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Toyota racing entering 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship with its two hybrids

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TOYOTA Racing confirmed its entry into the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship, including the Le Mans 24 Hours. Entries, including the two TS030 HYBRIDs, were announced by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest at a press conference in Paris.

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Tesla shipped 6,892 Model S units in Q4 2013, 22,477 full year; battery Gigafactory announcement next week

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Tesla Motors announced record deliveries of 6,892 Model S vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2013, with 22,477 vehicles in the full year. GAAP net loss per share for the quarter ending 30 Sep 2013 was $(0.32), and for Q4 of 2012, $(0.79). In 2013, Tesla pulled in almost $2.5 on a non-GAAP basis and 25.8%

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Integrating traffic simulation and propulsion modeling to estimate EV range for drivers

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A paper on their work, initially presented at the SIMULTECH 2011 conference in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, is newly published in the book Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2013) doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-34336-0_1. Pina et al.

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Ballard, Nisshinbo collaborate to offer first PEM fuel cell using non-precious-metal catalyst

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Nisshinbo and Ballard have jointly collaborated on the development of NPMC since 2013. Ballard and Nisshinbo jointly presented a paper entitled “Non-Precious Metal Catalysts: Cathode Catalyst Layer Design Considerations for High Performance and Stability” at the SSI-21 Conference held in Padua, Italy in June 2017.

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Volvo Car Group introduces world-first Cyclist Detection with full auto brake

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The new functionality is an enhancement of the present detection and auto brake technology, and the package will be called Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection with full auto brake. The advanced sensor system scans the area ahead. With the advanced sensor technology, it is then possible to apply full braking power immediately when necessary.

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ORNL researcher proposes more efficient control strategy for series hybrids

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Malikopoulos 2013. —Malikopoulos (2013). —Malikopoulos (2013). —Malikopoulos (2013). 2013) “Stochastic Optimal Control for Series Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 2013 American Control Conference (ACC), Washington D.C. Click to enlarge. Malikopoulos A. Malikopoulos, A.,

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013.

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