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How to use Google Maps to find EV charging stations near you – ET Auto

Baua Electric

This new functionality on Google Maps aims to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles and promote a greener environment. To address this issue, Google has introduced an update to its Maps feature. This setting allows Google Maps to display charging stations on the active maps, similar to how it shows gas stations.

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Volvo EX90, Polestar 3 to support Google’s new HD map

Green Car Congress

By integrating Google’s HD map, the automakers will be able to bring together data from the vehicle sensor sets with Google’s precise lane-level and localization data to facilitate assisted driving features such as lane change assistance and Volvo Cars’ Pilot Assist technology, as well as future autonomous driving functionality.

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

Green Car Congress

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. Because Google is smart enough to not only see the opportunity and have the wherewithal to seize it, they also know what to do with it. Being at the beginning stages of bankruptcy and about to stiff their pension obligations. Communications.

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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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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

Cars That Think

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. in language and information technology from Carnegie Mellon , and he specialized in robust speech recognition. That was a really rewarding experience,” he says.

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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

Green Car Congress

For this program, we were able to tap into those existing data streams and put the information to use in a new way. The team achieved these benefits by developing the next generation in vehicle dynamic and powertrain (VD&PT) control software, designed to proactively use “look-ahead” information to anticipate vehicle power demand.

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