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Child Gets A Helicopter Ride To School Near Shah Alam

Helicopters rarely land in our backyards, but that was the sight for a nearby neighbour from Shah Alam who captured a helicopter dropping off a child close to a school on camera.

A white helicopter is said to have landed in Shah Alam on April 17 at a vacant parcel of ground beside a primary school.

After seeing the helicopter twice in his neighbourhood, a local homeowner who wished to remain anonymous uploaded a minute-long video of the helicopter landing in a field of a residential neighbourhood. A shared image showed a child leaving the helicopter while the pilot stood close to the chopper.

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Rolls-Royce To Consider Hydrogen Power For Future Models

In order to become an electric-only brand by 2030, Rolls-Royce is planning to introduce its first BEV, the Spectre, in the fourth quarter of 2023.

However, when the technology is developed enough to be widely commercialised, Rolls-Royce is looking into a different route to electrification in which it may switch from battery power to hydrogen fuel cells.

According to the CEO of Rolls-Royce Torsten Müller-Ötvös, the brand’s strategy leaves the door open for future consideration of hydrogen, Autocar reported.

Müller-Ötvös reacted to the idea that his company’s huge, heavy luxury cars, which are famed in part for their smooth V12 engines, might benefit from the hydrogen combustion technology.

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Maxis And BHPetrol Partner To Digitally Enhance Customer Experience

In order to enhance the consumer experience at their retail stations, Boustead Petroleum Marketing Sdn Bhd (BHPetrol) has chosen Maxis to be a part of the company’s extensive digitalization project.

In accordance with the collaboration, BHPetrol’s outdoor payment terminals at each fuel station and its Point of Sale systems at all of its retail stations in Peninsular Malaysia will be powered by SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) deployed by Maxis as a network provider.

Adaptable, scalable, and cost-effective converged connection solutions are provided by the networking technology known as SD-WAN, which also has built-in security features to guarantee end-to-end communication protection.

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Nearly One Million Accidents On Malaysian Roads In Two Years

Approximately 915,874 traffic accidents were reported between 2021 and 2022, according to the Transport Ministry.

Minister Anthony Loke reported that there were 370,286 accidents in 2021 and 545,588 accidents in 2022, with 6,080 deaths (1.1%) and 4,539 deaths (1.23%) respectively.

According to a research by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros), human behaviour is the primary factor in road accidents, followed by design, the state of the road infrastructure, and the condition of the vehicles.

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Bermaz Auto’s Q4 Net Profit Rises By 28% But Expects Tough Times Ahead

On the strength of improved revenue, Bermaz Auto Bhd’s net profit increased by 27.84% to RM100.62 million for the fourth quarter that ended on April 30, 2023, from RM78.7 million a year earlier.

According to a filing with the stock exchange, the automaker’s earnings per share jumped to 8.63 cents from 6.77 cents.

The final rush to register the balance of unfulfilled back orders (made before June 30, 2022) in February and March 2023 for the sales tax exemption incentives was a major factor in the quarter’s 19.51% increase in revenue from RM897.36 million to RM1.07 billion.

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Toyota’s New Tech Will Boost EV Sales, More Electric Models Coming Soon!

Executives at Toyota Motor seem more assured than before in their capacity to produce and market millions of electric vehicles.

Hiroki Nakajima, chief technology officer of Toyota, said during a daylong series of technology briefings last week at Toyota’s research facility that’s close to Mount Fuji, that consumers switching from hybrids to fully electric vehicles are giving the world’s largest automaker a good indication of where the market will be in three years.

Toyota will meet its objective to sell 1.5 million battery-electric vehicles by 2026, he assured, adding that “development and production will be ready when there is demand for 1.5 million units.”

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