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BBC Innovation | Technology, Health, Environment, AI

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BBC Innovation brings you the latest in Technology news and coverage from around the world, including health, environment, AI, and more

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site sur les avancées scientifiques

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Our transportation system is outdated and broken-and it needs to change.

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Site d'information pour apprendre l'anglais

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Voice of America - Learn American English with VOA Learning English

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Learn American English with English language lessons from Voice of America. VOA Learning English helps you learn English with vocabulary, listening and comprehension lessons through daily news and interactive English learning activities.

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Page concentrée principalement sur les voitures électriques

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Driving.co.uk at The Sunday Times: Car reviews, news and features

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Driving.co.uk is your destination for daily motoring news, features, advice, reviews and video. Created by The Sunday Times, home of Jeremy Clarkson.

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formation dans le secteur de l'automobile

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When you choose the Automotive Training Centre for career-specific education, you're joining the ranks of thousands of other Canadian success stories. For more than 3 decades individuals just like you have started their professional careers equipped with the confidence, skills and hands-on knowledge provided by our high quality experienced caring staff. The Automotive Training Centre has been helping adults transform their lives through professional technical training for more than 35 years offering a wide variety of professional automotive programs.

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When you choose the Automotive Training Centre for career-specific education, you're joining the ranks of thousands of other Canadian success stories. For more than 3 decades individuals just like you have started their professional careers equipped with the confidence, skills and hands-on knowledge provided by our high quality experienced caring staff. The Automotive Training Centre has been helping adults transform their lives through professional technical training for more than 35 years offering a wide variety of professional automotive programs.

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Auto Mechanic Training School | Automotive Training Centre

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When you choose the Automotive Training Centre for career-specific education, you're joining the ranks of thousands of other Canadian success stories. For more than 3 decades individuals just like you have started their professional careers equipped with the confidence, skills and hands-on knowledge provided by our high quality experienced caring staff.

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Articles donnant des conseils de carrière

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Whether you're looking to change careers or simply want to know what interview questions to prepare for, this is the place for career advice and tips.

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Informations chiffrées sur les entreprises de l'industrie automobile

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The automotive industry is a crucial part of the global economy, producing vehicles that efficiently transport people and goods not only within nations but across entire regions. These companies manufacture vehicles such as cars, trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Some even produce motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, as well as commercial vehicles like transport trucks and buses. The biggest auto manufacturers have an unusually large global footprint, selling vehicles to consumers and businesses throughout the world. These big companies are mainly headquartered in just a few countries that lead the industry -- Japan, Germany, and the U.S. -- but the list of the 10 biggest also includes one car company from Italy and one from South Korea.

We look in detail below at the 10 biggest car companies by 12-month trailing (TTM) revenue. Some companies outside the U.S. report profits semi-annually instead of quarterly, so the 12-month trailing data may be older than it is for companies that report quarterly. This list is limited to companies which are publicly traded in the U.S. or Canada, either directly or through ADRs. Data is courtesy of YCharts.com.﻿﻿ All figures are as of September 10.

Revenue (TTM): $248.6 billion

Net Income (TTM): $14.4 billion

Market Cap: $183.3 billion

1-Year Trailing Total Return: 1.8%

Exchange: New York Stock Exchange

Toyota is a Japan-based multinational. It was the first foreign manufacturer to build a dominant market share in the U.S. automobile market by setting the industry standard for efficiency and quality. Toyota designs and manufactures cars, trucks, minivans, and commercial vehicles. Vehicle models include the Corolla, Camry, 4Runner, Tacoma, and the Prius, the hybrid electric sedan. Lexus is the company's luxury car division. Toyota also produces parts and accessories, and provides financing to dealers and their customers.

Volkswagen is a Germany-based multinational automotive manufacturing company. It develops and produces passenger cars, trucks, and light commercial vehicles such as buses. Vehicle models include the Tiguan, Golf, Jetta, Passat, and more. The company stopped making its once-popular Volkswagen Beetle compact car last year due to falling demand for smaller cars. Volkswagen's best known luxury brands are Porsche and Audi. The company also manufactures parts, and offers customer financing and fleet management services.

Daimler is a Germany-based multinational automobile manufacturer. The company manufactures passenger cars, vans, off-road vehicles, and commercial vehicles, such as transport trucks and buses. It produces vehicles under a number of different brands, including Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, Western Star, smart, and more. Daimler also offers financing and leasing packages for customers and dealers.

