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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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Before starting his company, Fujii was vice president at Northrop Grumman’s engineering division in San Diego. He was 2016 president of the IEEE Computer Society, 2021 vice president of the IEEE Technical Activities Board, and 2012–2014 director of Division VIII. which designs critical systems. Fujii received the 2020 Richard E.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Year-to-date, total sales of EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles are up 46%; F-150, Escape and Fusion are the top-selling EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles. Ford’s global EcoBoost engine family now includes the 1.0-liter liter four-cylinder engines; and the powerful 2.7-liter liter V6 engines. liter V6 debuts in 2016.

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Randall has served as IEEE treasurer, director of IEEE Region 3, chair of IEEE Women in Engineering, and vice president of IEEE Member and Geographic Activities. In 2016 she created the IEEE MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle) program to assist with disaster relief efforts and for science, technology, engineering, and math educational purposes.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Ford Motor Company will offer three years of complimentary charging to California and Maryland customers who purchase or lease a 2016 C-MAX Energi with its pilot EV 1-2-3 Charge program. 2016 Ford C-MAX. The 2016 C-MAX Energi combines a 141 hp 2.0L The 2016 C-MAX Energi combines a 141 hp 2.0L Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Professor Jaeseon Lee’s team in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering has successfully deployed the key concepts of Elon Musk’s superfast Hyperloop transit system, such as massive vacuum tube, magnetic levitation, and linear electric motor, in a small-scale demonstration environment.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

The 2016 F-150 with 2.7-liter liter EcoBoost engine comes standard with Auto Start-Stop. liter EcoBoost engines including the all-new high-output version for F-150 Raptor. When the brake is released, the engine restarts quickly. Actual fuel savings vary depending on driving patterns. liter EcoBoost. liter EcoBoost.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Using technology from the 2016 Chevrolet Volt propulsion system ( earlier post ), Malibu Hybrid will offer an estimated combined fuel economy rating exceeding 45 mpg (5.22 engine with start/stop. engine with start/stop. 2016 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid Lithium-Ion Battery System, 1.8L Engine and Drive Unit.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will begin testing on California streets next year, as Ford Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto continues growing. Autonomous Ford Fusion outside the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 18, 2016

sensor fusion. This allows test engineers to validate information from each signal with a higher degree of accuracy than can be obtained from any one of the sensors independently. This same concept is applied in the AcuraWatch safety and driver-assistive suite available on all model year 2016 Acura sedans and SUVs.

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Coughlin is active in several other professional organizations including the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Storage Networking Industry Association. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs. From 2016 to 2018 she served as vice president of education.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The ADIS16490 represents Analog Devices’ most advanced IMU, leveraging years of system-level experience and ADI’s best performing angular rate and linear acceleration MEMS cores combined with precision calibration, sensor filtering, and fusion. ADI will be sampling two new variants of the ADIS16490 IMU by the end of 2016.

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JANUARY 23, 2016

The QNX Platform for ADAS is scheduled for general release in Q2 2016. ADAS platforms: NVIDIA DRIVE Automotive Platform for computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion.

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JULY 18, 2016

The Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot, which Daimler will showcase at the upcoming IAA 2016 in Hannover in September, is already making its first public journey on part of Europe’s longest BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) route in the Netherlands, linking Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with the town of Haarlem. Earlier post.). Drive units.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

At CES 2016, NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2—a high-performance computing platform for in-vehicle artificial intelligence applied to the complexities inherent in autonomous driving. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO, NVIDIA, introducing the DRIVE PX 2 at CES 2016. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 5, 2015

The EyeQ4 would support fusion with radars and scanning-beam lasers in the high-end customer functions. Engineering samples of EyeQ4 are expected to be available by the fourth quarter of 2015. Series production is supported for early 2018 start of production. The first million-chip celebration took place in the middle of 2012.

