Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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APRIL 25, 2021

I covered the local thriving EV scene here in the South Bay of Los Angeles connecting with the superstar pioneers like Kitty Adams, Dency Nelson, Jim Montgomery, Paul Scott, Linda Nichols, Zan Dubin Scott and so many others. Debra Bushweit Galliani in 2013 with our first electric car. But I needed to see and feel the car for myself.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Known as “dynamic eHorizon,” the new service is connected to the HERE location cloud with real time digital maps and the IBM connected car cloud. Using IBM Big Data and Analytics, it takes into account dynamic events such as weather, accidents, or traffic jams. Connected vehicles Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) V2X'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Its 20 kW design allows for quick and easy installation on widely available 3 x 32A low-cost grid connections. More recently BMW showcased the Terra 53 at the IAA Live-Drive event in Frankfurt and at the Plug-In 2013 Conference & Exposition in San Diego.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

During the demonstration, Siemens’ residential EVSE was shown to be accessible by web-connected computers, smart phones and tablets, allowing the EV owner to better monitor the status of the EV charging, schedule future charge events, as well as determine the total kilowatt hours consumed and the cost of charging. Appliance connection.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

That memorable event occurred in May, when Sharma and a delegation from his employer, Renesas Electronics , met with Narendra Modi to discuss how the semiconductor company could support the prime minister’s India Semiconductor Mission and Digital India initiative. He learned how to set up antennas and radios to track celestial events.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. We’re trying to get ahead of the game to ensure design before connectivity proliferates the entire driving experience. Several federally funded connected-vehicle research test beds are operating throughout the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Nissan will showcase its Autonomous Drive technology at CEATEC JAPAN 2013—the first time that Nissan’s new Autonomous Drive (AD) system will be demonstrated to the general public. Autonomous driving Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Safety' Showcasing AD at CEATEC.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally revealed Ford’s all-new S-MAX Concept vehicle during a keynote at the IFA 2013 consumer electronics show in Berlin. Ford’s ECG Heart Rate Monitoring Seat and Glucose Level Monitoring, leveraging existing Ford SYNC connectivity to deliver health and wellbeing advantages for those inside the car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Following up on a December 2013 over-the-air software upgrade to the Model S to enable safer charging under certain conditions, Tesla Motors announced that it has also designed an improved wall adapter with a thermal fuse. Tesla will provide this upgraded adapter to existing and new customers free of charge starting in a few weeks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Nissan expects strong sales in 2013, led by the NV200, a new-generation compact van which will hit 200,000 cumulative sales by the end of fiscal year 2013 (April 2013-March 2014). Nissan offers one of the widest ranges of LCVs, from mini-LCVs up to 7.5-ton ton trucks. Overall Nissan’s LCV sales were 1.14 million units in FY2012.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2014

The drawback, as noted in a 2013 study by Ford researchers on GDI particulates, is that direct injection of fuel into the combustion cylinder risks liquid fuel impingement onto the piston and cylinder surfaces and inhomogeneous air fuel mixing; consequentially PM formation is higher than in conventional PFI gasoline engines. smooth running.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

At a “Go Further with Ford” event in Amsterdam, Ford Motor Company detailed plans for an aggressive product acceleration in Europe, targeting opportunities for growth in the large car, SUV and commercial vehicle segments while emphasizing fuel economy and enabling technologies such as the EcoBoost engines. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will carry out a series of verification tests in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from November 2012 to March 2013 to assess various practicalities of the widespread deployment of standard chargers for plug-in vehicles. The tests will be conducted together with two local governments and 10 businesses.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in 2013, Milwaukee Tool embarked on an ambitious new direction for its products by giving their tools wireless connectivity. Initially, the concept was to leverage this wireless connectivity to create an app-driven tool that would control the maximum speed of a cordless drill. Milwaukee Tool. Artificial Intelligence.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

(BDNT), the 50:50 joint venture between Daimler and BYD ( earlier post ) formally revealed in Shenzhen at the “EV – The Future” event its new Denza brand of electric vehicles developed in China, for the Chinese market. The Denza brand launch event is the latest milestone in the cooperation between Daimler and BYD.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Having suitable standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems is vital for enabling European manufacturers to produce the next generation of connected cars. During 2013, ETSI and CEN finalized the work related to the Release 1 standardization package. Connected cars are expected to appear on European roads in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

System-specific engineers are notified via email whenever these software update opportunities occur, based on adaptive event monitoring that can detect conditions of interest and automatically collect relevant data. This method has already led to at least 20 major design improvements for Ford's future plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

