The company MMC Automotriz S.A., through its Hyundai brand, presented in Caracas its first 100% electric vehicle with high technology, the Hyundai Kona 2022, a crossover SUV that will be available for sale in the Venezuelan market from July 15.

The Kona 2022 model is a “second generation crossover SUV” car, which enjoys great approval in Europe and from next July it will be available in the national market “in its 39.2 KWH and 64 KWH version” which It will be marketed upon request with approximately 6 months for delivery.

The 2022 Kona model is a front-wheel drive vehicle, with a “135 Hp engine and 395 N.m torque” that allows it to go from “0 to 100 Kph in just 9.9 seconds”. In addition, it has an independence of “305 Kms in its 39.2 KWH version and 201 Hp with a range of 484 Kms. for the 64KWH version”.

Hyundai’s Commercial Vice President, José Vicente Gómez, explained that as of July 15, users will be able to go to the network of authorized dealers in the country where they will be able to ask for the financing option.

Other models

The Hyundai Venezuela brand will also offer the new 2022 car collection in the “Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai Grand i10, Palisade, Santa Fe, Sonata and Elantra models.”

M. Rodríguez

With information from Hyundai Venezuela

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BMW Chairman of the Board of Directors Oliver Zipse highlighted that BMW is on a very good path with the transformation process, prepared its plants for electromobility and expects further growth in sales in 2022. “That is why over the next year we will increase our number of employees up to five percent, “said Zipse.

One of the reasons, he pointed out, is the high demand for electric models. “Our i4 has been sold for months now, as has the iX,” Zipse said. “Next year the electric seventh will be no different,”.  However, admitted the president of BMW, the lack of charging stations constitutes a brake. “In Europe, the number of electric cars is currently growing five times faster than infrastructure.”

For that reason, he also said he was against banning internal combustion engines: “That would inevitably lead Germany’s largest industry into a contraction scenario.” Zipse called for CO2 targets to be tied to binding targets for charging infrastructure.

Meanwhile, he estimated that the lack of semiconductors could have come to an end within a year thanks to the investments of the car manufacturers themselves: “I hope that by the end of next year we will have a practically normal situation.“

Source: dpa

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The multinational company Nvidia, developed a series of robotic AI brains  in 2018 and recently unveiled its new module called Jetson AGX Orin, which has a processing power six times faster than its predecessor Xavier and a super reduced size.

The new Orin was created to be a “low-power AI supercomputer”, especially for use in “robotics, autonomous and medical devices, as well as extreme AI applications that currently don’t seem possible.”

Robotics has very specialized procedures and requires a chip called a brain with a very high processing capacity, capable of executing about “200 billion operations per second“, capable of performing various AI applications with efficient energy consumption.

Orin was made with an “Nvidia Ampere GPU architecture” characterized by an Arm Cortex-A78AE chip, with “Deep Learning specifications, vision accelerators and the ability to run multiple Artificial Intelligence apps”.

Nvidia has long tried to lead in the field of autonomous cars and estimates that the Jetson AGX Orin will be released in the first months of next year, although the exact date and price at which it will be marketed is unknown.

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Source: tekcrispy.com

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The Australian and UK authorities plan to ratify their free trade agreement before the end of the year, according to the director of the British Australian Chamber of Commerce, David McCredie, in an interview with Sky News Australia.

“We are very close to achieve it; we have not come (to finish it) yet, but … I do not think it is very far at all,” said McCredie.

UK authorities already announced an agreement in principle in June, in an attempt by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delve into the country’s economic relations with third nations after Brexit, although the text has not yet been ratified.

Under the terms of the pact, tariffs would be eliminated on British products such as cars, Scotch whiskey, biscuits and ceramics, which would be cheaper to sell in Australia.

According to McCredie, both parties see the agreement as an opportunity not only to strengthen commercial ties, but to “really encourage (…) investment and mobility between the two countries.”

Source: dpa

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The automaker Tesla sold 241,300 cars in the third quarter of 2021, which is equivalent to 102,000 more cars than last year in the same period, despite the sharp drop in sales recorded by the sector due to shortages in chip production.

For its part, General Motors, the largest US automaker, sold 446,997 in this third quarter, which represents a decline of the order of 33 % compared to the same period last year.

Tesla has managed to overcome the crisis in the sector and has introduced to the market a figure never before registered. “It is the most that Tesla has sold in a quarter and for an additional perspective, the company sold 367,500 in all of 2019″, highlighted its representatives.

To address the problem caused by the absence of chips, the car company has sought other options by sourcing “different semiconductors and rewriting software on the fly so that those chips work instead of those that are not currently available.”

Additionally, the company continues to report large sales in China, where it began operations in early 2020. Its SUV model has become one of the most popular in the United States and recently began sales in Europe.

The automobile company plans to increase its production in the coming months and for this it has already built a large part of its factory in Austin, Texas. In addition, it is already “passing some of the latest approvals to start operating its new plant on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. That’s despite delaying some products, like the Cybertruck and Roadster second-generation.”

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Source: quenube.com

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The head of the German automaker BMW, Oliver Zipse, presented a car made entirely from waste material and renewable raw materials.

The company aims to become “the most sustainable vehicle manufacturer in the world”, Zipse said at the Munich Motor Show (IAA).

According to Zipse, the BMW i Vision Circular is not simply a design study, but “a way of thinking, with which we develop the new class”, the architecture of electric cars for model generations from 2025.

The body of the small car is made of recycled and unpainted aluminum and steel. “This way you can get back on track again,” said BMW chief designer Adrian van Hooydonk.

Chrome, double frames and decorations were omitted, while the BMW logo was simply laser etched into the metal.

Also inside the vehicle there is no chrome or leather, but exclusively recycled material. Where the materials are put together, they are joined with connectors and screws, so that during the scrapping of the car they can be easily separated and reused.

The BMW designer explained that clients with high purchasing power and others who ascended socially were increasingly demanding responsible consumption.

The automaker made the circular economy its leitmotif at the IAA and wants to demonstrate with the i Vision Circular that customer demands for luxury and lifestyle can also be met with a car made from recycled materials.

K. Tovar

Source: Autonocion

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The German car manufacturer BMW announced that it will keep cuts due to the crisis caused by the pandemic and the high prices of raw materials. They will reduce production costs per vehicle by 25 % until 2025.

Production manager Milan Nedeljkovic said that this decrease in costs will be compared to the level of 2019. To do this, he added, they will use software for better planning of the manufacturing process, more austere logistics and better use of existing plants.

The company estimates that this year it will face price increases of raw materials of up to one billion euros (about 1.19 billion dollars), because after the pandemic crisis many raw materials and semi-finished products are scarce and difficult to deliver, among others, steel.

He argued that, due to problems in the supply of electronic chips, BMW this year has a delay in the production of 30,000 cars, which the company plans to recover in the second half of the year.

Nedeljkovic recalled that a program of cuts from the time before the pandemic is still in force, which between 2019 and 2022 sought to lower costs by 12,000 million euros and the elimination of thousands of jobs. In addition, the reduction of the diversity of variants was planned, to simplify production.

The chairman of the board of directors, Oliver Zipse, foresees an increase in deliveries of between five and 10 % by 2021 to reach the 2019 level with some 2.5 million vehicles. In the medium term, he said, he aspires this decade still reaches three million vehicles.

The switch to electric motors could work in favor of production cost reduction from 2025. BMW wants to have 13 fully electric models on the streets by 2023.

Starting in 2025, the so-called “new class” will replace previous technical designs and will focus mainly on electric motors. By 2030, the company aims for half of the cars it sells worldwide to be equipped with an electric motor.

Source: dpa

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