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Honda and Google to collaborate on in-vehicle connected services

Green Car Congress

Honda and Google have agreed to integrate Google’s in-vehicle connected service into an all-new model that will come to market in the second half of 2022 in North America. Honda and Google have been collaborating since 2015 with the broader automotive industry to introduce the Android platform to automobiles.

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Tesla starts using Cybertruck as a mobile billboard – literally

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I have previously argued that ‘ Tesla Cybertruck is a mistake turned marketing tool ‘. Now, you can argue that it is still useful to have the Cybertruck in showrooms for reservation holders to come see it in person before moving forward with their orders. The goal is again to bring people in stores and sell them Tesla’s other vehicles.

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3 Surprising Marketing Benefits of Electric Car Charging Stations

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Business owners are well aware of the many methods of marketing. Giant Food just announced it would be installing Volta charging stations at one of its grocery stores in Fairfax, Virginia. Bridgestone plans to install EVBox chargers at its retail stores across Europe over the next five years. In the U.S.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user. The device has not been released to the market yet.

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“Better off sharing”: Opel launches CarUnity brand-agnostic carsharing concept

Green Car Congress

The CarUnity app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play. CarUnity users can, for example, offer their car only to their Facebook friends or to people in their personal CarUnity network. It does not matter if the car is an Opel or a different brand. We are taking a new approach with CarUnity.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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