Chery’s plans to produce in Barcelona continue and, according to , are very close to completion. The Chinese giant intends to produce vehicles in the plant that Nissan had in Barcelona and seems to be very close to reaching a final agreement.
Information from the economic media assures that the automobile group has sent two emissaries to Barcelona to meet with the D-Hub consortium, which has managed the Nissan facilities since the Japanese firm abandoned its soil and, ultimately, a large part of their expectations in the European market.
Since then, who and why kept the Nissan facilities in the Barcelona Free Trade Zone has been a mass of rumors. Along the way there was talk that the Chinese Great Wall Motors could take over the facilities but, finally, everything ended with a refusal. The one who put the most effort was the D-Hubwho stayed with it and which is now key.
Some fringes to close
The D-Hub is a project led by QEV Technologies and B-Tech with Goodman as partners. After months of tensions over the financial responsibilities of each of them in the reindustrialization of the facilities, last March the Barcelona city council handed over the keys to the plant.
The approval allows QEV and B-Tech the operation of the facilities for 50 years and comes after different projects related to electric mobility have been confirmed. For example, QEV has already agreed to produce 1,500 electric vans for Bimbo to make its deliveries in Mexico.
The creation of the Zeroid brand of commercial vehicles has also been announced and the intention is to reborn Ebro as a brand of completely electric pick-ups. There is also talk of producing Silence electric mopeds. And, now, it is Chery that seems to give a definitive boost to the reindustrialization process.
The Chinese automobile giant has confirmed that it is looking for facilities in Spain (and, more specifically, in Barcelona) to produce its new vehicles in our country, coinciding with the trip of the emissaries which was signed up from.
The manufacturer will enter our country with Omoda, a brand that intends to fight for the lower part of the market with SUVs with combustion engines and, later, electric ones. The example of MG, which has in the MG4 Electric one of the best-selling electric cars in Spain and has positioned the MG ZS as the best-selling last August, shows that there is a niche in our country for low-cost vehicles.
At the moment, according to the economic newspaper, it remains to be decided what the production of the units that Chery will assemble in our country will be like. It remains to be discussed whether all assembly line It will be based on Spanish soil or, on the contrary, the cars will arrive partially assembled and will end up being assembled in Barcelona.
Chery’s intentions seem to be to produce 15,000 units per year, which could be expanded to a total of 30,000 cars each year. They also point out that the Asian giant plans to launch up to five different brands and 15 models of its vehicles in our country, in long-term plans that have the combustion, hybrid and low-priced vehicle as their main attraction.
Today, I just completed a one-year Time Lapse. My tools? An iPhone and two shortcuts. With the greatest simplicity, I photograph the view from my house for 356 days and the result is a video of the changing of the seasons, from spring to spring.
Every day at 3 p.m.
Today, I just completed a one-year Time Lapse. My tools? An iPhone and two shortcuts.
You can find a detailed guide at @SamaGame. pic.twitter.com/I5sLTF7V05
– David Bernal Raspall (@ david_br8) May 19, 2020
Simplicity and ease have been key to carrying out the projectSince I wanted to avoid having tripods, dedicated cameras and other mounts around the house. So after several tests and trials, I established some simple rules and followed them for a whole year. The objective of the exercise was to photograph the view of my house every day at three in the afternoon, a favorable time for me and well lit.
The first challenge that was presented was storage of photographs. Of course I could just take the photos and save them in the app Pictures, but the idea of having so many photos mixed together seemed messy, so I decided on a shortcut.
Thanks to the app Shortcuts I immediately knew I could do two things: save photos outside of Pictures easily and automatically edit the video without any intervention on my part. So I put get down to business and I created two shortcuts.
Shortcuts, my main tool
The first shortcut is very simple. Take a photo, rename it, and save it to iCloud. Let’s see in more detail how to create this shortcut:
We open the app Shortcuts on our iPhone (or iPad).
We touch To create a shortcut.
