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Renault’s new 2017-2022 plan: 8 EVs, 12 electrified models, 15 autonomous models

Green Car Congress

Groupe Renault announced “Drive The Future,” a new six-year plan to deliver annual revenues of more than €70 billion and achieve a group operating margin of more than 7% by the end of the plan, with a floor at 5%, and positive free cash flow every year. Growing market opportunities in Brazil, India, Iran. Autonomous – 15 AD vehicles.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

Green Car Congress

More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. urban buses, delivery trucks) and high mileage light-duty vehicles, primarily fleet vehicles (such as taxis, business and government vehicles). The Future of Natural Gas (MIT).

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Autonomous driving tech faces geopolitical ‘winter’ on road to mainstream – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The US is saying that we will have to audit anything that has AI in it being sold to other countries, because they don’t want it to go to countries like Russia and Iran. So if I sell that technology here), and it ends up in Iran and Russia, then I’m on the hook,” says a global CEO of a Tier 1 supplier.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

“I was delighted that the society acknowledged my contributions, which went beyond science and technology, and to have these visionaries confirm that I wasn’t crazy or paranoid to want a radical change in the way both the architecture and the business model of the Internet will work in the future, with social sustainability at the forefront.”