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Tech: Autonomous Vehicles Are Going to Require a New Brain

Clean Fleet Report

Waymo minivans are already driverless. In doing so, organizations can leverage more than 100 million miles of driving data already captured to easily create billions of miles of such synthetic data, validating algorithms which in turn minimizes long lead times and creates safe environments for AV drivers.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. UQM Technologies, Inc. Chrysler LLC.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By By partnering with these two industries. But I dont think that would contribute to the global environment, to reduce [global warming gas] emissions." ( Wall Street Journal ). We need to know, is it viable? Kwong asked.

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