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Toyota to launch a Prius-like bZ3C electric crossover, but you can’t have it

Baua Electric

Toyota to launch bZ3C in China as new BYD rival “What kind of BEV would bring smiles to the faces of our Chinese Customers?” Executive Vice President and CTO Hiroki Nakakima asked during a press conference last month. Toyota says the distinctive styled EV focuses on features to create a fun personal space for younger Gen Z buyers.

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Huawei exec who called Tesla “killing” machines fired after China legal team’s complaint

Teslarati

Su Qing has conducted a deep review of his personal inappropriate remarks, but due to his remarks, our company decided to remove Su Qing’s position as the head of the Intelligent Driving Products Department of BU Intelligent Vehicle Solutions,” Huawei said. ” .

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Say it ain’t so: BMW, Volkswagen, and Renault take aim at Europe’s ICE ban

Baua Electric

By the end of 2025 the world will note that it’s not that easy,” he added, speaking at the automaker’s annual results conference. “By Those conditions usually mean consumers opting for European cars over Chinese ones, as European automakers face immense pressure from cheaper, high-quality Chinese brands arriving by the shipload.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

Cars That Think

She created social events, held every two weeks, at which faculty and staff meet over coffee and learn about cultural customs—such as Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, and Chinese New Year—from one another. “In The campaign grew to include hosting panels on DEI policies at conferences and holding leadership training.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Your Creative Greenius will be covering the 2009 Plug-In Conference coming up next week from August 10-13 and I’ll see the Leaf up close and personal and talk to the Nissan people. Several Chinese car companies are working on cheap, entry level full electric vehicles and will have them ready years before the major car companies.

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