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Audi introducing V2I Traffic Light Information service in Europe

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From July, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt/Germany; further European cities will follow from 2020 onwards. —Andre Hainzlmaier, head of Development of Apps, Connected Services and Smart City at Audi. From here, the information reaches the car via a fast Internet connection.

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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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The close dialog between the main players is also intended to speed up previously lengthy and complex planning and application processes for network connections. The heavy-duty electric truck Mercedes-Benz eActros with a range of around 200 km is being tested by customers in Germany and Switzerland as part of the eActros “innovation fleet”.

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Daimler Trucks to invest €500M in highly automated trucks; stepping away from platooning, shooting for L4 automation

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Active lateral control and the connection of longitudinal or lateral control in all speed ranges are new thanks to the fusion of radar and camera information. The main location is Daimler Trucks & Buses new Automated Truck Research & Development Center in Portland, Oregon. Daimler Trucks reassessing the benefits of platooning.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. El Centro, Calif. Dominion Energy, Richmond, Va.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Rustam Kocher: It is. It’s called Electric Island.

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Siemens installing Sitras supercap-based stationary energy storage unit for TriMet light right substation

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Siemens is currently installing the first Sitras SES (stationary energy storage) Energy Storage Unit with supercapacitor technology in the US on the new TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. Installation of the Sitras Energy Storage Unit also allows TriMet to avoid placing a utility-connected substation in the same location.

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SSB Flex mobility service launches in Stuttgart on 1 June

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SSB Flex is the first on-demand service in Germany approved by the Stuttgart Regional Council as a regular passenger service under the German Passenger Transportation Act ( Personenbeförderungsgesetz – PBefG ). When a customer uses the SSB Flex app, the app locates the passenger and shows them possible connections to their destination.