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Waymo suing Otto and Uber over autonomous driving technology

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Waymo, formerly the Google self-driving car project, is suing Otto and its parent company Uber, charging that the two mis-appropriated Waymo trade secrets and infringed Waymo patents. Waymo engineers have driven down the cost of LiDAR dramatically even as we’ve improved the quality and reliability of its performance.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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In addition to debuting the ReachNow car sharing service in Seattle, BMW Group Member of the Board Peter Schwarzenbauer also announced the establishment of ReachNow’s North American headquarters in the city and its plans to expand the service to three additional cities in 2016—with the intention of servicing 10 North American cities.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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Starting in 2016, the Swedish brand has included plug-in hybrid versions of pretty much every new vehicle it sells in the US. . Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them.

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How EV Charging Boosts Value at Commercial Real Estate

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In fact, online searches for sustainable goods increased globally by 71% from 2016 to 2021, according to one Economist/World Wide Fund for Nature report. Notably, the installation costs of DCFCs are significantly more than Level 2 charging stations. Customers are increasingly seeking out environmentally friendly companies.

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Stanford scientists identify new Li-B-S solid electrolyte materials that boost lithium-ion battery performance

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S system also has a low elemental cost of approximately 0.05 To find reliable solid electrolytes, Sendek and his colleagues in 2016 trained a computer algorithm to screen more than 12,000 lithium-containing compounds in a materials database. S system may exhibit even wider thermodynamic electrochemical stability windows of 0.63

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. This has been available already since 2016, but at the very low resolution, and only last year it reached the VGA resolution.

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BMW’s ReachNow car sharing expands to Brooklyn, launches pilot programs for new mobility services

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Share: MINI owners of 2016 or 2017 model year vehicles are invited to join the ReachNow Share pilot program in Seattle. Share enables MINI owners to rent their vehicles via ReachNow when they don’t need access to it, helping to offset the cost of car ownership. ReachNow is available via the App Store and on Google Play.

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