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Qualcomm and TomTom partner on crowdsourcing high-definition mapping data for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

Qualcomm Technologies is working with TomTom on using the Qualcomm Drive Data Platform for high-definition (HD) map crowdsourcing, to accelerate the future of autonomous driving. Now that cars are increasingly connected and equipped with a range of sensors, new and complimentary approaches become possible.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink was Ukraine’s most downloaded app last Sunday

Teslarati

This past Sunday, the Starlink mobile app, which allows users to connect to Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, became the most downloaded application from the Apple App Store in Ukraine. Overall, it appears that Ukrainian users are definitely warming up to Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet.

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Eos Energy launches $500M Project AMAZE with $398.6M conditional loan guarantee from DOE; long-term zinc-based storage

Green Car Congress

Eos Z3 battery module Z3 battery modules store electrical energy through zinc deposition. The bipolar structure simplifies internal battery connections to reduce internal resistance and improve round-trip efficiency. The project secured an up to $398.6-million

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Green Car Congress

We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation. Maybe it’s just a pontoon bridge, but it’s definitely a bridge. Importance of advanced power electronics.

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Mopar Teases Electric Crate Swap, Maybe

The Truth About Cars

The annual SEMA show in Las Vegas is rapidly approaching, meaning car companies will surely be dangling umpteen teaser images of what they’ve in store for this soirée in the desert. The slab-flat hood definitely looks like a late-‘60s Charger, given the scalloped lines and overall shape. .&

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Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

Cars That Think

As part of the IEEE’s Industry Connections Program , it will bring together experts from both industry and academia to help map out the innovations that will be needed to make the metaverse a reality. But in a persistent virtual world the current status of the virtual world needs to be stored constantly.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

believe it means the individual connection / charger / port / hardware. First, according to the AFDC database, as of May 15, 2022 there were 47,600 Level 2 and DC fast charging locations with more than 118,00 ports (charging connections – this language is yet another issue). And from a technical perspective this makes sense.

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