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

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Growing market opportunities in Brazil, India, Iran. New mobility services – Ride-hailing, robo-taxi services by end of plan. Expanded Russia presence through Renault and investments in AVTOVAZ (Lada). Accelerating opportunities in China, new strategic joint ventures in EV and LCV. billion in Monozukuri savings over the plan.

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Geely exports more than 100,000 vehicles in 2012; 164% year-on-year growth

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In 2007, Geely signed a joint venture with the British taxi manufacturer Manganese Bronze which saw the two companies produce the TX range of taxis in Shanghai, which are sold in the local Chinese market and also to international markets including the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia.

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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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The Middle East is home to the largest market for LD NGVs, Iran. Egypt also has a relatively strong light duty vehicle (LDV) market, particularly among taxi. Other markets in Europe continue to struggle with growing. refueling infrastructure fast enough to meet the needs of both consumers and fleets, the report notes.

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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

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He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver.

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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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