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Hyundai Motor Group puts Spot to work at Kia’s plant in South Korea

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Hyundai Motor Group introduced Factory Safety Service Robot, a robot for industrial site safety, and announced its pilot operation at Kia’s plant in South Korea. The Robot will help detect risks and secure people’s safety in industrial sites.

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A look at Tesla’s potential new Gigafactory locations: Mexico, Canada, Indonesia or South Korea

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Elon Musk teased a possible gigafactory in Canada during Giga Texas’ Cyber Rodeo event earlier this year. In September, Canada’s Minister of Industry Francois-Philippe Champagne stated that Tesla did discuss the possibility of building a factory in Canada. Tesla South Korea. Tesla Indonesia.

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Hyundai signs MOU with South Korean government and industry partners to demo EV battery leasing business

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Hyundai Motor signed the MOU with South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy as well as Hyundai Glovis, LG Energy Solution and KST Mobility for the rental of electric taxi batteries and the sustainable reuse of EV batteries in energy storage systems (ESS).

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Photos and Specs for the Upcoming Kia EV5 GT Surfaced On a Chinese Government Website

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Motor 1 located an application on China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) website that covers a new EV called the EV5, a small crossover with the brand’s signature funky styling. Kia debuted the standard EV5 late last year during its first EV Day event in South Korea.

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Hyundai to begin production of Casper mini EV for Europe in July: report

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At the time, Hyundai’s marketing lead in Europe, Andreas-Christoph Hofmann, also echoed plans for targeting a 20,000-euro price point: “Everybody in the industry knows the target of this kind of vehicle is 20,000 euros,” he said during the Automotive News Europe Congress event in Prague. What are your thoughts?

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Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. GRVC ] In collaboration with Trimble, we are announcing a proof-of-concept to enable robots and machines to follow humans and other machines in industrial applications.

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ICCT report finds US domestic EV production and investment continues to fall; only 5% of global EV investment to go to US EV assembly plants

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million in 2020, followed by 450,000 in the US and about 110,000 each in Japan and South Korea. Great promotional events and bold aspirational statements by the domestic auto industry can’t mask the facts. Continuing on this path would hurt the domestic US auto industry’s prospects for decades.

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