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DARPA awards up to $20M to NVIDIA to research high-performance, highly energy-efficient embedded processors for autonomous vehicles

Green Car Congress

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. Today’s cars aren’t personal computers—they’re far more complicated.”

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

BMW, for example, claims it will not cut jobs in the transition to EVs, but it is likely that it will still reduce its workforce by both reskilling and attrition like other German automakers are contemplating. Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees.

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