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Residents of the Chinese city of Hefei now have their very own traveling convenience store, selling everything from candy to veggies. Swedish start-up Wheelys developed the Moby Mart in cooperation with Hefei University and retail company Himalafy. Incredibly, the Moby Mart store operates 24/7 and all without any humans manning the store. Moby Mart offers basic groceries, such as milk, bread, fruit and coffee, which are only available to customers which have downloaded the Moby Mart app. Customers connect their card to the app so that Moby Mart technolgy can scan their purchase and charge them automatically. The app even allows customers to call the store to their location. Could this be the future of grocery shopping?
A Silicon Valley based firm called Lucid Motors unveiled their high-end electric vehicle prototype dubbed Lucid Air, in Fremont, California, on Wednesday. The new company hopes to tap into the growing popularity of electric cars and aims to challenge Elon Musk's automaker Tesla for electric vehicle customers. Lucid Motors claim that their Air prototype electric car has a range of over 400 miles on a single charge and can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 second. A 100 kilowatt engine will generate up to 1,000 horsepower. Loaded with options, the Lucid Air is expected to hit the market sometime in 2018 at a luxury price point of around $100,000.
Le constructeur suédois Volvo Cars tire profit des capacités de la montre connectée Band 2 de l'Américain Microsoft pour commander à distance le chauffage, les vitres ou la navigation de la voiture. "Nous n’innovons pas pour le plaisir d’innover. Lorsqu’un système ne rend pas la vie de nos clients plus facile, plus belle, plus sûre et plus agréable, nous ne le retenons pas. Mais honnêtement : qui n’a pas rêvé de parler à sa voiture à travers un bracelet comme dans les films ?", s’interroge Klas Bendrik, Vice-Président senior et Directeur des technologies de l’information chez Volvo Car Group. Pas sûr toutefois que tout le monde apprécie de jouer les David Hasselhoff en public : balayer du doigt l'écran de son smartphone est autrement plus discret.
"Global markets are now flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars" says European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, "and their price is kept artificially low by huge state subsidies". The comments -- made to the European Parliament in Strasbourg -- come as Brussels announces it will investigate Chinese state subsidies for electric vehicles in order to protect the European market from "distortion." SOUNDBITE
Moscow, Aug 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yuri Kochetkov) Starting Thursday, the Russian capital will host the exhibition '100 Years of Italian Style Cars of Nuccio Bertone' .The exhibition features a collection of cars from the 1950s to 2010s produced by the Bertone body shop.FOOTAGE OF THE SHOW.
Miami (US), Apr 30 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Cristóbal Herrera) Like a time capsule, the Dauer Museum of Classic Cars in Sunrise, South Florida (USA), houses an impressive collection of old vehicles manufactured from the first years of the 20th century or, in other words, a piece of the "history of industrialization", as its owner says.FOOTAGE OF THE MUSEUM.SOUNDBITES OF EDWARD DAUER, CREATOR OF THE MUSEUM.
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