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Hyundai completes South Korea’s first domestic autonomous truck highway journey

  Hyundai Motor Company has completed South Korea’s first domestic highway journey with an autonomously navigated semi-trailer truck. Hyundai’s Xcient truck drove approximately 40km on the highway between Uiwang and Incheon, carrying a large semi-trailer simulating cargo transportation, showcasing Hyundai’s innovative technological advancement in future mobility.  Hyundai continuously invests in ...

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Mission accomplished as the whole world visits Mercedes-Benz Museum

It was really a mission accomplished, Wednesday, August 22, 2018, as the Mercedes-Benz Museum team was finally able to say: “we have welcomed the whole world at our museum”, when they greeted visitors from Guyana and from the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis. People from each of the 193 member states ...

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Hyundai’s partnership makes Revv India’s fastest growing self-drive car sharing company 

Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, has announced a partnership with Revv, India’s fastest growing self-drive car sharing company to develop an innovative car sharing service and conduct creative marketing activities in India. The strategic partnership including Hyundai Motor’s investment to Revv sees innovative future mobility services gain the ...

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Milestone: Flight around the world with Mercedes-Benz 20-hp aircraft engine

It is the early morning on 11 August 1928. Friedrich Karl Freiherr Koenig von und zu Warthausen, barely 22 years old, takes off for his record-setting flight from Berlin-Tempelhof to Moscow. He has named his Klemm-Daimler light aircraft “Kamerad”, the German word for “companion”. “I circled the airfield twice to say ...

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Global first for Land Rover at Wheelchair Rugby World Championships

Land Rover has further strengthened its commitment to international rugby with a world-first sponsorship agreement. The Rugby World Cup 2019™ Worldwide Partner is now a major sponsor of the Wheelchair Rugby World Championships too – the first time a backer has supported both tournaments. The new deal began at the ...

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Five technologies which make the All-new Ford Escape the Ideal Suburban SUV for Nigerian consumers

  Recently launched by Coscharis Motors, the exclusive distributor of Ford vehicles in Nigeria, the all-new Ford Escape delivers bold styling, unmatched capability, and refinement in the mid-size SUV segment. Ford engineers have also packed the Escape with modern connectivity and driver-assist features that make every drive easier, safer and more ...

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1,000 entrepreneurs storm Heritage Bank’s Next Titans audition in Lagos

The Lagos audition of the Heritage Bank Plc’s foremost entrepreneurial reality TV show, the Next Titan, was held with no fewer than 1,000 contestants in attendance. The enthusiastic contestants trooped to Excellence Hotel, Ogba, venue of the audition weekend, with expectation that luck would smile on them to win. Overwhelmed ...

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Heritage Bank, HIS, Tuchi partner on affordable mass transit in Lagos

Relief is on the way for the estimated over 7 million passengers plying Lagos roads on a daily basis, as Heritage Investment Services Limited (HIS), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tuchi Technologies Nigeria Limited to provide affordable mass transit for commuters in Lagos metropolis. Heritage Bank Plc ...

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Heritage Bank achieves PCI DSS Version 3.2 recertification

Heritage Bank Plc, has attained recertification of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 3.2, having achieved the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO 27001:2013 re-certification recently. With its legacy of innovation, the recertification reaffirms the bank’s leading position in the payment card industry in Nigeria, as first ...

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Isuzu’s chief warms up for IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship

  Port Elizabeth – CEO by day, Ironman in the early mornings, after work and on weekends. This can be said of Isuzu Motors South Africa Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Michael Sacke, who will be participating in the upcoming Isuzu IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship, taking place on 1 ...

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