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JULY 11, 2018

The ECU network combines data sourced from all the surround sensors in a process called sensor fusion. These cars have a cooling system on board, so engineers can make the most of this legacy technology by integrating the ECU network into the battery cells’ advanced cooling circuit.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

in 2016), the company said it is expanding its scope to include vehicles and services—all designed around human-centered experiences. Further, Ford is reducing internal combustion engine capital expenditures by one-third and redeploying that capital into electrification—on top of the previously announced $4.5

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JANUARY 5, 2017

In July 2016, BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced a collaboration to bring solutions for highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021. BMW engineer André Mueller tests autonomous driving technology in a BMW autonomous test car. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Su Yan, responsible for data reception for the landing at Miyun ground station , in Beijing, was waiting—nervously and in silence with her team—for vital signals indicating that optical, laser, and microwave sensors had combined effectively with rocket engines for a soft landing. A human-rated rocket is also.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Consumer Reports’ survey also reveals that some automakers—striving for improved fuel economy—are clearly making more reliable turbocharged engines than others. When compared to the average non-turbo engine among 2016-2018 models, overall, Lexus makes the most reliable turbo powertrain, followed by Honda and Porsche.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Integrating these results with EIA reference case projections for the transportation sector produces light duty vehicle energy consumption estimates between 7,000 and 18,000 trillion Btu in 2050 compared to 16,000 trillion Btu in 2016. The existing literature on CAV energy implications … focuses primarily on the operational impact.

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JULY 15, 2013

Engineers at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah and the University of Ulsan in South Korea have used friction bit joining (FBJ) to bond dissimilar combinations of aluminum alloy A356 and grey cast iron. Findings of this research are published in the June issue of the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

The stunning Ford GT—which received the EyesOn Design Award at NAIAS for best production vehicle—serves as a technology showcase for top EcoBoost engine performance, aerodynamics and lightweight carbon fiber construction. We are real focused on weight reduction. Ford’s electric drive vehicle sales. —Raj Nair.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The proposed tokamak (donut-shaped) reactor is designed to have 500 MW fusion power at 3.3

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Vehicle automation is set to be rolled out in stages, starting with partially automated driving from 2016; high levels of automation from 2020; and fully automated systems available from 2025. From 2016, partially automated systems may therefore be assisting drivers in “stop & go” situations on the freeway at low speeds of up to 30 km/h (18.6

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These include technologies to improve conventional vehicles with the use of advanced lightweight materials; improvements in aerodynamics; and engines and powertrain technologies that improve vehicle efficiency for both light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks.

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liter four-cylinder engine producing 150 horsepower (hp) and 139 pound-feet (lb.-ft.) The system defaults to Normal when restarting the engine so, for the most performance opt for Sport, where the steering effort is increased and there is added responsiveness of the engine and transmission. Road Test: 2019 Ford Fusion Energi.

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The Federal Government now requires a fleet average of 35.5mpg by the 2016 model year - this is an increase from today’s average of 25.3mpg. The manufacturer has already added full hybrid versions of the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan to its existing Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner hybrids.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Completion date for the consortium’s research work is early 2016. UR:BAN participants include: Adam Opel AG; AUDI AG; BMW AG; BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH; Robert Bosch GmbH; German Federal Institute for Road Transportation; Continental Automotive GmbH; Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH; Continental Teves AG & Co.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

igniting gasoline purely by compression, as with a diesel, rather by using a spark—is a promising, high-efficiency, low-temperature combustion mode that offers low engine-out NO x and soot. liter engine, operated in gasoline compression ignition mode with 87 anti-knock index (AKI) gasoline. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 26, 2016

The standard engine available on the base SE and Limited trim is a 2.0-liter liter Nu MPI (multi-port injection) Atkinson four-cylinder engine producing a peak 147 hp (110 kW) at 6,200 rpm and 132 lb-ft (179 N·m of torque at 4,500 rpm. Furthermore, this engine features a high compression ratio of 12.5.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

The Snapdragon 820A, introduced at CES 2016, is Qualcomm Technologies’ newest automotive grade system-on-chip (SoC). Zeroth accelerates execution of deep neural networks using the heterogeneous compute engines that are part of the Snapdragon 820A. Automotive samples of the 820A family are expected to be available in Q1 2016.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Ford PHEV sales up strongly in 2016. Separately, Ford announced that its plug-in hybrid midsize sedan, Fusion Energi, saw a 63% increase in sales in 2016 to 15,938 units from 9,750 in 2015. Overall, sales of its plug-in hybrids (Fusion and C-MAX) increased 38% from 17,341 units in 2015 to 23,895 units in 2016.

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