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Detroit Smart Parking Lab opens in September for real-world automated and EV charging testing

Green Car Congress

With the Detroit Smart Parking Lab, we have a cross section of collaborators—from government leaders to mobility and tech companies—that that will empower us to bring innovation to market through collaboration. Collaboration is essential for the future of mobility.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. Audi RS models – performance flagships set to pick up plug-in hybrid tech as early as 2021. Ford Escape PHEV – plug-in hybrid of all-new Escape. Audi RS e-Tron GT.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor. But can this no-nonsense tech veteran come up with a plan to save Yahoo? Bell Labs licensed the technology to all comers.

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High-voltage EV battery packs: benefits and challenges. More voltage, more better?

Charged EVs

These leakage pathways are typically from condensation, but can also occur if electrolyte has escaped from a venting or ruptured cell, an altogether more serious situation in which, arguably, the leakage current would be the least of one’s worries. for the DC link, output filters, etc.).

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GPT-4, AGI, and the Hunt for Superintelligence

Cars That Think

However, as spectacular tech advances often do, they seem also to have unleashed a torrent of misinformation, wild assertions, and misguided dread. But I grant you, for practical applications right now, you can not depend on it. Tech is releasing these very powerful model systems. OpenAI’s latest LLMs—GPT-3.5, Koch: I agree.

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