Wholesale shipments of new vehicles expanded 14 percent to 1.98 million last month after slumping 35 percent in January, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Friday.\nFebruary shipments of light vehicles including sedans, crossovers, SUVs, multi-purpose vehicles and minibuses rose 11 percent to 1.65 million.\nDuring the month, shipments of all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids rallied 44 percent and 98 percent to 376,000 and 149,000, respectively.\nOverall, electrified vehicle shipments advanced 21 percent to approach 933,000 so far this year through February.\nShipments of EVs jumped 8.4 percent to around 662,000 in January and February while sales of plug-in hybrids surged 69 percent to approximately 270,000.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"BMW building hydrogen-powered demo fleet of iX5s","slug":"bmw-building-hydrogen-powered-demo-fleet-of-ix5s","publishDate":"2023-03-10 17:38:18-05:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:58.348942","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"A few months after it began building the fuel cells for the BMW iX5, the automaker has officially launched the first batch of hydrogen-fueled sport utilities.\nBMW is just one of a handful, along with Toyota and Hyundai, to have developed passenger cars powered by hydrogen amid a significant turn toward EVs in the past year.\nThe BMW iX5 couples fuel cells made by Toyota with what is essentially an EV drivetrain borrowed from the BMW iX, along with a small 2.0-kWh lithium-ion battery.\nThe result is an output of 395 hp, with the 16 pounds of hydrogen aboard giving the sport utility a range of 310 miles in the WLTP cycle.\nInstead, like many others before them including the 7-Series hydrogen cars, the iX5 will be part of an eventual fleet of fewer than 100 units that will be used for demonstration purposes.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"How Dubai Police use biometric technology to fight crime","slug":"how-dubai-police-use-biometric-technology-to-fight-crime","publishDate":"2023-03-10 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:58.008144","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Dubai Police are using cutting-edge technology to ensure there is no such thing as the perfect crime.\nWhile facial recognition and fingerprint technology is used by police around the world, there are other ways to catch criminals.\nDubai Police said the advanced technology, which they have used since 2016, helped officers to make more than 3,000 arrests last year.\nLt Col Dr Al Awar said Dubai Police used the technology to help other forces in the UAE.\nChris Whiteoak / The NationalBuilding a DNA databasePolice have also used technology to crack unsolved cases from the past.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Dealers and students connect and learn at Dealer Huddle East VI","slug":"dealers-and-students-connect-and-learn-at-dealer-huddle-east-vi","publishDate":"2023-03-10 13:14:42-05:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:57.381914","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Tier Six held its Dealer Huddle East VI event on March 8 at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario.\nThe VIP Automotive event is part of a series devoted to the future of Canadian automotive, particularly the trends, marketing, and workforce of the next generation.\nThey all shared ways that automotive dealers could better prepare for tomorrow today.\nOnce it’s software, basically a smartphone on wheels, it’s an entirely different world.”Many spoke about ways to improve your customers’ journey.\nWhy can’t dealers make it frictionless when purchasing a car?” shared Omar Khan from BLVD Agency.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Which Stores Are Scanning Your Face? No One Knows.","slug":"which-stores-are-scanning-your-face-no-one-knows","publishDate":"2023-03-10 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:56.651098","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Even though she had expected it to happen, Ms. Garcia found the deployment of facial recognition technology to punish corporate enemies alarming.\nThe City Council convened a hearing last month to discuss how Madison Square Garden and other local businesses were using the technology.\nMadison Square Garden hadn’t sent a representative, as requested.\n(A spokeswoman for Madison Square Garden said the organization thought its view — that the technology provides a safe and secure environment — was represented by others there.)\nNeither had a “biometric identifier information” disclosure, so presumably they weren’t using facial recognition technology.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Ford decides to recall 18 new Lightning pickup trucks for battery defects","slug":"ford-decides-to-recall-18-new-lightning-pickup-trucks-for-battery-defects","publishDate":"2023-03-10 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:56.022259","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"A battery cell manufacturing defect occurred over a four-week period starting at the end of last year, Ford spokeswoman Emma Bergg told the Detroit Free Press.\nFord is not aware of any reports of accident or injury related to this 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning recall, Bergg said.\nWhen asked the root cause of the battery issue, she said the battery production process created \"a potential for an internal short circuit.\nBergg told the Free Press on Friday that the automaker \"recently discovered\" the affected vehicles had been delivered.\nCustomers may continue to drive and charge their vehicles, Bergg said, however tucks should be taken for repair as soon as possible.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in deep learning tasks","slug":"outperforms-state-of-the-art-algorithms-in-deep-learning-tasks","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:56.006962","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Newswise — Deep learning based semi-supervised learning algorithms have shown promising results in recent years.\nTheir Meta-Semi approach outperforms state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning algorithms.\n“Most deep learning based semi-supervised learning algorithms introduce multiple tunable hyper-parameters, making them less practical in real semi-supervised learning scenarios where the labeled data is scarce for extensive hyper-parameter search,” said Huang.\n“Empirically, Meta-Semi outperforms state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning algorithms significantly on the challenging semi-supervised CIFAR-100 and STL-10 tasks, and achieves competitive performance on CIFAR-10 and SVHN,” said Huang.\nCompared to existing deep semi-supervised learning algorithms, Meta-Semi requires much less effort for tuning hyper-parameters, but achieves state-of-the-art performance on the four competitive datasets.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Renault picks managers to prepare EV business for IPO","slug":"renault-picks-managers-to-prepare-ev-business-for-ipo","publishDate":"2023-03-10 11:45:04-05:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-11 14:30:55.726682","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Renault CEO Luca de Meo has picked officials including a former Apple executive to help him prepare the Ampere electric-vehicle business for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the situation.\nDe Meo has already selected around 15 in-house managers for the Ampere project he is leading, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing internal company matters.\nThe managers are still busy with the entity's carve out and will also continue in their day-to-day jobs, they said.\nRenault is in the middle of a sweeping overhaul to raise funds for EV development and narrow the gap with bigger rival Stellantis.\nRenault is aiming for a roughly 10 billion euros ($10.6 billion) valuation, Bloomberg reported in November.
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