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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

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Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Technology leaders hold the power. Elections bring populists to power in the world’s largest democracies; nationalism grows. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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As a platform that matches buyers and sellers, Amazon has considerable market power and leverage. asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. Google also has a huge base of both consumer and business users.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars.

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