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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

Green Car Congress

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. The cars clocked 750 hours of drive time and gathered 150 million data points, correlated with data from EPA stationary measurement sites. Aclima, Inc.,

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Jaguar I-Pace electric car to join Waymo's self-driving car fleet

Green Car Reports

British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover and Waymo said Tuesday the carmaker would sell Google's autonomous-car technology arm up to 20,000 of its new all-electric Jaguar I-Pace SUV to be used in self-driving service by 2020.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Twenty percent of the food consumed in America is eaten in cars. Approximately 1.5 —Anthony Levandowski.

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Google's Investment in Transphorm Could be Good News for Electric Cars

All Cars Electric

Google said today it had invested in a startup called Transphorm, whose power-conversion efficiency technology could some day help create more efficient electric cars.

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Tesla’s Fremont factory workforce is growing and the automaker is preparing for it

Teslarati

Currently, the site is a storage area for what appears to be scrap parts, according to an ariel photograph provided by Google Maps. ” It is located directly next to Fremont’s Test Track , where Tesla reviews the performance of some of its cars before release. Google Earth).

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Jaguar I-PACE Electric Car Community Meetup

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal The PluginIndia team had the opportunity to create content on the award winning Jaguar I-PACE electric car. Google maps had decided to act up - and we chose to unGoogle ourselves and go by memory for a change. Priyadarshan has converted one of his goat sheds into a meeting area. We were billed Rs.