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APRIL 6, 2021

Peter Lamp, General Manager of the Battery Cell Technology Group at BMW AG, has joined its Board of Directors. Dr. Lamp received his MSc in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1989. In 1993, he obtained his PhD in general physics.

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MAY 27, 2018

The BMW Design Department in collaboration with MIT’s Self-Assembly Laboratory have successfully developed printed inflatable material technologies that selftransform, adapt and morph from one state to another. —Martina Starke, head of BMW Brand Vision and BMW Brand Design at BMW Group.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Ricardo has developed and demonstrated an advanced and cost-effective motorcycle Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) concept that offers the comfort and convenience of automatic and semi-automatic operation with better-than-manual fuel efficiency.

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JULY 2, 2014

The project is part of a dissertation in cooperation with the Department of Ergonomics at the Technical University of Munich. The BMW Group makes these orthotic devices in-house, using additive production procedures—i.e., “3D Depending on the specific component requirements, the BMW Group uses different procedures and materials.

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MAY 26, 2022

—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Papers from BMW and Hydrogen Energy Research Lab show that sufficiently lean hydrogen combustion in properly designed combustion chamber results in close to zero NO x.

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APRIL 14, 2016

BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Using the carbon and aluminum MMSF bodies and non-metal panels, body weight will be reduced by up to 45%.

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APRIL 7, 2011

The BMW Brilliance plug-in hybrid concept. BMW Group and its Chinese joint venture partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. have presented a concept plug-in hybrid sedan based on the long wheelbase version of the BMW 5 Series Sedan. This also applies to field testing of the BMW ActiveE.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

A multinational team including researchers from the BMW Group have optimized an ionic liquid electrolyte for Li-air batteries, which resulted in a stable electrode-electrolyte interface and a highly reversible charge-discharge cycling behavior in a test Li-air coin cell. Hassoun from the University of Rome – La Sapienza; W.-J.

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JULY 29, 2014

However, the concept and application of electric vehicle/grid integration has been studied extensively by numerous research groups and automakers for more than 10 years. In conjunction with the university and NRG Energy, Honda will investigate the potential of V2G technology to benefit the grid, vehicle owners and society.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Projects include: BMW Motorsport Ltd will collaborate with Delta Motorsport and WMG at University of Warwick to design, develop and produce power-dense batteries in the UK, one of the missing links in the global roadmap for the widespread adoption of all kinds of electric vehicles.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Intel will purchase a 15% ownership stake in HERE, a global provider of high-definition digital maps and location-based services, from HERE’s current indirect shareholders: Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG. Intel will also work with Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG to test the architecture. —Edzard Overbeek, HERE CEO.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Scientists from the Technische Universität München (TUM) are collaborating with engineers from BMW to develop the means to replace copper with aluminum as a conductor in on-board power systems. Stanford University, California, USA: Design Society, 2009, pp. Lab version of the LEIKO aluminum power plug. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Intentional Grounding A team of researchers from the University of Geneva has worked out how to use lasers to improve lightning rods’ ability to protect nearby structures from nature’s violent electric power surges. Just over a century later, BMW has made it possible to update a car’s paint job to any of 32 colors with the press of a button.

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JUNE 10, 2013

As part of the US Safety Pilot Model Deployment of connected vehicle technologies ( earlier post ), the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) will launch a motorcycle study to determine how cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles interact using V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communications technology.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

All five occupants were transported to the University of Utah hospital,” the department said. The salt flats are often used to test concept vehicles and vehicles built for speed. I recently interviewed one Tesla owner who was hit by a BMW in 2019. Fortunately, all five occupants had non-life threatening injuries.

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MAY 24, 2014

Consortium members in the four-year project include: Opel; Audi; BMW Group; BMW Forschung und Technik; Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen; Continental; Daimler; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft u. The focus is on the human element in all aspects of mobility and traffic.

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APRIL 24, 2015

BMW uses ENGEL duo injection moulding machines to manufacture car body shell components for the BMW i3 electric vehicle. Participating organizations include Technical University of Braunschweig; the Fraunhofer Institute; Volkswagen; Siempelkamp; Engel; Magna; BASF; DowAkza; and Thyssen-Krupp. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 14, 2009

The BMW Group Forschung und Technik, in cooperation with researchers in Graz and Vienna, Austria, has developed a dedicated (i.e., The newly developed combustion system combines the strengths of spark-ignition and diesel concepts, while utilizing the favorable combustion properties of hydrogen to achieve the efficiency values.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The California Energy Commission is awarding the University of California, Berkeley $1.5 million to develop an advanced smart charging technology that maintains plug-in electric vehicle consumer needs while reducing charging loads, to achieve electricity grid benefits.

