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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Customers can now experience the first results of the partnership in the latest generation Toyota Audio Multimedia and Lexus Interface infotainment systems, including in 2023 models such as the Toyota Corolla family, Tundra and Sequoia and Lexus NX, RX and all-electric RZ.

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Tesla Cybertruck sighted with apparent Starlink Mobility dish

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Some units have been sighted with a faux Ford F-150 wrap, and another has been spotted with a loud green Toyota Tundra wrap. The system uses Starlink’s Flat High Performance dish, which is designed to be resilient in harsh environments. Tesla has been having fun with the release candidates of the Cybertruck.

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27,000km Pole to Pole in a Nissan EV?

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Chris and Julie Ramsey with their 2023 Nissan Ariya Pole-to-Pole custom special Charging points are hardly plentiful in these icy tundras, and good luck plugging in at a desert servo. Considering the environments they’ll be in, the footage they’ll capture is sure to be incredible.

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Toyota launches Collaborative Safety Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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The collaborative research will pursue integrated ways to enhance safety, involving the vehicle, driver and traffic environment. TTC has helped develop the Avalon, Camry, Sienna, Solara, Tundra and Venza vehicles for the North American market.

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Ford used Alaska’s trickiest terrain to test the F-150 Lightning’s all-season capability

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Ford, which saw an over 55 percent increase in electric vehicle sales in February , took its new all-electric pickup to the coldest portions of the frozen Alaskan tundra, assessing the pickup’s performance on low-traction surfaces like snow and ice.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Vertical steam injection wells are not effective in areas with limited available surface locations, expensive surface locations (swamp, tundra), or for supporting individual, ‘thin’ (~. Andrei Popa, Steve Cassidy, Mark Mercer (2011a) A Data Mining Approach to Unlock Potential from an Old Heavy Oil Field (SPE 144470-MS) doi: 10.2118/144470-MS.

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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Indeed that is the question on the minds of oil investors as they digest the latest numbers of potential barrels of oil under the Arctic tundra. “What we don’t know is how much has the potential to be economically developed.”. Globally, their significance is harder to assess. WTI crude closed at $59.13 on Friday, June 5 th.

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