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A look at Tesla’s potential new Gigafactory locations: Mexico, Canada, Indonesia or South Korea

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Another benefit to building in Mexico is that Tesla vehicles would still qualify for EV subsidies in the United States from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Elon Musk teased a possible gigafactory in Canada during Giga Texas’ Cyber Rodeo event earlier this year. For Tesla, we want them to build electric cars in Indonesia.

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Hyundai to begin production of Casper mini EV for Europe in July: report

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At the time, Hyundai’s marketing lead in Europe, Andreas-Christoph Hofmann, also echoed plans for targeting a 20,000-euro price point: “Everybody in the industry knows the target of this kind of vehicle is 20,000 euros,” he said during the Automotive News Europe Congress event in Prague. What are your thoughts?

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Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoMeLa ] Imperial College London and Empa researchers have built a drone that can withstand high enough temperatures to enter burning buildings. Fully autonomous soccer playing outdoors.

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Video Friday: Detour on Mars

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Titled “Building and Testing a General Intelligence Embodied in a Humanoid Robot,” the paper touches on metrics of intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and more. Sanctuary AI ]

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Tesla Mexico factory announcement imminent, Musk to speak with Mexican President: Minister

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For the company to have a chance at achieving this goal, Tesla would have to build and ramp several more gigafactories in the coming years. Elon Musk hinted as much last year during the Cyber Rodeo event when he responded positively to the idea of a Gigafactory Canada.

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Hyundai Motor’s IONIQ 5 N enters final phase of racetrack capability testing at Nürburgring

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To achieve this, Hyundai Motor combined the strengths of Namyang R&D Center located in South Korea and its European Test Center at the Nürburgring, which is an extension of Hyundai’s European R&D center in Rüsselsheim, Germany, where the brand’s European design and engineering teams have been based since 2003.

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Video Friday: Googly Eye

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Preceding the global events of 2020, the IHMC Robotics Open House was an annual event. There isn’t one way to build a Mobot! IHMC ] Thanks, William! And not all Mobots have to have wheels.