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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

Green Car Congress

App developers who want to enable their creations for AppLink can now register at [link] to download the AppLink SDK. More than 55 billion apps have been downloaded from the leading digital markets, and US users have an average of 67 apps on their devices. —Phil Abram.

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Continental extends term of Nikolai Setzer as CEO, appoints new board member for automotive group sector – ET Auto

Baua Electric

After strategically realigning the automotive business with a market- and customer-focused structure – despite an extremely difficult environment – Setzer will now hand over responsibility to von Hirschheydt. “I In 2007, von Hirschheydt joined Continental as a project manager in the Mergers and Acquisitions department.

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Climate Disclosure Standards Board Proposes New Framework for Data Reporting at World Business Summit

Green Car Congress

There is no scarcity of warnings of the risk of irreversible climatic damage to the environment. CDSB was founded in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Against this background, it is imperative that companies supply their shareholders with appropriate climate change data.

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Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

Green Car Congress

in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. It’s the energy consumption we don’t see. —Lotfi Belkhir.

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Standards Certification Testing: Bringing Order to the Internet of Things

Cars That Think

In 2007, Comarch began working with the UPnP Forum (now part of the Open Connectivity Foundation ) to certify Universal Plug and Play compliance for personal computers, Wi-Fi access points, routers, audiovisual, and other devices on home-scale networks. Written in.Net C# running under Windows, CATF uses libraries of Python test scripts.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

Dr. Hansen wrote both a personal letter to President elect Barack Obama as well as a pdf white paper that you can download and read for yourself and don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. But don’t just take my word for it: Just last week our Climate Consigliere , Doc Jimmy Hansen laid it all out for us.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

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