Ford is a multinational automotive manufacturer. The company develops, manufactures, and services cars, SUVs, vans, and trucks. Vehicle models include the Fusion, Mustang, Edge, Escape, F-150, Ranger, and more. The company also provides vehicle-related financing and leasing.

Honda is a Japan-based multinational automobile company. It manufactures passenger cars, trucks, vans, all-terrain vehicles, and motorcycles, as well as related parts. Vehicle models include the Civic, Accord, Insight Hybrid, Passport, Odyssey, Fit and more. Acura is the company's luxury car division. The company also provides financial and insurance services.

Bayerische Motoren Werke, known as BMW, is a German-based multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles. The company designs and manufactures vehicles under several brands, including BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. The company also offers spare parts and accessories and provides credit financing, leasing, and other services to retail customers.

General Motors is a multinational automobile manufacturer. The company designs and manufactures cars, trucks, and automobile parts. It has been a leader in the development of electric cars, first with the Chevy Volt and its successor, the Chevy Bolt. It operates under four major vehicle brands, which are GMC, Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick. The company also offers automotive financing.

Fiat Chrysler is an Italy-based multinational automotive company. It designs and manufacturers passenger automobiles and light commercial vehicles. The company operates under several brands, including Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and more. The company also produces automotive-related components, metallurgical products, and production systems, and offers financing services.

Hyundai is a South-Korea based multinational automobile manufacturer. The company designs and manufactures passenger cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles. Vehicle models include the Accent, Elantra, Sonata, Santa Fe, Tucson, and its Genesis luxury division. The company also produces parts, operates auto repair service centers, and provides financing services.

Nissan is a Japan-based multinational automotive company. It designs and manufactures passenger vehicles, forklifts, marine equipment, and related parts. Vehicle models include the Altima, Maxima, Sentra, Versa, Pathfinder, Rogue, Titan, and its LEAF electric car. The company's luxury division is Infiniti. The company also offers financing and leasing services.

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The automotive industry is a crucial part of the global economy, producing vehicles that efficiently transport people and goods not only within nations but across entire regions. These companies manufacture vehicles such as cars, trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Some even produce motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, as well as commercial vehicles like transport trucks and buses.

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On January 23rd 1812, a group of artisans stormed in a textile workshop in Nottingham (UK). Armed with hammers, they smashed the knitting machines that could produce goods 100 times faster than by hand. Most of them were arrested, sentenced to death and hanged at York Castle. They were Luddites, a movement of highly skilled textile artisans that in early XIX century were protesting against the increasing use of machines operated by unskilled workers.

The fear of machines taking our jobs is nothing new; and we can see the exact same thing happening now amplified by Hollywood movies, which generate a rather negative aura around robots. However, Artificial Intelligence is already bringing huge growth from the new types of goods, services and innovations that this technology enables. Indeed, Gartner [1] estimates that AI will generate $2.9 trillion in business value in 2021.

Does it mean that our jobs will be safe? Not at all. Artificial Intelligence will definitely take many of our jobs - 75 million by 2022 according to the World Economic Forum [2]. However, in the same period WEF estimates that 133 million new jobs being created - so there will be a net increase in employment. The mid-term expectation is that most of the repetitive, low-demanding jobs will be gradually taken by machines, while more meaningful jobs that require our unique human skills will arise.

In other words, we won't have a jobs issue but a skills issue, and we have to figure out how we can prepare for these new jobs. We don't have much time, though: by 2022, 54% of the employees will require significant reskilling [2]. There won't be a finish line. Workers will need to change their mindsets and keep upskilling and reskilling throughout their lives. The biggest challenge for policy-makers, businesses and individuals is the societal move towards agile life-long learning.

What will be the most demanded skills by 2022? Analytical thinking, active learning, creativity, tech design, programming, critical thinking, complex problem-solving and leadership.

These transformations, if managed poorly, could widen gaps in society and create greater inequality. However, if they are managed wisely, they could lead to a new age of meaningful jobs and better quality of life.

[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-08-05-gartner-says-ai-augmentation-will-create-2point9-trillion-of-business-value-in-2021
[2] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf

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Artificial Intelligence is expected to destroy millions of repetitive, low-demanding jobs, and create new ones that require our unique human skills. This will challenge policy-makers, companies and ultimately individuals, who will need to change their mindsets and embrace life-long upskilling and reskilling.

