Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2015

Chris Urmson, director of self-driving cars at Google, said at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that the company has started talks with most of the world’s top automakers and assembled a team of global suppliers to speed its push to bring self-driving cars to market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a result, public transportation organizations, taxi companies, and transport service providers will be able to deploy their fleets considerably more efficiently while minimizing waiting times for passengers. Public transport organizations and taxi companies in large cities are highly interested in managing their fleets efficiently.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2014

Android Auto made its debut at the 2014 Google I/O annual technology conference in San Francisco as the first innovation resulting from the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)—a coalition of tech companies and auto industry leaders launched in January by Google, NVIDIA, Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai committed to bringing the Android platform to cars.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. If we want to build technology that has meaningful community input, then we need to really think about what’s best. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One type of company that is set to reap the rewards of the country’s transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is parking management companies. Where some EV charging companies only design hardware or network, Blink provides both. Here are a few considerations for parking operators.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Transportation as a service, or TaaS as it is known colloquially, has been the main focus of Waymo, the self-driving spin off of Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google. Primarily, vehicles intended for Taas duty need to be easy for people to get in and out of. They don’t need blazing acceleration or knock […].

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center’s existing LC-39A pad, NASA has revealed the company’s plans for an entirely different Starship launch site just a few miles to the north. NASA + Google Maps).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Explaining the longstanding preference for software startups among VCs, Andreessen said, “There are so many more things that can go wrong in a hardware company. There are so many more ways a hardware company can blow up in a nonrecoverable way.” There is no company that does 100 percent in-house.” Aerospace is a team sport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of safely advancing the future of mobility. headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint. —Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2021

NVIDIA will acquire DeepMap, a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. DeepMap was founded five years ago by James Wu and Mark Wheeler, veterans of Google, Apple and Baidu, among other companies. AVs, however, require much greater precision. Finally, they must be able to function worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. The AWC project is led by independent transmission company Trans-Elect. Source: Google. million households, when fully complete. million households, when fully complete.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exist, it isn’t, says Ryan Babbush, head of quantum algorithms at Google. “We How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

Cool Planet Energy Systems, a renewable fuels and biochar company ( earlier post ), closed on its targeted $100 million Series D financing. The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2023

On the identical day, GM stated its later electrical automobiles would no longer do business in Apple CarPlay or Android Auto smartphone connectivity, because it rather plans to put into effect its personal embedded instrument answer, evolved with Google. “You look at the recent GM announcement to stop using Apple CarPlay.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

AI company Hugging Face estimated the carbon footprint of its BLOOM large language model across its entire life cycle, from equipment manufacturing to deployment. The company found that BLOOM’s final training emitted 50 tonnes of CO 2 —equivalent to about a dozen flights from New York City to Sydney. It’s not just lines of code.

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Teslarati

MARCH 25, 2024

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta has gained its latest member, who joins the team after working at Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing system being developed by Google parent company Alphabet. Qi notes that he has been with Waymo since 2019, after deciding between job offers from both the Alphabet-owned company and Tesla.

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JUNE 9, 2023

to help support the production of the company’s 4680 cell technology. The building, which is owned by real estate investment trust Prologis, was initially set to be a manufacturing hub for Applied Materials, but the company pulled out of its lease. Tesla signed a lease for 48401 Fremont Blvd.,

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2024

In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that by the end of this year, the company will have installed 350,000 Nvidia GPUs —the specialized computer chips used to train AI models—to power its AI research. But after a couple of years she decided to return to a hands-on role at the company. “I

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Google Play Store has also gained a rich variety of apps that offer interactivity and entertainment, from playing games to streaming series.” The Polestar 2 launched with the Google Android Automotive OS, which is the same software its cars use today.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 6, 2021

As of this week (8 August), all of Big Blue's quantum processors will use a hexagonal layout that features considerably fewer connections between qubits —the quantum equivalent of bits—than the square layout used in its earlier designs and by competitors Google and Rigetti Computing. Google didn't respond to an interview request.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. While there, he investigated how to build hardware to run more modern business applications and Web services. air defense system.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. MegaOne builds projectors. Rajagopalan is the LaSAR Alliance's chair.

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JULY 20, 2023

The Silicon Valley company plans to keep adding Condor Galaxy installations next year until it is running a network of nine supercomputers capable of 36 exaflops in total. And the Silicon Valley company is not alone. Big players such as Amazon , Google , Meta , and Microsoft have their own offerings.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. He coined the phrase “age of automobility” to describe this future in his book, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car And How It Will Reshape Our World (2018). He received a B.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. As you can imagine, companies are aggressively recruiting engineers with this cross-functional knowledge. Help build the future of assistive technology! The university is also home to a sister degree, the.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Tesla has been developing and building cells at factories for many years. Not only did the company develop cells within the walls of the Fremont factory at one point, but it also built prototype cells of the recent 4680 chemistry at a facility nearby known as Kato Road. Credit: Google Maps. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2019

Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on improving transportation for all people by building the world’s most experienced driver. The Alliance of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi has a global footprint and portfolio covering every segment of passenger and light commercial vehicles.

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APRIL 1, 2023

| NIO US | NIO HK | NIO SG (Image credit: CnEVPost) The man at the helm of NIO (NYSE: NIO) reiterated that the company's battery swap stations network is open to other brands, and compared the service to a cloud service.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2023

The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“At Mercedes-Benz, we are dedicated to building the world’s most desirable cars,” says Ola Källenius, Mercedes-Benz CEO. is a partnership with Google. Integrating products like Google Maps and other purpose-built features will hopefully make phone integration better than ever.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

However, creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Roads can be occluded by, for example, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task, however.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Aalyria, a recent spinout from Google , is trying to build on other companies’ near successes. The company is revamping the software platform from the ambitious-yet-failed startup Loon to optimize and reconfigure networks in real time, using whatever connections are available.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2020

The ~€100-million investment provides Audi with a head start in terms of setup and operation expertise for the hardware and software of such charging concepts while also allowing the company to pilot a new business area of mobility. The company already offers expansive charging capacities at the training centers at Munich Airport.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has completed an investment in US-based startup DeepMap. DeepMap is a software company focused on solving the mapping and localization challenge for autonomous vehicles. Earlier post.). —RBVC Managing Director Dr. Ingo Ramesohl.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. Bill Merritt, President and CEO of InterDigital, the mobile and video technology research and development company.

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JULY 12, 2019

Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG are expanding their global alliance to include electric vehicles—and will collaborate with Argo AI to introduce autonomous vehicle technology in the US and Europe. Volkswagen is joining Ford in investing in Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology platform company. Earlier post.).

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