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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016. As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster.

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$90M UR:BAN research initiative presenting results on ADAS and traffic management for cities; intelligent vehicles

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Completion date for the consortium’s research work is early 2016. Around 50% of this amount is contributed by the German Federal Ministry for Economy and Energy in the framework of the third traffic research program of the German federal government. Novel techniques are developed on the basis of experimental studies.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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Since January 2016, the MEB has been under the direction of Christian Senger, who was previously in charge of Automotive Systems and Technology at Continental AG. This is about combining these two worlds—the automotive and the digital—so that customers, society and the economy benefit. —Christian Senger.

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