We are looking for Photo and we add To take a picture, our first step.
We are looking for Last name and we add Set the name.
We are looking for record and we add Save file.
We have the three basic steps of our shortcut, now let’s adjust the details:
We locate Rename the photo to and we touch in the section Last name below.
We touch Variables.
We choose Current date.
In the third step, that of savings, we deactivate Ask where to save.
In Destination path, behind / Shortcuts /, we write the name of a folder.
We are pressing following.
We define a name, for example TimeLapse Photoand click OK.
Shortcut created. We went one more step.
We open the app Records.
We enter the file Shortcuts in iCloud Drive.
We create a folder with the same name as the one we wrote in step 5 of the previous paragraph.
Ready. We can now start to photograph. To remind us to take photos every day at the same time, we have several resources, a reminder can be a good option, but the best option is automate Shortcuts. With this system we can receive a notification every day at a specific time and with a simple touch the system will launch the shortcut for us with the camera ready. Let’s do it:
We open the app Shortcuts.
We enter the tab Automate.
We have hit the « + ».
We choose Create personal automation.
We touch Time of the day.
We choose the precise time.
We are pressing following.
We touch Add action.
We are looking for Shortcuts and we add Run the shortcut.
We touch Shortcut, which appears in blue on a gray background.
We select our shortcut TimeLapse Photo.
We are pressing following.
We are pressing Okay.
And do I photograph like that?
The short answer is yes. Along has a few recommendations. One of the least enjoyable things about time lapse videos is shaky video. It goes beyond everyone’s aesthetic taste, he can get giddy to see it. For this reason, photographs in a time lapse must be cropped, straightened, etc. This, yes, with some recommendations we can avoid a lot of post-production work:
Let’s go down always in the same place Take the picture. If it’s at home, you can even count the tiles or use a specific reference.
Let’s put the camera more or less at the same height, for example around neck height and a few inches away from us.
Let’s focus and frame all the photos in the same way. It may sound complex, but it is simple. Once we have followed the previous two steps take two points as a reference. The first one we will use to determine if we are focusing up or down, the second for the right or the left. In my case, for example, there was a floor lamp, the top edge of which still allowed a millimeter to be seen at the bottom of the photo. In addition, he also used the door of a specific house which still only allowed a millimeter to be seen on the far right of the photograph.
Through these steps, we will get the photos almost ready to produce the video without having to make any other adjustments. Every day when we decided, simply we run the shortcut and take the picture, we examine it, we repeat it if necessary or we touch record consider it good.
Postproduction, the other shortcut
After taking all the photos we consider appropriate, we will move on to post-production. I mean, for create a GIF or video with everyone. Again, we’ll do this with a shortcut. We will create it like this:
We open the app Shortcuts on our iPhone (or iPad).
We touch To create a shortcut.
We are looking for Archiver and we add Recover File.
We are looking for Filtered and we add Filter files.
We are looking for GIF and we add Create GIF.
We are looking for View and we add Quick overview.
As before, we will adjust some details:
In the action of Recover Files we will activate Select multiple.
In the action of Filter files we will touch sort by and we will choose Creation date.
In the GIF converting action, we will discuss Show more et en Seconds per photo we will write 0.1. In Width, we will write 2000.
According to my tests, a speed of 0.1 is most suitable, although we can test with 0.2, in which the video will go at half the speed, or other values. Once finished, and as with the previous shortcut, we will touch following, we will write a name then Okay.
To create our GIF, just run the shortcut, in the file selector find our photo file and select all files. When we see the GIF on the screen, we can use the share menu to send it or hang it on our social networks.
How to create our first iOS shortcut step by step
The steps might seem a bit complex, but they’re really straightforward, especially if we know something about the Shortcuts app, which we saw an introduction to a few weeks ago. Once the habit of running the shortcut and photographing has been created, the rest is very simple. Ideas? A daily photo of a factory or a building under construction can give very interesting results.
