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GM and SAE International select 8 NA universities for new autonomous vehicle competition; Bolt EV the platform

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At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. This new autonomous vehicle design competition is a three-year challenge to develop and demonstrate a fully autonomous passenger vehicle.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Recently, UBTECH’s humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of NIO’s advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an “intern” assisting in the car production.

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Micron launches low-power memory qualified for automotive safety applications

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The solution is part of Micron’s new portfolio of memory and storage products targeted for automotive functional safety based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262 standard. —Kris Baxter, corporate vice president and general manager of Micron’s Embedded Business Unit.

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Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. They then extracted cells from the two fusion maps that changed from non-urban in 1985 to urban in 2015. In a paper in Nature Sustainability , they report that global urban extent has expanded by 9,687?km

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Ford’s EV+ feature learns frequent destinations and adjusts hybrid powertrain to deliver more electric-only driving

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EV+ is part of SmartGauge and is a standard feature on the Ford plug-in hybrids, C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi, along with the hybrid versions of Fusion and C-MAX. EV+ combines the built-in GPS of Ford SYNC with proprietary software algorithms developed by Ford engineers to learn frequent destinations.

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Mitsubishi Motors running two new MiEV Evolution III electric racers in Pikes Peak Climb

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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will enter two MiEV Evolution III all-electric racecars in the 2014 edition of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (23-29 June). Held annually in Colorado, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an automobile and motorcycle hill climb. The race team will feature the same drivers as last year.

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