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MAY 21, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2014 BMW i3 REx extended-range electric car gets an EPA-rated 39 mpg on gasoline, Nissan unveils New Orleans'' first public electric-car charging station, and Google and General Motors collaborate on a ride-sharing test. Google gets Chevrolet Spark EV electric cars for a.'

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Audi of America will launch its first 4G LTE service with the new Audi connect system in A3 models due Spring 2014. Initially, the new Audi connect 4G LTE service will allow enhancements, such as smoother renderings of the Google Earth and Google Street View features that come with Audi MMI navigation plus. Earlier post.).

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JULY 22, 2022

Chevron, Google, Reimagined Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, and TIFF Investment Management are among the company’s most recent investors, along with a large US West-coast-based mutual fund manager and a big US pension fund. Google continues to be an exceptional computational AI and machine learning partner for TAE.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., He worked at Microsoft for three years before joining Google.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The list includes notable leaders in artificial intelligence such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as well as Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. When DeepMind was bought out by Google in 2014, Musk became concerned that the tech giant would not take AI safety seriously.

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JUNE 26, 2014

Android Auto made its debut at the 2014 Google I/O annual technology conference in San Francisco as the first innovation resulting from the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)—a coalition of tech companies and auto industry leaders launched in January by Google, NVIDIA, Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai committed to bringing the Android platform to cars. (..)

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JANUARY 7, 2014

The announcement was made today at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. The new Audi connect 4G LTE service will allow faster Google Earth and Google Street View enhancements to Audi MMI navigation plus.

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JULY 29, 2014

The Cadillac ELR is the first model to be announced in what the company expects to be three new premium model announcements by the end of 2014. After two years of field trials with partners such as Google, Hertz, and Duke Energy, the Plugless System was made available to individual Nissan LEAF and Chevrolet Volt owners in early 2014.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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AUGUST 7, 2017

In Germany, the mobility app moovel—available to download free of charge from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store—combines local public transport, the carsharing provider car2go, mytaxi, rental bicycles and Deutsche Bahn. The Familonet app, with 2 million registered users, will still be offered in the future.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

In a note following the 2014 Automated Vehicle Symposium, Lux Research said : “ The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong. ” Multiple times, we heard the phrase “But Google says.”

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MARCH 2, 2015

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Winterkorn introduced Future Tracks at the Geneva Show in 2014, saying that over the next few years, the automotive industry will face one of the greatest upheavals since the invention of the automobile. —Prof.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These will include a Point-of-Interest (POI) Search via Google; map display provided by the Google Earth mapping service; the Google Street View function; and Online Traffic Information. Launch from autumn 2014. Launches subsequently follow in Russia (end of 2014) and North America and Asia (early 2015).

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MAY 25, 2012

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. Google believes that a future state with having computers drive cars can “ remove a gigantic chunk ” of the US fatalities.

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APRIL 11, 2017

From 2012 to 2014 Plugless systems were rigorously testing in the field at more than a dozen “Apollo” trial partner sites – including installations at Google, Duke Energy, and Hertz. In 2014 Plugless began selling 3.3kW wireless EV chargers for Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF. 1 st wireless EV charging field trials.

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MARCH 4, 2015

AT&T and Audi enabled the first-ever in-vehicle 4G LTE data connection in North America in 2014. The new Audi connect 4G LTE service will allow faster Google Earth and Google Street View enhancements to MMI navigation plus. Audi and AT&T announced that 2016 model year Audi vehicles will offer AT&T 4G LTE or 3G coverage.

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JULY 29, 2013

The standard is expected to be available everywhere by the end of 2014. The MMI navigation plus uses LTE to deliver the tailored services of Audi connect to the driver – from navigation with Google Earth and Google Street View to Audi music stream web radio and online traffic information.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Frost & Sullivan analysis discovered that every new car will be “connected” by 2014, either via an embedded or tethered platform, making cars the third most connected “devices” behind mobile phones and tablet computers. A life changing impact of connectivity will be the driverless car, and no one other than Google is leading it.

