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Continental wins tire technology award with C.A.R.E tire concept for electric robotaxis

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is a wheel/tire concept which, with its Cloud-based connectivity, offers fleet operators a particularly efficient means of mobility management. Fleets of autonomous electric taxis are a case in point, playing a key role in many concepts of the environmentally compatible mobility of the future. Conti C.A.R.E. Autonomous. writes the ERJ.

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Nissan field testing new mobility services as part of building sustainable future community in Japan

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The hubs connect to other vehicles, including personal vehicles, which serve as “spokes” and are used for travel to nearby areas. It includes home delivery of packages using “spoke” vehicle such as EV taxis and utilizing Japan Post vehicles for efficient delivery, as well as roadside station pickup of purchases from supermarkets.

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DENSO and Toyota Tsusho to test quantum computing analysis of IoT traffic data

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The test will collect and analyze location information from about 130,000 taxis and trucks in Thailand through cloud-based quantum computer devices developed by Canada-based D-Wave Systems Inc. This type of technology will be essential in the connected era, when vehicles and mobility systems need to process large amounts of data in real-time.

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KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

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Hydrogen gas, however, cannot be transported in large amounts due to the limitations in the amount that can be stored per unit volume. Liquid ammonia (hydrogen storage density per volume: 108kg-H 2 /m 3 ) is capable of storing around 1.5 drone taxis), unmanned aerial vehicles, ships, and other modes of transportation.

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CoBank report suggests self-driving vehicles could easily overwhelm current data center market

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Las Vegas announced that starting this year, it will allow Lyft and Motional to deploy a limited fleet of self-driving, driverless taxis with a full-fledged commercial launch slated for 2023. In 2020, globally we stored just under 3% of all data created, with a total storage capacity of 2.1ZBs. 4% of the datasphere would be stored.

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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The acronym CASE is the name given to the specific area of strategy at Mercedes‑Benz Cars that focuses on the future-oriented issues of “connectivity”, “ autonomous driving”, “sharing” and “electric drive systems”. The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. Earlier post.).

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Daimler launches moovel integrated mobility service pilot in Stuttgart

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The free moovel app is available in the Apple Store. In the app the various options for bus and rail connections in the VVS service area are shown, including travel time and price. A taxicab call function, with the aid of which the user can order a taxi by phone from the app, completes the first version.

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