With the launch of its Neue Klasse platform and series of electric models, BMW will also introduce its Gen 6 battery technology, which brings significant improvements in all areas that matter. The manufacturer is touting 30 percent improved range, 50 percent reduction of production cost and 60 percent reduction in carbon emissions, as well as an integration of the battery pack as a part of the car’s structure.
Volkswagen Group has announced it is postponing its decision on where to build a planned battery cell gigafactory in eastern Europe beyond 2022.
The automaker cited economic uncertainty and high energy prices when making the announcement on December 8. In a statement to Reuters, the company said it is still evaluating sites for its future battery gigafactory.
Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) and SK On (SK Innovation's lithium-ion battery subsidiary branch) announced that their new EV battery manufacturing facility will be built in Bartow County, Georgia.
The details of the partnership are still in development (MOU was announced in late November), but it's already known that the two South Korean companies intend to invest approximately $4-5 billion, which indicates a large battery factory.
A significant reduction in the order backlog was noted in the US.
Tesla's estimated global electric car order backlog has been quickly decreasing for several months now and most recently it dropped below 200,000 units.
Honda Motor Company announced an agreement with China's Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to purchase 123 GWh of batteries for pure electric vehicles from 2024 through 2030.
Europe has committed to being a climate-neutral society by 2050.1 This is an ambitious target, which has been complicated by the energy crisis and the Ukraine conflict, as well as efforts to replace the import of Russian gas.
Esta semana ha sido más fácil explicar Hispania Antigua a mis alumnos del Diploma en Arqueología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Navarra. Quienes nos dedicamos a la Antigüedad nos pasamos horas tratando de hacer ver a nuestros estudiantes la importancia que tiene cada nuevo dato arqueológico, pero, sobre todo -pues es lo propio del método histórico en Historia Antigua- el poder de los documentos escritos del mundo clásico.
Getting to the crux of his work on the Employee Experience Research Stream at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Nick van der Meulen poses a rhetorical question: “In general, nothing happens in our organizations without our employees, right?” Groundwork in place, he continues, “So how can organizations create an environment where employees can do their best work?”
When you use self-checkout machines in supermarkets and drugstores, you are probably not — with all due respect — doing a better job of bagging your purchases than checkout clerks once did. Automation just makes bagging less expensive for large retail chains.
It’s no secret that people harbor biases — some unconscious, perhaps, and others painfully overt. The average person might suppose that computers — machines typically made of plastic, steel, glass, silicon, and various metals — are free of prejudice. While that assumption may hold for computer hardware, the same is not always true for computer software, which is programmed by fallible humans and can be fed data that is, itself, compromised in certain respects.
