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Hyundai Motor Group’s connected car services reach 10M global service subscribers

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Hyundai Motor Group surpassed 10 million global connected car service subscribers this month. Connected car services utilize wireless networks to enable in-vehicle infotainment systems and smartphone applications that provide customers with convenient access to their vehicles.

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BMW Brilliance Automotive opens battery factory in Shenyang; 3rd battery factory in BMW Group production network

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By 2025, we expect our electrified BMW and MINI models to account for between 15 and 25 percent of global sales. The battery modules are then mounted together with the connections, control units and cooling units in an aluminium housing. The extended contract is valid for ten years (from 2018 to 2028). —Oliver Zipse.

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Toyota & Daimler Merging Hino & Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Brands

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Their stated goal is to become a "globally competitive" Japanese truck maker with an emphasis on serving Southeast Asia as the primary market. Nissan sold its truck subsidiary to Volvo in 2007, Volkswagen renamed its truck and bus unit Traton in 2018 and listed it on the Frankfurt and Stockholm stock exchanges the following year.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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He was also a co-chair of the IEEE Digital Reality initiative, dedicated to facilitating disruptive technological innovations and fostering cross-industry collaborations globally while taking societal impact into consideration. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Laser altimetry’s problems would seem to have no connection to aircraft-based IPR surveys.

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How the Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity

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In 1991 he built the first asymmetric digital subscriber line (DSL) modem, which quickly replaced most dial-up connections. What’s more, DSL relied on the copper wires that phone companies insisted to Cioffi were passé, thereby unlocking a future forever altered by connectivity. The company employed about 170 people at its peak.

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