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50 » PEOPLE&BUSINESS June 2018 | AutoData Disclousure/Caterpillar Disclousure/Ford SYMPOSIUM USP The Automotive Engineering Center of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Poli-USP, and the Federal University of ABC, UFABC, sponsor a Symposium called Competindo na Nuvem e no Solo (Competing in the Cloud and on Soil), which will debate the transformation that the world automotive sector has been through and its technological challenges to produce connected, electric/ hybrid and autonomous vehicles. June 16, a Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon, at USP. Registrations at https://goo.gl/Gq6hWJ. Disclousure/Audi WAZE VIA FORD SYNC iPhone Waze users can now project information from the app on the Ford vehicles screen via SYNC AppLink and control it by voice commands in Brazil. The system worked, until then, for only Android phones. SPECIAL STEEL Gerdau presented a new line of special types of steel for the automotive industry, in particular for the production of traditional and leaf springs, bearings and gearings. MOVING Kongsberg Automotive is moving, keeping the city of Jundiaí, SP as headquarters. The company leaves a property of 15 thousand m2 of total area to one of 42 thousand m2. In September. CX 0.28 Audi advances in the development of the E-Tron 100% electric SUV: wind tunnel tests have pointed to Cx, drag coefficients of 0.28, greatly helped by small external mirrors that, for the first time in a production vehicle, will bring cameras instead of traditional mirrors. Autonomy projected in 400 kilometers. CATERPILLAR 50 THOUSAND The Caterpillar’s line of track-type tractors in Piracicaba, SP, celebrated, in May, production of the 50.000th unit. The model D6K represented the record. The first of them was manufactured in the country in 1969, in the old factory of Santo Amaro, in the capital.