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Groupe Renault and Nissan sign exclusive alliance deal with Waymo to explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan

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Groupe Renault, Nissan Motor Co., The agreement is designed to bring together the strengths of each party and expand expertise by assessing market opportunities, working together to research commercial, legal and regulatory issues related to driverless transportation-as-a-service offerings in France and Japan.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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Following a successful pilot program, BMW Group has launched ReachNow, a free-floating premium car sharing service, in Seattle. The service will expand to include Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the next quarter. Within the second quarter of 2016, ReachNow vehicles will be available at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

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The Volkswagen Group invested €11.5 Speaking on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, underscored the Group’s increasingly aggressive R&D stance: “ Volkswagen is an innovation think tank. The Volkswagen Group delivered over 1.5 Earlier post.).

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Although theoretically a non-ZEV state buyer could special order the PHEV, said Brandon Ramirez, Senior Group Manager, Product Planning, Hyundai won’t encourage it—partly due to dealer training, support and infrastructure issues that also require their own roll-out. l/100 km) combined based on internal testing. Sonata models.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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Wildlife trafficking concerns both conservation and global security, with significant effects across the international community. The result will be a specialized search engine that will go deeper than Google could dream of, bringing leads to the fingers of law enforcement that would have previously required huge amounts of manpower.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. Well be providing more information about this in the coming months.

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