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Volkswagen and LG agree on joint development of next-gen connected car platform

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group and LG Electronics have signed a memorandum of understanding on joint research and development of a next-generation connected car service platform. Going forward, the two companies will work together on Volkswagen’s Cross Over Platform, which is aimed at enhanced vehicle connectivity and convenience.

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Greenius Scores Free LED Holiday Lights from SBESC

Creative Greenius

Creative Greenius, Joe Galliani, with his free LED lights from the South Bay Environmental Services Center Holiday Light Exchange. For the third consecutive year I was able to take advantage of the Holiday Light Exchange offered by my great friends at the South Bay Environmental Services Center.

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BMW Group hits 100K electrified vehicle mark for this year, lights up Group HQ like a battery

Green Car Congress

In recognition of the miletone, BMW used a light installation to transform its Group headquarters—the world-famous “Four-Cylinder” in the north of Munich—on the evening of 18 December 2017 into a battery. This 99-meter-high signal is lighting the way into the era of electro-mobility. We deliver on our promises.

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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

The Truth About Cars

The 2008 Sable was available in just six exterior colors: Light Ice Blue, Dark Ink Blue, Black, Oxford White, Silver Birch and Merlot; it appears that nearly all of them were Dark Ink Blue or Black. At some point in late 2007, here comes a new Mercury Sable Premier in nobody-will-even-notice-me Merlot.

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New Qualcomm Safety Car BMW i8 Coupé makes its debut in Chile; wireless charging

Green Car Congress

The system uses no cable connections and charges this special BMW i8 Coupé (combined fuel consumption: 1.9 Other enhancements include a roll bar, rear wing and rear hatch made of carbon fiber, a front splitter, sports seats from the BMW M4 GTS, 4-point belt, a roof-mounted signal light system, BMW M carbon ceramic brakes and a sports chassis.

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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” Her research focused on the optimization of multilayer organic light-emitting devices to be used in displays. The technology is made by placing thin films of light-emitting organic compounds between two conductors.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

Cars That Think

Because hemoglobin in the red blood cells absorbs visible light, Richards-Kortum’s team developed a fiber-optic probe that can produce images of the underlying network of new vessels. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside.

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