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MAY 25, 2022

The common goal was to revolutionize metal 3D printing in standard automotive production. Around 50,000 components per year can be manufactured cost-effectively in common part production, as well as more than 10,000 individual and new parts, by means of 3D printing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

HARMAN International Industries made a number of connected vehicle technology announcements during CES 2016 last week, including a connected car computing platform, demonstrated in the Rinspeed Σtos concept car; an advanced navigation system with live data fusion; an open cloud-based software delivery system; and a new partnership with Microsoft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Specifically, Ford is: Accelerating the introduction of connected, smart vehicles and services customers want and value. By 2019, 100% of Ford’s new US vehicles will be built with connectivity. The company has similarly aggressive plans for China and other markets, as 90% of Ford’s new global vehicles will feature connectivity by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

SWARCO Traffic Systems and the University of Kaiserslautern announced the formation of the Connected Vehicle to Everything of Tomorrow (ConVeX) consortium to carry out the first Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) trial based on the 3rd Generation Partnership Project’s ( 3GPP ) Release 14, which includes Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. —Gawron et al. —Gawron et al. 7b04576.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Advancements such as connectivity, big data, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence are driving new economic models for automakers, and most see tremendous revenue potential and consumer value in leveraging driver and vehicle data to offer mobility services, according to the 2017 KPMG Global Automotive Executive Study.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

—Sergio Corbera, Head of the Automotive and Mechanical Engineering Area at Nebrija University As a result, a new part that connects the side box of the car with the bargeboard, achieving a 20% weight reduction below the limit set, was 3D printed at the ArcelorMittal laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

million); Fusion Energy Sciences (US$10 million); High Energy Physics (US$17.9 This project will directly couple and evaluate the use of an electrolyzer stack with an offshore wind turbine for hydrogen production. AV-Connect Inc. million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7 million); and Nuclear Energy ($13.4 Automat Solutions, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2015

Current areas of focus include connected mobility; novel human-machine interfaces; supporting app developers through initiatives such as Honda Developer Studio; and computer science research for vehicle intelligence. Honda will embrace and help lead this convergence. —||Honda R&D Americas President, Frank Paluch. ".

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2022

MathWorks Simulink® products now support our latest AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers. Engineers designing advanced electric vehicles or sensor fusion can use the hardware support package, even before silicon is available. link] pic.twitter.com/YsY3AARHRy — Infineon (@Infineon) December 12, 2022.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2024

Sanctuary AI ] The time has come for humanoid robots to enter industrial production lines and learn how to assist humans by undertaking repetitive, tedious and potentially dangerous tasks for them. Walker S is the first bipedal humanoid robot to complete a specific workstation’s tasks on a mobile EV production line.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. Developed in concert with numerous manufacturers, the DRAMA initiative includes the new powder bed fusion AM facility mentioned previously.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

At the same time, a second data fusion takes place in the radar control unit. For these reasons, Audi will initiate series production of the traffic jam pilot in the new A8 incrementally, depending on the legal situation in the respective country. Moreover, varying worldwide homologation procedures and their deadlines must be observed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Delphi Automotive PLC and Mobileye will showcase their Centralized Sensing Localization and Planning (CSLP) automated driving system—which will be ready for production by 2019—on a 6.3-mile mile urban and highway combined public route in Las Vegas for CES 2017. Earlier post.). 360-degree pedestrian sensing. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Since then, through the end of November 2015, the company has sold a total of 447,200 units of an expanded hybrid line-up that includes two plug-in hybrids: the C-MAX Energi (on-sale October 2012) and the Fusion Energi (on-sale February 2013). Ford—the top seller of plug-in hybrid vehicles and second largest electrified vehicle (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2017

Elektrobit (EB), a leading developer of embedded and connected technology solutions for the automotive industry, introduced four new modules for its EB robinos product line: EB robinos Grid Fusion, EB robinos Path Planning, EB robinos Positioning and EB robinos Safety Management.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Illustrating this is a growing number of initiatives, trials, and product launches. V2X use cases will now include collective perception, remote sensor fusion, and cooperative mobility. —Dominique Bonte. These findings are from ABI Research’s V2X and Cooperative Mobility Use Cases report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Xiaomi Corporation and Xpeng Motors have achieved significant progress through in-depth collaboration in developing technologies connecting smart phones and smart cars. The company launched its first production model, the G3 SUV, in December 2018. Xpeng Motors achieved numerous milestones this year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2016

