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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

Cars That Think

With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. MIT ] This robot gripper is called DragonClaw, and do you really need to know anything else? ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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Video Friday: A 3-Year-Old Robot

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IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Enjoy today’s videos! ANYbotics ] What meal is this robot kitting? Infants keenly observe their parents, siblings, or caregivers.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

insulating or rebuilding Europe’s rickety housing stock could cut heating bills from 30 to 80 per cent, which would slash demand for their product. We have no known Lithium deposits that could sustain domestic battery production. Much of the technology needed is still a distant dream ? but not all of it. — AH2 14.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. I have an EV all composite body/chassis that goes 80mph and 100+ mile range I’d like to put into production so I think I’ll give Oregon a call. Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. — jerryd 7.

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