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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Now spend 10 minutes watching a telepresence robot assemble a turkey sandwich. A single torus wheel is made of an elastic elongated coil spring in which the two ends of the coil connected each other and is driven by a piezoelectric actuator (stator) that can generate 2-degrees-of-freedom (axial and angular) motions. UPenn ].

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Turkey’s Togg selected Dürr for paint shop, complete final assembly solution for EV Technology Campus

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175,000 units smart and connected EVs are to roll off the production line annually at the Gemlik Togg Technology Campus in western Turkey by 2030. With the potential for future digitization, subsequent process integration or maintenance analysis tools is possible. Window gluing as part of line tracking. Zorlu Holding A.Ş.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance delivers €4.3B synergy target early; autonomous drive and connectivity expected to deliver major savings

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The Common Module Family and cross-production continue to reduce costs, while the development of technologies including autonomous drive and vehicle connectivity is expected to generate major savings moving forward. Collaborative work on Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Drive and connectivity. billion (US$6.1 Earlier post.)

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Norwegian Post becomes first European customer for Transit Connect Electric van with 20-unit purchase; targeting 30% reduction in CO2 by 2015

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Norwegian Post Ford Transit Connect Electric. Norway Post has signed a contract to purchase 20 Transit Connect Electric vehicles, with an option to order more vehicles in the future. Ford and Azure are introducing the Transit Connect Electric in summer 2011. Transit Connect Electric offers a cargo volume of 3.8

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Synovate Global Study Explores Future Car Buyers Sentiments

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Anger, frustration, greed, lack of trust are a few of the many sentiments expressed by consumers and future car buyers globally, according to a recent “Tipping Point” study by Synovate Motoresearch, the automotive division of global market research company Synovate. However, consumers across the 16 countries fell into three distinct groups.

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Daimler’s moovel Group acquires Familonet GmbH, provider of location messenger app Familonet

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The Familonet app, with 2 million registered users, will still be offered in the future. With the takeover of Familonet, competencies in the area of geo-fencing and live locating can be used to develop solutions for the urban mobility of the future. The core markets are Germany, USA, Brazil, India and Turkey.

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Ford Model e unit announces massive expansion of EV initiative in Europe: 7 new EVs by 2024

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This is why we have created Ford Model e – allowing us to move at the speed of a start-up to build electric vehicles that delight and offer connected services unique to Ford and that are built with Ford-grade engineering and safety.”. Ford’s Cologne, Germany EV Hotspot. New battery partnership with SK On Co., and Koç Holding.

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