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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Open Source Civic-EV documents moved

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Due to Google removing the Files and Pages feature of Google Groups. All files and documentation at the civic-ev Google group has now been moved to the "civicevkit" Google Site: https://sites.google.com/site/civicevkit/ If you need to access the build instructions or Google Sketch-Up files, please go there now.

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Documenting the Racks

Open Source Civic EV Kit

I also spent most of the afternoon adding documentation to the Civic-EV Google Group with regards to installing the motor/transmission and constructing the battery racks. You can see the latest documents at the following link: [link] Cheers, Tim.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Apple ramps up its ‘secret’ self-driving car testing: Report – ET Auto

Baua Electric

However, new documents show that the company is still testing its own self-driving car. Meanwhile, Google’s Waymo drove 3.7 Meanwhile, Google’s Waymo drove 3.7 million additional miles with passengers in the car, according to separate government documents, said the report. The company drove more than 1.6

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

Teslarati

New documents submitted by Tesla to Fremont, California’s local government show that the automaker is preparing to remove a large gravel area into a new, secure employee parking location as the company’s employee numbers continue to grow. Google Earth). Tesla says in the application that it is a “gravel area.”

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Tesla will make some Superchargers publicly available to other EVs in 2022

Teslarati

In Norway and Sweden, this is evidently on the brink of happening, according to documents uncovered by Twitter user Otto Kristofferson (via Alex Avoigt). The document states (via Google Translate): “Tesla applied to expand five fast-charging stations. Courtesy of @ottoKristoffers pic.twitter.com/HfPhEH1ewB.

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