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JUNE 25, 2015

One priority has been the development of an access concept, which enables a wide variety of providers to contribute services and then make them available to road users. —Horst Wieker, CONVERGE project coordinator and head of the transport telematics research group at the University of Applied Sciences of the Saarland.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

NVIDIA processors are used in a wide variety of embedded applications today, including automobiles made by Audi, BMW, Tesla and Lamborghini, aircraft including the F-22 Raptor, and US Army tanks. University of Utah and the University of Virginia. NVIDIA researchers will work on the program with academic partners at the.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

The Professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology of TU Chemnitz was involved in the project from the start, alongside with BMW and Vattenfall and other university partners. A key element in ACOR is the concept of comfortable range, which represents a psychological foundation for the widely discussed concept of range anxiety.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

The University of Leeds (UK) is leading a £13-million (US$20.6-million), The team hopes that the concepts will then be taken up by vehicle manufacturers and brought to market. The overall aim is to reduce fuel consumption by up to 20%.

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JUNE 25, 2019

The BMW Group is accelerating its electromobility expansion program, with the 25 electrified models to be introduced by 2023, two years earlier than the initial 2025 target. —Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. BMW eDrive Zones standard in plug-in hybrids from 2020.

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MARCH 31, 2011

million), in partnership with 42 partners from the industries, utilities, electric car manufacturers, municipalities, universities and technology and research institutions. The European Commission will support a cross-European electromobility initiative, Green eMotion, worth €41.8 million (US$68.2

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

— Dr. Ralph Rasshofer , BMW Group representative on the Ko-FAS steering committee. The project thus examined different concepts of protection that can be combined with the cooperative sensor systems and that offer considerable potential for preventing accidents or mitigating their consequences.

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MARCH 31, 2023

as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Zipcar offers more than 60 different makes and models of vehicles, including Audis, BMWs, Mini Coopers, pickup trucks, Prius hybrids and more. The company rebranded as Share Now in fall 2019 as BMW’s Reach Now was shut down and folded in with Car2go.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

Delphi and nuTonomy were shortlisted from several participants which submitted proposals for autonomous mobility-on-demand concepts under the Request for Information (RFI) issued by LTA in June last year. Besides mobility-on-demand services, LTA is also exploring SDVs for other public transport applications, such as self-driving buses.).

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Infrastructure control and networking with innovative vehicle concepts and systems. Fraunhofer Institute for Labor Economy and Organization (IAO); GEVAS Software GmbH; Heusch/Boesefeldt GmbH; University of Applied Sciences Technology and Business of the State of Saarland; ifak Magdeburg e.V.; University of Braunschweig; Tech.

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JANUARY 22, 2012

The taskforce has taken recommendations from JARI and developed a draft concept of charging categories per power level, static charging (e.g., residential; public parking; on-site static such as stop lights or bus stops) but not on-road dynamic charging: Concept only types of charging, locations and efficiencies. Source: J2954.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Three of the Midland’s leading universities play a major role in the scheme: Coventry University on the selection of drivers; Aston University in the analysis of vehicle usage; and the University of Birmingham in the use of hydrogen fueling station – theirs is currently one of the very few of its kind in UK.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE kicked off its pioneering pre-competitive research at a time when few contemporary electric cars existed and wireless power transfer (WPT) systems for EVs were an unproven concept. 11-kW Universal Ground Assembly. SAE J2954 establishes a universal Ground Assembly for WPT3, critical especially for public infrastructures.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. The NYU-BMW i study also reports that demand for parking is going to intensify in major cities.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The judges unanimously agreed that it was Mobiliant’s focus on the concept of. The judges also agreed that the Mobiliant concept was optimistic, beautiful and best answered the competition criteria by mimicking a truly sustainable solution that resembled an ancient system that has worked for millions of years.

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APRIL 17, 2014

In 2010, The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Delphi, along with partners Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc (HATCI); Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) for a $7.48-million million grant to develop and to demonstrate a new ultra fuel efficient vehicle (UFEV) vehicle concept.

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MAY 7, 2019

The concept makes use of the semiconductor material gallium nitride. The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF has been conducting research on monolithic integration in the field of power electronics for several years.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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