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SK Innovation Q2 profit tops forecast, battery unit eyes EV demand recovery – ET Auto

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SK Innovation Co Ltd said on Monday its SK On battery-making unit is on target to breakeven in the second half of this year after it posted a forecast-beating operating profit in the first quarter, sending its shares up over 6.0%. That compared with an average analyst forecast of 466 billion won. rise as of 0336 GMT.

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Forecasting the Ice Loss of Greenland’s Glaciers With Viscoelastic Modeling

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. The ongoing discharge of ice into the ocean is a “fundamental process in the ice sheet mass-balance,” according to a 2021 article in Communications Earth & Environment by Humbert and her colleagues. However, Earth’s great ice sheets are always moving and evolving.

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New UC Davis market-based sustainability forecasting approach concludes supplanting gasoline and diesel with renewable fuels could take 131 years

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At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov. —Deb Niemeier.

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IDTechEx: buying an autonomous electric car will feel more like buying a laptop than a car

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and turn it into a 3D map of the environment and identify all the vehicles and all the people around the vehicle. The graphics cards take information from the CPU and turn it into an image for the screen. One of the main computational tasks for an autonomous vehicle is to take data from each of the cameras, radar, LiDAR, etc.,

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Volkswagen progressing with work on quantum computing, develops traffic management system for taxi companies

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For the first time, Volkswagen researchers have succeeded in using a quantum computer to develop a traffic management system that will replace forecasting for urban traffic volumes, transport demand and travel times with precise calculations. D-Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment (QAE).

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China auto sales sluggish on consumer sentiment, improvement expected in Q2, says Deutsche Bank

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This has led to an even more challenging pricing environment that should last at least through the end of April, Yu's team said. For the second quarter, the team continues to see industry volume growth and has raised its NEV retail sales forecast from 1.65 NIO delivered 10,378 units (-15% MoM, +4% YoY), below our forecast.

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Worldwide semiconductor revenue to drop 11% in 2023: Gartner – ET Auto

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per cent in 2023, according to a forecast. According to the latest forecast from Gartner, in 2022, the market totalled USD 599.6 Global semiconductor revenue is forecast to total USD 532 billion in 2023. The automotive semiconductor market is forecast to grow 13.8 billion, which was marginal growth of 0.2

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