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Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services to develop Industrial Cloud; open industry platform

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Volkswagen and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will develop the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud together. In the future, the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud will combine the data of all machines, plants and systems from all 122 facilities of the Volkswagen Group. Open Industry platform. —Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.

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GAC Group begins construction of $6.5B industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles

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China-based automobile manufacturer Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group), the parent company of GAC Motor, has begun construction of a large industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles as part of its efforts to boost its electric vehicle business. More than 45 billion yuan (US$6.5 Click to enlarge.

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Agreement reached to standardize swappable batteries for electric motorcycles

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., in April 2019, aimed at increasing the adoption of electric motorcycles in Japan. The consortium was established by Honda Motor Co., Suzuki Motor Corporation and Yamaha Motor Co.,

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Audi and KIT working on recycling for automotive plastics via pyrolysis oil

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Audi and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) are therefore launching a pilot project for chemical recycling as part of the “Industrial Resource Strategies” THINKTANK in order to feed such mixed plastic fractions back into a resource-conserving circular system. The most recent example is the utilization of PET in the Audi A3.

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DENSO and BlackBerry launch integrated automobile HMI platform

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DENSO Corporation and BlackBerry Limite announced the first integrated HMI (Human Machine Interface) digital cockpit system with BlackBerry QNX technology has shipped in the first vehicles by Japanese automotive manufacturer, Subaru. billion by 2026 (CAGR of 13.67% between 2019-2026).

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Mercedes-Benz unveils new Sprinter; focus on connectivity; electric drive in 2019; realizing adVANce

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And we are doing it precisely tailored to each particular industry. Electrification: eSprinter to follow in 2019. The eVito will be followed by the eSprinter in 2019. Mercedes-Benz is the first automobile manufacturer to use this coordinate system, which assigns three words to any point on the earth’s surface.

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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. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. The passenger cars registrations for Europe-27 were 848,800 units, down by 52% compared to March 2019.

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