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Tesla stock dips as Elon Musk agrees to sell 10% of his personal TSLA shares

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I do believe that him doing it in this way definitely would soften the blow and would help the perception as well,” Ives stated. . This rally effectively allowed Musk to become the world’s wealthiest person by net worth, but he was not the only one whose fortunes benefited from Tesla’s rise.

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BMW launches new head unit for SAE Level 2+ automation with HERE HD Live Map

Green Car Congress

HERE Technologies announced the BMW Group is utilizing the HERE HD Live Map, HERE’s high-definition map, to enable hands-free driving in the United States and Canada. HERE is one of the world’s first companies to provide high-definition maps for Level 2+ automated driving capabilities in series production vehicles.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

Our goal was to measure how much people liked the images produced by our reconstruction scheme, without constraining "likeability" by definitions. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular? Such a scale is admittedly vague, but we left it vague by design. Because his mouth curved up more at the edges?

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Cadillac reveals CELESTIQ show car

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The Smart Glass Roof features Suspended Particle Device (SPD) technology that allows for four zones of variable lighting, enabling passengers to fine-tune their cabin experience for completely personalized comfort and visibility.

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Next Fuel, Inc. signs definitive agreement to field test coal-to-gas technology in China; Chinese partner makes strategic investment

Green Car Congress

The company also announced that persons affiliated with Future Fuel made the second part of a $2-million strategic investment in Next Fuel and now own 1 million shares of common stock, which exceeds 10% of Next Fuel’s outstanding shares, and a representative of the investor group joined the Board of Directors. Next Fuel, Inc.,

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ASX and Spirit AeroSystems partner to develop affordable eVTOL aircraft for mass production

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Airspace Experience Technologies ( ASX ), an aviation technology start-up, and Spirit AeroSystems, a global aircraft design and manufacturing company, have signed a memorandum of understanding and a definitive agreement to cooperate on creation of affordable, certified all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

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Study of premium car buyers finds large majority see driving EV within 5 years; financing most popular option

Green Car Congress

online contact with the provider during the purchasing process—are equally important as personal contact with the dealer (GER: 55%; US: 52%, CN: 76%). However, a designated personal contact can increase the willingness to finalize a contract online. For the majority of respondents in all countries, digital touchpoints—i.e.

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