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Asahi Kasei to present diversified material solutions for EV batteries and circular economy at Fakuma 2023

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Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei will showcase diversified material solutions for safe and compact EV batteries, improved connectivity and lightweighting, as well as circular economy at Fakuma , the world’s leading trade event for industrial plastics processing, from 17 - 21 October 2023 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

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KAMAZ presents its first hydrogen bus

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KAMAZ has presented the KAMAZ-6290 hydrogen fuel cell bus at the COMTRANS-2021 international exhibition in Moscow. —Chief Automobile Designer Andrei Savinkov. Rostec State Corporation is one of the largest industrial companies in Russia. There is still a lot of work to be done.

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Aramco signs LOI with Geely and Renault Group for new powertrain company to focus on lower emission technologies

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Aramco has signed a letter of intent to become a potential minority stakeholder in a new powertrain technology company (PWT), to be established by Geely Holding Group, Geely Automobile Holdings Limited—collectively referred to as “Geely”—and Renault Group.

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Volkswagen Group takes minority stake in 3D holography company SeeReal Technologies

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Volkswagen has acquired a minority stake in the technology company SeeReal Technologies. This participation will secure access for the Group to future-oriented augmented reality in the field of display technologies for the automobile. Research in this area is being carried out by the company SeeReal Technologies and is progressing.

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Asahi Kasei collaborates on development of recycling technology for carbon fiber from autos

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Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fiber plastic compounds together with the National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College and Tokyo University of Science. Thus, these carbon fiber compounds present in vehicles for weight reduction.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

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Eight insurance companies had requested information about Mr. Dahl from LexisNexis over the previous month. “It While these systems originally had to be installed under the hood of your automobile, later examples have included phone apps and giving automakers permission to share connected-vehicle data with insurance firms.

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AVTOVAZ trying to work around Renault pull-out

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The LADA brand leads on the Russian automotive market with more than 20% market share and is also present in 20 countries. The company is also preparing special versions of some LADA models with reduced exposure to imported components. These will be available to our customers in the coming months, progressively.

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