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A man has been charged with drink-driving after crashing into his friend who has also been charged with the same offence. Natasha Nancel, a 24-year-old from Nashville in the US state of Tennessee, crashed her car into a ditch on Thursday about 12.04am (local time), according to an affidavit obtained by Scoop Nasvhille. Prosecutor Dillon Hunt wrote alcohol was smelt on her breath, and Nancel had stated she drank a glass of wine and an espresso martini at a bar before the crash. Mr Hunt claims… Source link

While China turns to local brands of EV over Tesla, Indonesia’s natural resources show great potential for its battery manufacturing industry. Asia is starting to look like it may overtake the U.S. and Europe in the electric vehicle market as the effects of the global pandemic are steadily improving.  Consumer research carried out by CNBC suggests that Chinese consumers are primarily concerned about price and driving range when considering EVs. In 2020, despite the fall in demand in the… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Letter to Break Months of Silence Amid Tumult in U.S. (Bloomberg) — While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue.He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks that’s gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual… Source link

Google and Ford are teaming up in an alliance meant to “reinvent” virtually every aspect of the car business, from the way vehicles are designed, engineered and assembled to the way customers shop and then experience their vehicles. Among other things, motorists will be able to download features they might not originally have purchased, as well as new safety and infotainment technology that wasn’t originally available, Ford and Google officials said during a Monday morning news… Source link

Benzinga The Upcoming Catalyst That Could Move Chinese EV Stocks Nio, Xpeng, Li Auto Chinese electric vehicle stocks have seen some moderation in momentum in recent sessions. One upcoming catalyst could lift the stocks out of this lackluster phase: the January delivery numbers that are due next week. Finding The Sweet Spot In China’s EV Market: China is a hot EV market, both from the perspective of the addressable market opportunity and supply. “China is a greenfield EV market opportunity for… Source link

As the city of San Jose and Google move toward transforming the city’s downtown, residents are casting wary eyes on their plans to reduce car traffic and address homelessness in the area. Downtown Councilmember Raul Peralez, whose district encompasses downtown, hosted a community meeting for San Jose’s Diridon Station Area Plan (DSAP) and Google’s Downtown West project on Wednesday. It marked the beginning of the city’s public outreach for the plan in 2021, as well as the end of an… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski leaves the federal court after his arraignment hearing in San Jose, California, U.S. August 27, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc’s rival unit. Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski leaves the federal court after his arraignment hearing in San Jose, California, U.S. August 27, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc’s rival unit. Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link

Anthony Levandowski stood at the center of the race between Google and Uber to build self-driving cars. He was there at the beginning of Google’s program in 2009. By the time it became Waymo in 2016, he’d left, founded a self-driving truck company called Otto, and sold that (in 2016) to Uber for $600 million. He was eventually indicted on dozens of federal charges, accused of stealing 14,000 files containing Google’s self-driving trade secrets. In August, Levandowski was sentenced to 18… Source link