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Battelle-R&D Magazine forecast predicts 5.2% growth in 2012 global R&D spending to $1.4+T, largely driven by Asian economies; US companies and tech providers to boost energy R&D spending by 23.1% to $6.7B

Green Car Congress

The Battelle-R&D Magazine annual Global R&D Funding Forecast concludes that global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2% The team from Battelle and R&D Magazine forecast that a 2.1% Highlights of the Industrial R&D section, with information drawn from survey and secondary data, are below.

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Study Shows Ensuring Reproducibility in Research Is Needed

Cars That Think

About 60 percent of IEEE conferences, magazines, and journals have no practices in place to ensure reproducibility of the research they publish. According to the study , when people signed an honesty declaration at the beginning of an insurance policy form, rather than the end, they were less likely to lie about the information they provided.

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Continental considers sale of ContiTech auto unit amid broader reorganization, document says

Baua Electric

Consistent with Supervisor Magazin , that unit — specialised in belts and sealing programs with income of greater than 2 billion euros ($2.2 9 at the Car Information listing of the govern 100 world providers with international gross sales to automakers of $25.4 Continental ranks Deny. billion in 2022.

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Audi Neckarsulm wins European Automotive Lean Production competition; big data, smart factory

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The trade magazine Automobil Produktion and the consulting company Agamus Consult award the prize each year in recognition of production facilities that apply the factors of production in a particularly efficient manner. billion possibilities, an algorithm calculates the best sequence for each assembly line.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part I)

The Truth About Cars

for Driver Aid, Information, and Routing, the system was far from navigation in the sense of the word today. Those three methods put together provided enough information for route guidance, which GM called the “route minder.” Punched segments in the card informed the system of the desired destination. Called D.A.I.R.,

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Robots and the Humans Who Make Them

Cars That Think

When IEEE Spectrum editors are putting together an issue of the magazine, a story on the website, or an episode of a podcast, we try to facilitate dialogue about technologies, their development, and their implications for society and the planet.

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CATL has begun mass production of Qilin Battery, report says

CN EV Post

CATL's innovation was named the best invention of 2022 by Time magazine in the US, according to information shared by the battery maker on Weibo on December 30 of last year. The Qilin Battery can achieve energy densities of 255Wh/kg with ternary cells and 160Wh/kg with LFP cells, CATL previously said.

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