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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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In June 2015, Saudi Arabia pumped a record 10.564 million barrels a day, a record level. The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. per barrel in first quarter of 2015). by Gaurav Agnihotri for Oilprice.com. In case of Saudi Arabia, the price of crude oil would be extremely low.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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It was nearly twice as fast as existing memory products by competitors including Fairchild and the Electrotechnical Laboratory of Tsukuba, Japan. At the time I wrote the article, I thought I was just showing a local trend,” he told IEEE Spectrum in 2015. Intel’s first product, the 3101 64-bit SRAM, was released in 1969.

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Development of autonomous cars is steadily progressing with AI as an accelerator, says Sven Lanwer, XC expert from Bosch – ET Auto

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In 2014 or 2015. You have said that it’s not very cheap to implement ADAS, especially in countries like India or developing countries like Brazil or South Africa. In Germany we have a large footprint, also in India and Eastern Europe, We have the local markets in China, Japan, and the US. When did deep learning start?

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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67 POINTS (1ST PLACE IN 2015-2019) Claim to fame: maybe sometimes it’s good to chill back for a year at #2. Still, 61k is quite a slide from well over 100k in 2015-2018, and represents ~40% market share, not what one would expect considering the track record. Ok, if you made it thus far, then…. drumrollllll. 2ND PLACE: CHINA!

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

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Japan and the 1970s as parable We have, in fact, seen this story before. The steel crisis came courtesy of Japan, a country whose manufacturing methods far outstripped America’s, and which was determined to undercut American steel. Between preparation, determination, and opportunity, Japan was able to gain a lasting lead.

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