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Aptera Gamma makes appearance in Switzerland

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The Aptera Gamma has appeared in the mountains of Switzerland at an investing conference. Now, the company’s founders have been spotted at an investment conference in Switzerland, where the vehicle was on display. Moritz, Switzerland, and is a significant event for startup businesses looking for funding.

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Study projects future EVs to have 30-70% lower environmental impacts that current EVs when changes to electricity generation are considered

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Numerous studies have tackled the future environmental impact of battery-electric vehicles; the resulting assessments are highly uncertain. The first is changes to driving patterns due to the introduction of autonomous and connected vehicles. Credit: ACS, Cox et al. Click to enlarge.

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SEAT takes first step towards micro-mobility strategy with electric eXS KickScooter powered by Segway

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In this sense, within the Volkswagen Group’s micromobility strategy, the automotive group’s different brands plan to launch urban mobility solutions in the future. It will be available in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Portugal before the end of the year, and in the rest of Europe in 2019.

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Daimler Buses acquires a 5.25% stake in IVU AG; strategic partnership for integrated mobility

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Public transport is undergoing a radical transformation; Daimler Buses has identified three issues that will have a significant impact on the transport transformation: increasing connectivity; electric mobility; and digital mobility services. Return on sales was 5.9 percent (compared with 6.2

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

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In 2020, after performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market , where testing took place in EV hotspot California in early September 2020. Ionity secured victory among the CPOs in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.

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Hyundai Motor demonstrates autonomous driving tech capabilities with its first successful truck platooning trial

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Hyundai Motor conducted the trial using two trailer-connected Xcient trucks. Hyundai Motor will strive to achieve high-level platooning technology which will work under even tighter following distance between vehicles and also implement traffic information for optimized travel in the future.

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Volkswagen subsidiary Elli acquiring minority stake in emobility software company has·to·be

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In future, charging will therefore be quicker and more convenient. Since then, sales revenue has at least doubled every year—especially as a result of strong demand in Germany and Switzerland. Together with has·to·be, we want to open up and develop the rapidly growing business area of charging infrastructure.

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