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Much has been made in recent weeks of how workers and organizations alike have embraced remote working in the wake of the lockdowns caused by the coronavirus. Indeed, so great is the enthusiasm that - even as governments declare a return to work is safe - many employees remain reluctant to leave their home offices.

What has been rather less remarked upon is the fact that - even for knowledge workers who do most of their work in front of a computer - working from home is not really the same as working in the office. Leaving aside for a moment the fact that the quality of the home working experience largely depends on the home - it is obviously a lot better for somebody with a separate space within their home than for somebody in a house share having to work in their bedroom - remote working throws up a lot more problems than simply worries about employees becoming isolated and concerns about ensuring a corporate culture survives. Chief among these is the fact that - while organizations of all types and sizes demonstrated remarkable agility in switching to remote working almost overnight - the technology often does not work as well remotely as it does in the office. (There is a reason those office buildings are laced with miles of high-tech cabling.)

Just how serious this is is laid bare in a report published this week by 1E, a U.K.-based international software and services company that helps organizations make better use of their technology. The study, The New Digital Workplace, suggests that 36 million American corporate technological devices run more slowly when they are remote, "no doubt crippling employee productivity." Moreover, more than two-thirds of employees questioned said their work was disrupted while IT departments fixed their issue, with a quarter saying they were unable to work at all and nearly three-quarters saying they had to wait up to weeks for their problems to be fixed. In addition to device performance, the other hindrances to productivity were discovered to be network issues and slow-running apps and software.

The research took place among workers in the U.S. and has been modelled against data about knowledge workers and about typical 10,000-employee American corporations. But Sumir Karayi, founder and chief executive of 1E, believes it has lessons for all countries where remote working has suddenly become the default position. "It's a topic that has not been investigated enough," he said in an interview. While he feels remote working is a better way of working, he suggests that the practice has generally had "a positive spin."

One can see what he means. For instance, there has been some discussion of the problem of employees - cut off at home with little else to do - spending longer than they would normally "at work", but little comment that this might be a result of the productivity issues highlighted by the report. Moreover, when even the things that employees used to do while on a break from their screens - such as chat with colleagues - now have to take place via technology the working day is more tiring than it used to be. Meetings have long been the bane of the office worker's life. But many of them would no doubt now give a great deal for a real-life gathering in a conference room as opposed to the current need to sign up for yet more screen time via Zoom, Microsoft Teams or whatever system is in vogue.

However, the good news is that it does not have to be like this. Karayi says in his foreword to the report that the current situation creates "unique opportunities" for a complete rethink of how work is done and for organizations and IT to "create a digital ecosystem that empowers employees to work in whatever way suits them for maximum productivity and engagement." In an effort to stimulate a drive towards what it calls the Work From Anywhere enterprise, 1E is holding a virtual conference at the end of this month.

Clearly, there will be an important role for IT in this brave new world. In being able to shift huge numbers of organizations from essentially traditional ways of working to some form of digital approach in days with little warning, corporate IT teams have obviously done a remarkable job, even if the systems have been groaning under the pressure of performing tasks for which they were not designed. But they cannot be complacent. As Karayi said in his interview they have "got to do a better job." Essentially, IT within organizations also has to go through its own transformation, to be less of a facilities management-type operation and more of a business in itself coming up with better ways of serving the users of the technology and - by extension - the overall business's customers.

At the same time, managers have also got to change. Now that recent weeks have shown to the many doubters in the management cadre that remote working is possible, they have to learn to trust and enable their staff. In Karayi's view, "the big issue is how do we manage people by objectives rather than by time?" Just how far there is to go is demonstrated by the various stories that have emerged during the pandemic of organisations using software to monitor employees' activities. Perhaps the Work From Anywhere conference will offer some insights.

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Remote Working Has Its Problems, But It Points To The Future

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Much has been made in recent weeks of how workers and organizations alike have embraced remote working in the wake of the lockdowns caused by the coronavirus. Indeed, so great is the enthusiasm that - even as governments declare a return to work is safe - many employees remain reluctant to leave their home offices.

