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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Google to sponsor NASA Green Flight Challenge

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The CAFE Foundation announced that Google will sponsor the NASA Centennial Challenge flight competition known as the Green Flight Challenge (GFC). The aircraft in the Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google represent a diverse mix of singular prototypes created expressly for the competition by some of the world’s top designers.

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2023 Honda Accord features fourth-generation two-motor hybrid system; hybrids to account for 50% of sales

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liter Atkinson cycle 4-cylinder engine that adds direct fuel injection. The top-line Touring features Honda’s first integration of Google built-in. This includes apps such as Google Assistant, Google Maps and more on Google Play for a helpful, personalized and connected driving experience.

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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

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Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Volkswagen presented its latest technologies for reducing fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions—which includes the first 10-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG)—in an Innovation Workshop for the media at the Ehra-Lessien test track facility near Wolfsburg. Mild hybrid: stop-start 2.0 and coasting with engine off. 10-speed DSG.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. Fuel Cell Propulsion. —Mary Barra. Mixed Materials.

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Autonomous electric car technology: Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?

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Environmental pollution by conventional fossil fuel vehicles makes electric vehicles popular. Alternative fuels used in vehicles are also not 100% pollution-free. An autonomous vehicle acts as a personal assistant who can go to the shop and bring some vegetables for you. Why should a self-driving vehicle be all-electric?