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Editorial: Why Are People Worried About Automotive 'Kill Switch' Mandates?

The Truth About Cars

Usually referenced as a “kill switch,” the device is supposed to be required on every new automobile manufactured after 2025. Modern automobiles are already loaded up with microphones and are capable of transmitting control inputs, positional data, and plenty more back to the manufacturer. The latter seems the more likely option.

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Norway leads the world in moving to EVs

EV Info

Norway made that plan back in 2016. A recent report printed by the Norwegian Automobile Federation’s magazine, Motor , the downward trend in sales for ICE cars has been so consistent and steep that the last new ICE car to be sold in Norway could happen just seven months from now, in April 2022. Cliff edge.

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

Green Car Congress

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. For additional information, please contact: info@thetownsendco.com. Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets.

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

Green Car Congress

Completion date for the consortium’s research work is early 2016. They are displayed via an advanced Man-Machine-Interface (MMI) using the Driver Info Center in the instrument panel, with secondary information shown in the central console. 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”

Green Car Congress

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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