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China BAK to supply additional 1,000 Li-ion battery packs to Chery for M1 EV

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announced a new contract to supply high-power Li-ion batteries to Chery Automobile. Under the contract, China BAK will deliver 1,000 lithium-ion high-power battery units in 2012 to power Chery’s Ruilin M1 electric cars. China BAK will hold a joint press conference with Chery in mid-April in Tianjin.

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Shanghai auto show: Full schedule of 150 press conferences for exhibitors

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NIO will hold 2 press conferences on April 18 from 10:00-10:20 and on April 19 from 14:00-14:30. As the first major auto show after the Covid opening in China, the Shanghai auto show, which will start next week, is highly anticipated, with more than 100 press conferences by car companies and supply chain players on media days.

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China to Encourage Consolidation in Auto Industry; Push to Increase Market Share of Domestic Automakers

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China’s central government plans to implement a new policy in the first half of this year to encourage auto industry consolidation and further the development of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said at a recent news conference. Sales of domestic sedans hit 2.22

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NVIDIA, Baidu partner to accelerate AI; cloud data centers, self-driving cars and the home

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Speaking in the keynote at Baidu’s AI developer conference in Beijing, Baidu president and COO Qi Lu described his company’s plans to work with NVIDIA to: Bring next-generation NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Baidu Cloud. We believe AI is the most powerful technology force of our time, with the potential to revolutionize every industry.

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CATL unveils Condensed Battery for electric aircrafts and EVs

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Chinese power battery giant CATL has unveiled its new battery technology, Condensed Battery, which is expected to be used in electric aircrafts and drive faster change in the electric vehicle industry. As some background, 500 Wh/kg energy density is the highest we've seen to date for any power cell claimed to be able to be mass-produced.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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The drone industry alone was estimated at US $100 billion in 2020, and autonomous systems are already driving significantly more value across other domains. This is not to say that researchers are ignoring security — after all, security infrastructure and tools are a multi-billion dollar industry. Gartner coined the term.

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