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Paks, Hungary orders 10 electric Solaris buses

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The city of Paks, located in the central part of Hungary, has ordered 10 zero-emission electric buses from Solaris: six Solaris Urbino 12 electric vehicles and four 8.9-meter LE electric will be delivered to Hungary within 11 months of signing the contract. meter electric buses with five stationary chargers. Urbino 8.9 LE electric.

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Brussels plant kicks off production for the new Audi Q8 e-tron

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Body and chassis of the Audi Q8 e-tron are connected. Among other things, Audi Brussels installed one of the region’s largest photovoltaic systems on the plant premises, covering 107,000 square meters. The electric traction motors for production are transported from Hungary to Brussels by green freight.

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Tesla pledges to keep Ukrainian workers’ employment and salary if they serve in military

Teslarati

Tesla’s Energy team used PV inverters given by the company’s certified installer network, pre-made DC cables given by a Supercharger Installation Partner, and AC cables made out of scrap from Giga Berlin to help set up Starlink stations in Ukraine. World Health Organization. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Volkswagen Group to add 15 more plants to Industrial Cloud this year

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These include the plants at Brunswick, Emden, Hanover, Ingolstadt, Kassel, Leipzig, Neckarsulm, Salzgitter, Zuffenhausen and Zwickau (all in Germany), Martorell (Spain), Palmela (Portugal), Györ (Hungary), and Mladá Boleslav and Vrchlabi (Czech Republic). Each machine, equipment item and system will be connected manually.

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Ford sources battery capacity and raw materials for 600K EV annual run rate by late 2023, 2M by end of 2026; adding LFP

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Ford also is leveraging its long-standing connection with LG Energy Solution (LGES) and its strategic relationship with SK On to meet its battery capacity target for late 2023. Driving to more than 2 million EVs by late 2026.

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Study finds advanced driver assistance systems not always reliable in long-term operation

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As part of the study, TÜV Rheinland experts took a modified test vehicle equipped with a state-of-the-art lane keeping assistance system on the Zalazone test track in Hungary. —Rico Barth, global head of the connected and automated driving competence area at TÜV Rheinland. million on average.

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Machine learning and AI save INR 1cr for Apollo Tyres daily in capex – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Using IoT, the company has connected most of the production machines at its facilities to the cloud to create a data lake; this data is analysed using AI and ML. As on date, the company has seven facilities in all, of which five are in India and one each in Hungary and the Netherlands.

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