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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. mpg by 2016. As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. Power plant capital costs. Source: EIA.

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$90M UR:BAN research initiative presenting results on ADAS and traffic management for cities; intelligent vehicles

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Completion date for the consortium’s research work is early 2016. In addition to avoiding collisions, Opel is also working on improving inner-city traffic conditions for the benefit of motorists, city dwellers and the climate. Novel techniques are developed on the basis of experimental studies.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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Since January 2016, the MEB has been under the direction of Christian Senger, who was previously in charge of Automotive Systems and Technology at Continental AG. This will provide support for an ecosystem of services. —Christian Senger. The driver’s space blends in with the rest of the interior; the mobile space in the I.D.

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