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Following Volvo and Ford, Renault aims to spin off its EV business into a separate company

May 16, 2022
Last week, French company Renault announced its plan to fully review spinning off its electric car business into a separate company in 2023, in hopes of catching up with rivals Tesla and Volkswagen. Renault said that the new EV spin-off could bring on board 10,000 new employees by 2023, and its business model would be “adapted to the specificities of electric vehicles and would be able to…
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Quick Charge Podcast: May 14, 2022

May 15, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Tesla abandons plans to enter the Indian market for now

May 13, 2022
Tesla has officially abandoned its effort to enter the Indian market and even started to reassign local employees. The automaker couldn’t get the government to change its mind on high import tariffs for foreign electric vehicles. India has the biggest auto market that Tesla has yet to enter. For years, Elon Musk said that Tesla’s launch in India was imminent, but strong import tariffs have…
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Autonomous cargo ship completes 500 mile voyage, avoiding hundreds of collisions

May 13, 2022
The “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500 mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99% of the trip. The 750 gross-ton vessel was powered by Orca AI, whose software helped the ship avoid hundreds of collisions autonomously. Orca AI is a developer of safety software platforms designed…
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