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21.06.19
AVTOVAZ and the Skolkovo Foundation are developing partnership

21st of June 2019, JSC ''AVTOVAZ'' and the ''Skolkovo'' Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, aimed at the future cooperation and exchange of the experience in the field of innovative startups, relevant competencies and resources to promote the development of innovative solutions. The document provides for researching of the opportunity to open a Partner center of AVTOVAZ in the ''Skolkovo''.
The MoU was signed by Selcuk Cura, AVTOVAZ Executive Vice President for Engineering, and Mikhail Tykuchinsky, the Director for Development of the Energy Efficiency Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The event was attended by Nicolas Maure, Senior Vice President, Chairman of the Eurasia region of Groupe Renault and AVTOVAZ BoD Chairman, and Yves Caracatzanis, AVTOVAZ President and CEO.
Nicolas Maure: ''Our cooperation is aimed at mutually beneficial effect between initiatives and innovations of the Skolkovo Foundation and the experience and competences of AVTOVAZ and Renault Engineering teams. I am sure that the results of this synergy will be effective and will have a positive impact on our customers, the technology of the LADA and the Renault cars, and develop our engineering teams in Russia.''
Mikhail Tykuchinsky: ''We have more than 400 technologies which can be used by AVTOVAZ in its both product and manufacturing scopes. We hope that the cooperation with Russian small innovative businesses and conclusion of partnerships with them will allow AVTOVAZ to make a qualitative leap in the production localization''.
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The rides are restricted to a small area just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, where Waymo has been testing self-driving vehicles and has started its own autonomous ride-share service called Waymo One.
Waymo's limited partnership with Lyft is the latest example of the company branching out to work with more companies as it develops autonomous vehicles and services. Earlier this month, Waymo struck a deal with Nissan and Renault to build self-driving vehicles for those automakers.
By partnering with Lyft, Waymo CEO John Krafcik believes the relationship gives both companies “the opportunity to collect valuable feedback.” For Waymo it will be able to better gauge how the public interacts with a self-driving vehicle. Until now, those getting rides in Waymo vehicles in the Phoenix area have been pre-screened and accepted into the Waymo early rider program.
Waymo's steady expansion comes as competitors are making their own plans to roll autonomous ride-share services. Later this year, General Motors subsidiary Cruise, is expected to unveil an autonomous ride-share service in a small area in or near San Francisco.
Uber, which dominates the ride-share industry in the U.S., is also working on its own fleet of self-driving vehicles. Earlier this month, Eric Meyhofer, the head of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, told CNBC his company is working to deploy self-driving cars without safety drivers in limited areas. But he said Uber wants to be in “the good graces of public trust and regulatory trust” before deciding when to roll out Uber vehicles without someone behind the wheel.
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The market downtrend started in the middle of last year and Renault expects a full-year decline of about 5% in sales, according to Francois Provost, senior vice president, chairman of China region at the company.
“We remain confident about the long-term trend for the Chinese market,” he told CNBC's Geoff Cutmore and Arjun Kharpal at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.
Provost explained it was hard to determine the key reason for the sales decline but conversations with Renault dealers and salesmen indicated that customers were hesitating to buy new cars.
“I cannot explain in details the root cause but, for sure, our customers are hesitating to buy, and this explains most of the volume decrease,” he said, adding that it is likely that much of the uncertainty comes from the ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China.
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Provost said he hoped that move would boost consumer confidence in the Chinese auto market.
Still, Renault, which has three joint ventures in China, plans to sell 550,000 vehicles in China in 2022. Last year, the company said it sold more than 216,000 vehicles in the country — about three times more than its 2017 sales.
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Favorable government policies have given pure battery-powered vehicles as well as hybrid cars an advantage despite an overall slowdown in auto sales. Last year, electric car sales in China jumped almost 62% to 1.3 million vehicles. For 2019, it is predicted that electric vehicle sales could hit 1.6 million.
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