The future self-driving vehicle value chain will be driven by software feature sets, complex algorithms for sensor fusion and motion controls, low system costs, and high performance hardware. By 2025, vehicles will operate with fully centralized systems that incorporate sensor fusion to deliver more features with fewer components (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

The WattStation Connect network will enable Ford to gather information on charging station use. Ford now offers three plug-in vehicles: the battery electric Focus Electric, and the C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrids. Click to enlarge. Ford estimates it will cost about 50 cents to fully charge each vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

TomTom, the leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services, has extended its HD Traffic portfolio of real-time (updates every 2 minutes) traffic products for congestion reduction with the addition of Australia, Canada, Luxembourg and Poland, bringing the total count of countries covered to 18.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Cadillac will begin offering advanced “intelligent and connected” vehicle technologies on certain 2017 model year vehicles, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Sunday during her keynote address at the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) World Congress in Detroit. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. —Mary Barra.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2016

BMW Group, Intel, and Mobileye are collaborating to bring solutions for highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021. This establishes the opportunity for self-driving fleets by 2021 and lays the foundation for entirely new business models in a connected, mobile world.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Offering a Cadillac-estimated 450 miles of range, the Escalade IQ features a curved pillar-to-pillar 55-inch total diagonal LED display, available Super Cruise driver assistance technology, and vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging technology with GM Energy’s available Ultium Home products. Factory ZERO was renovated and retooled with a $2.2-billion

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Now available for pre-order , the new i Series models are designed for yards up to 1/4-acre in size and introduce the company’s updated Exact Fusion Location System 2.0, The standout feature is the improved Exact Fusion Location System 2.0 We harnessed the power of AI robotics to make our tech work hard so consumers don’t have to.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The BMW Group already uses AI throughout the value chain to generate added value for customers, products, employees and processes. And image processing AI relieves both the customer with driver assistance systems from monotonous driving tasks and employees in production from monotonous processing steps. Examples from production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) introduced the first SAE Level 2 automated truck in series production in North America with the latest enhancements to the Freightliner new Cascadia. The fusion of Detroit Assurance 5.0 According to NHTSA, 94% of crashes are attributable to human error. The Detroit Assurance 5.0 safety features.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

engine in the concept featured twin independent variable camshaft timing (TI-VCT)—a powertrain system also being used in the production 2.0L engine, the first EcoBoost production engine to include the system. The 2010 Product Plan. 2010 Ford Fusion and Fusion Hybrid. 2010 Ford Transit Connect. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

With the additional investment, Michigan Assembly will be the production site of next-generation hybrid, plug-in hybrid and full battery electric vehicles, all of which will be built off the company’s new global C-car platform. “We The production site will be announced at a later date. beginning in 2012.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. —Barry Powell, head of Siemens Low Voltage & Products.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research Vehicle merges today’s driver-assist technologies, such as front-facing cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, and adds four Velodyne LiDAR sensors to generate a real-time 3D map of the vehicle’s surrounding environment. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

Mercedes-Benz will introduce Car-to-X (C2X) communication technology into series production vehicles by the end of the year. Connected vehicles Safety V2X' Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As the number and scope of devices connected to networks expands, so too will the role of AI in wireless. Placing electronic communications in areas once mechanical orientated generates large amounts of data as applications like smart cities, telecommunication networks and autonomous vehicles (AV) connect. hzarrink@mathworks.com : •.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Localization of hot spots in solids using acoustic waves, $150,000 Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Cambridge, Mass. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Tustin, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2011

On the heels officially introducing the Focus Electric last week ( earlier post ), Ford revealed two next-generation hybrids—including its first production plug-in hybrid (PHEV)—at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2019

These commands are then implemented by connected ZF systems that enable vehicle motion control and enhanced safety—including chassis, drive, steering system, brakes or occupant safety systems. ZF ProAI RoboThink. The ZF ProAI RoboThink is a completely new design from ZF. ZF ProAI RoboThink board.

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