Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2016
Toyota (Japan) is the overall global leader in autonomous automotive innovation, followed by Bosch (Germany), Denso (Japan), Hyundai (South Korea) and GM (US). Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20. However, the truth is that the techies are far from leading the self-driving pack.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
After all, Apple’s Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana , Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive , but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them. And indeed, the auto industry is beginning to embrace technology that works in the manner of a virtual assistant.
Plug In India
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. For example, the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, says Japan will run out of electricity if all cars in Japan are EVs. You can do a google search to check the facts on energy creation. Maybe H2 will be okay in large vehicles like trucks.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Did you know that Toyota will not allow California’s NUMMI assembly plant (Toyota/GM joint venture) to export the Toyota Carolla/Tacoma to Japan? Did you really expect the domestic auto industry to maintain marketshare when we opened our market to free trade without first getting commitments from those other countries to open theirs?
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It The state of Michigan, which has seen its economy decimated by the collapse of the gas-powered auto industry, is pouring incentives into the alt-car market.
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