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Electronics Rush To Auto Continues – LG And Cerence Sign MOU

January 15, 2020 by Jonathan Custer

Last week we posted the video, Sony Builds A Car. The trend continues with traditional consumer tech companies desperate to get into the automobile industry. LG and Cerence Inc. – which recently spun off from Nuance Communications – have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a new software solution that integrates LG’s webOS Auto …

COTD: Global Vehicle Structure of Production

November 12, 2019 by Jonathan Custer

COTD = Chart of the Day The automobile sector is a globally interconnected industry with a large economic footprint. The size of the sector’s gross output (that is, the sum of its value-added and intermediate consumption) is about 5.7 percent of global output, according to the World Input-Output Database (Timmer and others 2015). Vehicles and related …