing market opportunities in Brazil, India, Iran. New mobility services – Ride-hailing, robo-taxi services by end of plan. Drive the Future will also include investment in digitalization in all parts of the company, in new talent recruitment and skills development. Alliance scale and technologies to support the growth: €4.2

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Autonomous driving tech faces geopolitical ‘winter’ on road to mainstream – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The US is saying that we will have to audit anything that has AI in it being sold to other countries, because they don’t want it to go to countries like Russia and Iran. So if I sell that technology here), and it ends up in Iran and Russia, then I’m on the hook,” says a global CEO of a Tier 1 supplier.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. Wireless innovator.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. urban buses, delivery trucks) and high mileage light-duty vehicles, primarily fleet vehicles (such as taxis, business and government vehicles). Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3 million bpd of oil.

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