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TESLA RANKED HOTTEST PLACE TO WORK FOR YOUNG JOB SEEKERS

Tesla is currently the most sought-after company for young job seekers. According to the Wall Street Journal, "On Handshake, a student career-services app... nine million student and alumni users showed Tesla received more job and internship applications than any other company on the app in the 2016-2017 academic year."
*This article comes to us courtesy of EVANNEX (which also makes aftermarket Tesla accessories). Authored by Matt Pressman. The opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily our own at InsideEVs.

Above: Recent graduates are applying for jobs at Tesla in record-braking numbers (Image: Tesla)
In addition, interest in the company is on the rise. It's reported that, "Tesla collected nearly a half-million applications last year, about double the volume in 2016, according to a company spokeswoman." Cindy Nicola, vice president of global recruiting at Tesla, told the Wall Street Journal, "Our interest from candidates continues to grow year over year."

And new employees often eschew larger salary packages from other companies in order to work at Tesla. One example cited was 29-year-old "Kiran Karunakaran says he was making $80,000 a year at a Philadelphia electronics company when Tesla offered him $95,000 and stock options to become an engineer in 2015. Though Apple made him a $115,000 offer around the same time... Mr. Karunakaran took the Tesla job. He said the decision was a no-brainer."

"What really attracts young people to Tesla is instant gratification," Mr. Karunakaran said. "You see these incredible things you've worked on come to fruition, on the road, in months," he said. Many share this view - other Tesla employees said they've turned away offers from companies like Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc. that were 20% to 50% above their Tesla salaries.

Above: Trying to get in the door at Tesla (Image: Tesla)
The Wall Street Journal also interviewed, "Anusha Atluri, a second-year M.B.A. student at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, spent the summer as an intern on Tesla's Model 3 assembly line in Fremont. Partway through the summer, Ms. Atluri spotted a way to tweak a step in the manufacturing line that she thought might speed up production."

As a next step, "She put together a PowerPoint presentation for the rest of the team and, encouraged by the response, she suggested following up the next week with management to discuss implementing the change. 'They were like, why not just try it tomorrow?' she said. The process changed the next day, and within a week the line was running more efficiently."

Landon Kupfer, a 23-year-old San Jose native adds, "Getting a job there was pretty exciting... We'd get one goal to work toward, we'd hit that goal, then, Boom!-it didn't even matter-let's go to the next thing." It's reported that many of Tesla's 45,000 workers enjoy the "adrenaline, stock options and a shared passion with the company's leader to change the world."

Above: A looks at Tesla's production line at the Fremont factory (Image: Tesla)
It turns out that Tesla draws from a deep pool of schools - often with an emphasis on mechanical engineers and technicians. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Boston, the company held an invitation-only session with 60 students who peppered Tesla reps with questions about car assembly and production issues. "They were jumping out of their skin excited to be there," said Dave Ortendahl, the school career center's director of corporate relations.

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WSJ Says Tesla Is Most Sought-After Company For Young Job Seekers

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Tesla is currently the most sought-after company for young job seekers. According to the Wall Street Journal, "On Handshake, a student career-services app... nine million student and alumni users showed Tesla received more job and internship applications than any other company on the app in the 2016-2017 academic year."

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Reykjavík City Council took part in the trial

Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.

The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.

Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces, researchers said.

In Iceland, the trials run by Reykjavík City Council and the national government eventually included more than 2,500 workers, which amounts to about 1% of Iceland's working population.

A range of workplaces took part, including preschools, offices, social service providers, and hospitals.

The trials led unions to renegotiate working patterns, and now 86% of Iceland's workforce have either moved to shorter hours for the same pay, or will gain the right to, the researchers said.

Workers reported feeling less stressed and at risk of burnout, and said their health and work-life balance had improved. They also reported having more time to spend with their families, do hobbies and complete household chores.

Will Stronge, director of research at Autonomy, said: "This study shows that the world's largest ever trial of a shorter working week in the public sector was by all measures an overwhelming success.

"It shows that the public sector is ripe for being a pioneer of shorter working weeks - and lessons can be learned for other governments."

Gudmundur Haraldsson, a researcher at Alda, said: "The Icelandic shorter working week journey tells us that not only is it possible to work less in modern times, but that progressive change is possible too."

Spain is piloting a four day working week for companies in part due to the challenges of coronavirus.

And consumer goods giant Unilever is giving staff in New Zealand a chance to cut their hours by 20% without hurting their pay in a trial.

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Four-day week 'an overwhelming success' in Iceland

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The majority of workers in Iceland now look set to move to shorter hours for the same pay.