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DARPA awards up to $20M to NVIDIA to research high-performance, highly energy-efficient embedded processors for autonomous vehicles

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University of Utah and the University of Virginia. Two years ago, NVIDIA was tapped to provide processors that power the infotainment system found in the newest Audis and Volkswagens; other brands in the VW Group—Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini Skoda, Porsche, and SEAT—followed. —NVIDIA.

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

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After years of VW selling their “clean diesel” vehicles in the United States that had the cheating software, in March 2014, West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions published the results of a study commissioned by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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seconds, breaking a seven-year-old record for production cars that had been set by the roughly $ 1 million Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid. Porsche, McLaren, and Bentley are all developing hybrid models to bridge the gap, with the Porsche Taycan taking on Tesla on the full-electric front. That roughly equals the Ferrari’s performance.

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Tesla and its Supercharger Network dominate 11-way 1,000-mile EV test

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The vehicles that participated in the test were the Tesla Model S Long Range Plus, Tesla Model Y Performance, Tesla Model 3 Performance, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Porsche Taycan 4S, Kia Niro EV, Audi e-tron, Volkswagen ID.4, 4, Volvo XC40 Recharge, Polestar 2, and Nissan Leaf Plus. The rest of the competition arrived over the following hours.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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And where current Tesla packs feature what Munro calls "a crappy cooling design" with thermal channels between cells—superfluous, because most heat is concentrated at cell ends—Munro says 4680 cells will rest atop a liquid-cooled thermal plate that's become a staple of EVs from GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Porsche, or Rivian.

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