EV maker Nio to build 1,000 battery-swap stations in China in 2023
By Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup Nio Inc plans to build 1,000 battery-swapping stations in China in 2023 to bring the total…
Meet the talent: Nikolaos Manitaris, Art and Technical Director
Age: 34 Place of residence: Thessaloniki Position : Art and Technical Director Please describe a day in your life : I wake up in the morning, make my coffee, and open the…
China lifts 18-month ban on new Didi users as tech crackdown wanes
By Julie Zhu and Yingzhi Yang (Reuters) – China‘s Didi Global has been given the green light from domestic regulators to resume new user registrations for its core ride-hailing services…
Microsoft in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT owner
By Aarati Krishna (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is in talks to invest $10 billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, which will value the San Francisco-based firm at $29 billion,…
BMW teases a talking car that shifts colors like a chameleon
By Joseph White LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – BMW AG has unveiled a prototype for a car that talks like a human being, changes colors to suit the driver’s mood and…
New York City buying more than 900 EVs for government fleets
By David Shepardson (Reuters) – New York said on Wednesday it will replace more than 900 city-owned fossil-fuel powered vehicles with electric models and install 315 additional EV charging ports…
Baidu, Pony.ai start driverless robotaxi tests in Beijing
By Kevin Krolicki (Reuters) – Baidu Inc and Toyota Motor Corp-backed startup Pony. ai said on Friday they been granted the first licences to test fully autonomous vehicles without safety…
Sony and Honda to add a PS5 in their upcoming electric car
Sony and Honda are planning to stick a PS5 in their upcoming autonomous electric car, enabling drivers to enjoy their favourite games even inside their vehicle. Last March, Sony Group…
Indonesia considers $320 million in incentives to boost EV sales in 2023
By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia may allocate 5 trillion rupiah ($320.41 million) from next year’s budget to incentivise electric vehicle (EV) purchases, though details of the scheme were…
ClickHouse Launches Cloud Offering For World’s Fastest OLAP Database Management System
ClickHouse, Inc, creators of the online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system, announced the general availability of their newest offering, ClickHouse Cloud, a lightning-fast cloud-based database that simplifies and accelerates…