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BMW electric cars hit 100,000 sales target
BMW reaches its electric car sales target BMW have announced that it has hit its target of selling 100,000 electric cars this year around the world. The German car giant is benefiting from a strong demand in western Europe and the United States for models such as the i3 and the 2-series plug-in hybrid Active Tourer. The sales of these...
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Tesla Delivery Centres Ready to Deliver 100s of Cars Calming Production Fears
Tesla’s share price rose over 4 percent after reports circulated that hundreds of its production-plagued Model 3 cars are waiting at their delivery centres and will soon be delivered to customers. Hundreds of the highly anticipated Model 3 EV’s were spotted across the company’s delivery centres in California in the United States. These cars are obviously not being set aside...
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Apple Reveals More of its Self-Driving Technology
Apple has released results from several of the companies artificial intelligence AI projects. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Apple’s director of artificial intelligence research addressed roughly 200 AI experts who had signed up for a free lunch and peek at how Apple uses machine learning, a technique for analyzing large stockpiles of data. Each of the projects involved giving software capabilities needed for...
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Tesla discourages commercial cars from using Superchargers
Tesla is discouraging commercial cars from using its Supercharger infrastructure in the United States as it is trying to get drivers to stick to the charging stations' original purposes. The Tesla Supercharger network was originally designed to enable their electric vehicles long-range trips and offer a viable charging option for people who can't usually top up at home or the...
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Sole traders could save €12k tax on cars
Tax savings for Sole Traders A new measure which came into force after the budget has escaped widespread attention. The new and cost-saving measure could mean that sole traders would save around €12,000 on income tax if they buy an electric vehicle (EV). The Accelerated Capital Allowances deal means that self employed sole traders who buy an EV can front-load...
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Alibaba to sell cars in China from gigantic vending machines
Alibaba, the world's largest and most valuable retailer is planning to sell cars from giant vending machines in China. The company surpassed Walmart in 2016 to become the world biggest retailer with operations in over 200 countries, as well as one of the largest Internet companies. Its online sales and profits surpassed all US retailers including Walmart, Amazon and eBay...
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Connected smart cars could help identify and track potholes
The smart connected cars of the future will be programmed to spot potholes on motorways and automatically transmit the information to the authorities and councils to schedule repairs. An intelligent network coupled with connected vehicles would greatly improve the condition of our roads and make sure that they are maintained to a higher level and at the same time improve...
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China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars
As one can imagine, self-driving cars need high-quality digital maps to function properly. They not only utilise digital mapping to find their general location, but also in some cases to locate landmarks that aid maneuvering in low-viability situations, or when a GPS link isn't available. Digital map data has become a major priority for car manufacturers around the world, especially...
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Why is the Irish driving test so hard, expensive and difficult to pass?
Why is the driving test so hard and expensive? Passing a driving test is certainly not easy and always challenging, expensive and stressful, except, seemingly for Mexico, where it would seem for the moment, you don’t have to sit a driving test). In stark contrast to Mexico and many other parts of the world, it would seem that Ireland is...
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Learner drivers face seven-month wait for driving test
Troubling new figures reveal that learner drivers are facing up to seven months on the waiting list to get a driving test. The number of people waiting for their driving test has shot up from 44,000 to 76,000 since October. In reality, learner drivers may be losing out on job opportunities because of the waiting time and they will also...