The OIG concluded that DOE had not provided information that raised questions about Ecotality’s ability to meet its project goals, including completing planned EV charger installations and the collection of EV usage data—even though the data had a “ readily apparent ” connection to the OIG audit then underway. —OIG special report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

One advantage of this sort of direct communication between vehicles is that it has very little time delay, and could warn you to apply the brakes in response to an event only hundreds of yards away. Stancil, and Fan Bai (2013) A Roadside Scattering Model for the Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Channel. Lin Cheng, Daniel D.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Audi is providing more details on the coming A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The charging connection is located behind the four rings in the radiator grille; the charging socket, like the TFSI engine, sports an e-tron badge. A3 Sportback e-tron drivetrain - hybrid components. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

MKC will be the first Lincoln to have always-on built-in connectivity, allowing owners to utilize a smartphone app to control the vehicle. With the MyLincoln Mobile app, MKC owners can start, lock, unlock and locate the vehicle, as well as schedule a remote start event for a set time. Engines Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Secretary Chu made the announcement at an event today in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California, where he was joined by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Coulomb Technologies founder and Chief Technology Officer Richard Lowenthal. New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.; Sacramento, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.;

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JUNE 13, 2012

Conceived to address strategic gaps in US manufacturing innovation, the NNMI is envisioned as a network of up to 15 regional hubs—Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation—that will connect research discoveries and budding ideas for tomorrow’s technologies and products with current US manufacturers and startup firms of tomorrow.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Ahead of trials on the Shuto Expressway near the Tokyo metropolitan area starting 15 October, Toyota will exhibit AHDA at the 20 th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress Tokyo 2013, an international conference for intelligent transport systems (ITS), to be held from 14-18 October. Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Safety'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The challenge had been announced earlier at the DOE’s Energy Datapalooza event in October. The deadline for the first phase of the competition is 15 January 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

generation advanced safety research vehicle at the company’s Prius Challenge event in Sonoma California. The platform is the second generation of the advanced safety research vehicle revealed to the public by Toyota at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) displayed its 2.0 Earlier post.)The

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

It takes approximately seven hours for the battery to be fully charged using a dedicated 220V connection. Its newly designed front and rear anti-collision beams made from ultra-high strength steel and its body structure protect the battery pack in the event of a collision. In 2013, Shanghai GM will introduce Start / Stop technology.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In an event to be held this Wednesday at its “Van Innovation Campus” in Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Vans will unveil its vision of the van of the future: connected and electrically powered. (In Mercedes-Benz Vans expanded its plant in Fuzhou in the south-east of China with its first research and development center outside Germany in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

There is by regulation a double restriction on fuel consumption: fuel quantity for the race limited to 100 kg (-35% from 2013) with fuel flow rate limited to 100 kg/hr max (unlimited under V8 regulations). The MGU-K is connected to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. The combination of the 1.6-liter Power unit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

In the unlikely event of a malfunction, the results of these parallel calculations can be accessed in a flash. Bosch was the first automotive supplier to test automated driving on public roads in Germany and in the US in early 2013. Bosch and Daimler bring many years of experience to the development of functional safety systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Every mile driven there can represent 10, 100 or 1,000 miles of on-road driving in terms of our ability to pack in the occurrences of difficult events. —Ryan Eustice, University of Michigan associate professor and principal investigator in Ford’s research collaboration with the university. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Connected vehicle technology will be most effective when all vehicles traveling on our roadways are equipped with the technology, and that is particularly important with respect to large, heavy trucks that pose the highest risk of injury to occupants of other vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

Via the integrated on-board charging componentry and the standard Porsche Universal Charger (AC), the battery can reach full charge within approximately two and a half hours when connected to a 240V power source. The new generation of Panamera models will be available starting late in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

liter supercharged engine and 15 kW electric motor connected to an advanced CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission). In his presentation on the FF system at the recent SAE 2013 Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium, Owen Thunes from Nissan noted that torque from the package of the 2.5L

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

The US DOT’s is preparing NHTSA for a decision in 2013 that will determine whether the agency proceeds with regulatory activities that could require DSRC technology on new vehicles, consumer information programs that help new car buyers understand the effectiveness of this technology, or the need for further research and development.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2013

Volkswagen brought the new CrossBlue Coupé plug-in hybrid sporty mid-size SUV show car, introduced in April at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), to a media event in Berlin for its European premiere. Engine compartment of the CrossBlue Coupé plug-in hybrid shows the transverse-mounted 3.0L Click to enlarge. In boosting—i.e.,

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