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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving teams up with Luminar for advanced LiDAR

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Since launching in March 2017, AID has been scouting the best complementary LiDAR solutions in the market that can support the depth sensing demands of the autonomous driving test fleet currently driving in the city of Munich. —Luminar founder and chief executive officer, Austin Russell. to deploy its LiDAR technology.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

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billion trips—in and around the top 50 US cities by population and reported the findings is a new study: INRIX Autonomous Vehicles City Study 2017. In these environments, the upside of electric drivetrains is maximized while range and charging infrastructure limitations are minimized. Click to enlarge.

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Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

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The UT Austin battery formulation also allows for a greater number of charging and discharging cycles—more than 1,200 cycles with low cell resistance. Murchison at UT Austin. This research is supported by UT Austin, but there are no grants associated with this work. Braga et al. Click to enlarge. Resources. Grundish, A.

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31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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Delta Air Lines has been advertising path-of-totality flights from Austin (sold out) and Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit. You’re experiencing the event in a sort of sterile environment,” Mr. Rao said. Southwest Airlines (which is running a sweepstakes to win a seat) also offers scheduled flights along the path.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She died in 2017.

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EVgo launches grid-tied public fast charging system with second-life batteries

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Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy. The increased use of second-life battery technology is an exciting development, keeping fast charging of clean electric vehicles affordable and insulating the grid from spikes in electricity demand.

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