Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The 2018 Toyota Camry is the latest generation of the car that launched a category—the mid-size hybrid sedan—way back in 2007. While competitors in that segment now include the Chevrolet Malibu, Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, and Kia Optima, the Camry Hybrid remains one of the most popular and best-selling hybrid sedans.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid test vehicles—making it the largest in the automotive industry, according to the company—and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company further accelerates its autonomous vehicle development plans. Advances in sensing, software and hardware.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

In 2007, Boss navigated 60 miles (97 km) of mixed traffic, intersections and stop signs in less than six hours to win the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Urban Challenge competition. Automated driving requires the fusion of input from advanced sensors to provide 360 degrees of crash risk awareness. Boss” Kettering.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, Johnson Controls began supplying batteries for Ford’s Fusion Auto Start-Stop vehicle. Since 2007, Johnson Controls has produced 28 million AGM batteries. The battery keeps the vehicle’s accessories with electronic systems on, and then restarts the engine when the driver’s foot releases the brake pedal or engages the clutch.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Cadillac’s Super Cruise uses a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data. GM and Carnegie Mellon University demonstrated this when the “Boss,” our fully autonomous Chevy Tahoe, won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007. Click to enlarge.

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All Cars Electric

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Per the press release linked below, Ford experienced a very strong year over year increase of 67% in their sales of hybrids, selling nearly 31,000 units and breaking their previous record, set in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The EyeQ4 would support fusion with radars and scanning-beam lasers in the high-end customer functions. Mobileye’s EyeQ chip and algorithms have been integrated into new car models since 2007. Series production is supported for early 2018 start of production. The first million-chip celebration took place in the middle of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

In 2007, Carnegie Mellon’s then state-of-the-art driverless car, BOSS, took home the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Urban Challenge, which pitted the leading autonomous vehicles in the world against one another in a challenging, urban environment. The tracking system comprises two basic layers: the sensor and the fusion layer.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 13, 2022

Her areas of interest include multisensor data fusion, intelligent systems, and cybersecurity in aerospace systems. She is a distinguished lecturer for the society and has given talks on signal processing, multisensor data fusion, and neural systems. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

There were 26 selling days in January 2009, compared to 25 selling days in January 2007. The Fusion was the top-selling car, with 8,152 units, down 11.2% Still, Ford’s F-Series truck and Fusion mid-size sedan brought Ford a fourth consecutive month of retail market share increases. Click to enlarge. to 61,889 units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

The industry’s first eco-friendly cylinder head cover is used in the 2010 Ford Fusion and Escape. Repurposed nylon carpeting made into nylon resin and molded into cylinder head covers for Ford’s 3.0-liter liter Duratec engine. The natural fiber replaces energy-inefficient glass fibers commonly used to reinforce plastic parts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This data bypasses the fusion process. TomTom has used the anonymous GPS measurements, globally, to build a comprehensive picture of road-network performance; since 2007, more than 4 trillion anonymous consumer-driven GPS based measurements have been collected from TomTom users around the world. Historical traffic information.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

The generator portion of the system can then be downsized, modular, removable, and easily able to utilize any one of a number of technologies such as ICE, Micro Turbine, Stirling, to perhaps even FuelCell and Mr. Fusion. Full - Spin used to differentiate vehicles with EV-Only modes, though which do not use Electric Fuel sources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The number of vehicles that might be issued these stickers was ultimately capped at 85,000, a limit that was reached in 2007; all yellow stickers expired on 1 July 2011. The only vehicles eligible to date for green stickers are the Chevrolet Volt, Ford C-Max Energi, Ford Fusion Energi, Toyota Prius Plug-In, and Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Remember the troubles of 2007 and the credit crunch? With 2012 now here, nearly half a decade has passed – and Ford is celebrating the New Year in style. For the first time since that fateful year, the Ford brand has topped two million vehicle sales in a single year. The milestone makes it the [.].

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

greater investment in technologies that are either more nascent or have had trouble getting off the ground, including: nuclear fusion, a long-held dream that is just this side of physically impossible but that would simultaneously be far safer and more powerful than the nuclear fission approach that’s been used to date.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA SZ (1) 6753.T

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2013

Standouts include the Chevy Malibu (went from 20 to 29 mpg), the Honda Accord (went from 24 to 30 mpg), the Nissan Altima (went from 26 to 31 mpg), the Ford Escape (went from 19 to 25 mpg), and the Ford Fusion (went from 21 to 26 mpg.). This number has decreased since it peaked in 2007, when 15.5 million new vehicles were registered.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels.

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