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Geely launches Lynk & Co; a new electrified and connected global car brand

Green Car Congress

China-based automaker Geely has launched Lynk & Co —a new global car brand designed and engineered in Sweden; every model will feature an electrified powertrain. Full mobile connectivity will also be standard, working in partnership with Ericsson. —Alain Visser, Senior Vice President of Lynk & Co.

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EU SARTRE Project Targets Autonomous Road Trains; Enhanced Safety and Lower Fuel Consumption

Green Car Congress

Part-funded by the European Commission under the Framework 7 program, SARTRE will be led by Ricardo UK Ltd and will be a collaboration between Idiada and Robotiker-Tecnalia of Spain; Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (IKA) of Germany; and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Technology of Sweden.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Cervero believes Stockholm, Sweden and Curitiba, Brazil are two good examples of the TOD principle. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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Or if you want to vote in person, ballots and ballot boxes are available at the front. In Sweden, Tesla has faced months-long strikes and boycotts over what has been characterized as a refusal to bargain. Autonomous taxi? And in fact, I invite you to just do it personally. Therefore, we urge you to vote for item nine.

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