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BMW Manufacturing To Bring Figure General Purpose Humanoid Robots Into Spartanburg Plant

Figure, a California-based company developing autonomous humanoid robots, signed a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC to deploy general purpose robots in automotive manufacturing environments. Figure’s humanoid robots enable the automation of difficult, unsafe, or tedious tasks throughout the manufacturing process, which in turn allows employees to focus on…

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GM and EV Connect Enable Plug and Charge Capabilities for GM EV Drivers

Expanding its collaboration with General Motors, EV Connect announced the availability of Plug and Charge on the EV Connect network through GM vehicle brand apps. GM drivers can now simply plug in and charge their vehicles on the EV Connect network without swiping a payment card or scanning an RFID…

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Project SiKuBa Developing Safer Plastic Battery Housings

A research consortium including Farasis Energy, Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG (supplier of energy storage systems) and the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI is working to make plastic-based battery housings safer by means of virtual design and thus increase the safety of electric vehicles. Farasis, a developer…

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BMW Group’s Munich Plant To Produce Exclusively All-Electric Models From the End of 2027

Beginning in 2026, BMW Group Plant Munich will produce the Neue Klasse sedan. Just one year later, the factory will manufacture nothing but all-electric models, making the Munich plant the first location in the BMW Group’s existing production network successfully to have completed the transformation to E-mobility from the end…

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