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JUNE 29, 2015

China surpassed the United States for the largest electric vehicle market in the world, by sales volume, in late 2014.The billion in sales in 2014. The initial investment of $1.6 million is the first phase of a planned further partnership with Evatran to introduce wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging product to China.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

In 2013, Evatran completed field trials of wireless EV charging in partnership with Google, Hertz, SAP and Duke Energy and in March of 2014, began selling directly to EV owners in the United States and Canada. This relationship with Evatran is part of several key strategic investments by VIE in new vehicle technologies.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. In the nearer term, by 2014, success will be measured at 5% or 6% of that market. million by 2020.

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MAY 7, 2014

Statistics indicate that in 2013 and 2014, American automotive companies caught up in a big way, having registered the highest number of patent publications. What’s more, IT companies—and not just the giants such as Google—are muscling their way into the automotive segment by patenting products in the Car2X technology field.

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JULY 15, 2016

In 2013, Evatran completed field trials in partnership with Google, Hertz, SAP and Duke Energy. In March of 2014, Plugless EV charging became available to EV owners across the United States and Canada. —Evatran CEO Rebecca Hough. Plugless is the first and only wireless EV charger available for purchase by EV drivers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The company expects the facility to be in operation before the end of 2014, producing high-octane cellulosic gasoline and biochar from wood biomass.

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MAY 3, 2021

Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. Each Tesla Model S built after October 2014 has a software upgradable to ADAS as we reported recently. No one was hurt.

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MARCH 31, 2014

The company broke ground on its first biofuel production facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 26 February 2014. Funding also came from existing investors BP, Energy Technology Ventures (GE, ConocoPhillips and NRG Energy), Google Ventures and the Constellation division of Exelon.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The new app recognizes more than 45 major features of the Sonata and is available for free download on the Apple App store and Google Play. In 2014, the Hyundai Assurance Car Care mobile and in-vehicle app arrived as another convenient option for accessing car care services and vehicle information.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Ford is investing $1 billion over the next five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021 ( earlier post ), and for potential license to other companies.

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JUNE 22, 2015

KKR’s investment follows initial rounds of funding led by funds affiliated with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Foundation Capital, Google Ventures, Soros Quantum Strategic Partners, INCJ, Fujitsu, Transphorm will use this funding to support its growth, product innovation and expansion.

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JUNE 6, 2013

In both gearbox versions, the new Golf GTD conforms to the Euro-6 emissions standard that takes effect in 2014. Another new option is Car Net for transmitting online information such as the Google Earth map service. As an option, Volkswagen offers the GTD with an automatic dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) with fuel consumption of 4.5

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MARCH 27, 2013

announced that the all-new 2015 Audi A3 sedan will arrive in US showrooms in the first quarter of 2014. Audi of America also confirmed that it will offer the A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in gasoline electric hybrid (PHEV) model in the US market later in 2014. These may be the driver’s own photos or scenes from Google Maps Street View.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

New technology innovations and business models, namely from Tesla and Uber, as well as deep-pocketed competitors such as Google and Apple, are entering the automotive and emerging mobility markets. Even so, current auto sales and profits remain strong. Innovation and market disruption.

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MAY 7, 2022

Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Months after I left, Google changed its mind. Today, Google Nest is alive and well, and they’re still making new products, creating new experiences, delivering on their version of our vision.

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APRIL 13, 2015

The new estimates for the total opportunity exceed those of previous Lux Research reports due to a combination of stronger-than-expected automotive sales in 2014 and a more granular approach to the sensors and technologies that enable ADAS features. billion today to $102 billion in 2030, corresponding to a 26% CAGR.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

km) northwest of NASA’s LC-39B Space Launch System (SLS) pad and 3 miles (5 km) northwest of LC-39A, which SpaceX has leased since 2014 and launched out of since 2017. NASA + Google Maps). The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6 LC-49’s potential location is highlighted here.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Losses for the quarter widened to $230 million, an increase over the $75-million loss in Q3 2014. R&D spending remained above Q3 2014. Wheeler joins Tesla after 13 years at Google Inc. where he was Vice President of Finance and led Google’s global finance function. Total Q3 non-GAAP revenue was $1.24

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