According to documents filed with the state government, Tesla Inc plans on building a battery research and manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, which will be operated around the clock, under a project dubbed Roadrunner. The plan underscores efforts being made by the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) maker to create their own automotive batteries, which incidentally…
A law suit launched against Renault and Nissan has alleged that up to about 1.4 million vehicles of the companies that had been sold in Britain were potentially equipped with illegal defeat devices. The listed vehicle models as mentioned in the law suit includes a petrol-powered version of Nissan Qashqai which is one of the…
The Italian government has confirmed a 6.3-billion euro ($7.1 billion) loan to Fiat Chrysler’s Italian business unit by approving a decree offering the government’s guarantees for the loan, said reports quoting source information. That has now ensured the path for the largest novel coronavirus pandemic related loan to any European car making company. The decree…
Nvidia Corp has entered into a deal with Daimler to develop and equip Mercedes-Benz cars with next generation graphic chips and software platform that could eventually be used for autonomous driving functions. The alliance allows Mercedes to jointly develop new automated driving capabilities and software applications and comes at a time when the auto industry…
An almost 15 year dependency on Intel Corp over supplying of processors for its flagship laptops and desktop was ended by Apple Inc on Monday when it announced that the company would be using its own chips for its Mac computers. This development marked the beginning of a major new era for a product line…
An extension of a halt in issuing of green cards as well as a suspension of visas for foreign workers being allowed in the United States till 2020 announced by President Donald Trump. The new visa policy announced by Trump is expected to affect a high-skilled tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and top…
SoftBank has now kick started its program for sale of assets as the Japanese firm has announced earlier, as the firm started offloading its stake in T-Mobile. The plans of the Japanese tech conglomerate is to sell off more than 198 million shares of stocks of T-Mobile with is worth a total of $21 billion,…
Starting with a fashion show in Italy in July, all of the scheduled fashion shows for this calendar year would be pushed to be concluded by the French luxury label Christian Dior. However the brand also made it clear that the coveted front row of those shows would empty which means that A-listers of the…
In a significant development, Gilead Sciences Inc said, it expects to be able to produce twice the quantity of its coronavirus fighting drug remdesivir to COVID-19 patients by the end of this year. It expects to serve to at least 2 million COVID-19 patients by this time frame. Gilead hopes to start trials of an…
Microsoft has supported the calls for conducting an antitrust investigation into the alleged monopolistic practices at App Store which has put more pressure on Apple. Earlier this month, the policy of Apple to take a 30 per cent cut from antitrust investigation that the iPhone maker takes to allow the developers to sell their products…
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