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Lightning Hybrids secures order for 35 hydraulic hybrid systems from Kiessling Transit

Green Car Congress

Kiessling Transit’s vehicles, featuring new 2015 and 2016 model year Ford E450 chassis and Elkhart Coach bodies, will have the Lightning Hybrids patented parallel hybrid system installed prior to delivery this summer. —Tim Reeser, president and co-founder, Lightning Hybrids.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

Green Car Congress

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter First tranche.

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Video Friday: Agilicious

Cars That Think

Agilicious is a co-designed hardware and software framework tailored to autonomous, agile quadrotor flight, which has been developed and used since 2016 at the Robotics and Perception Group of the University of Zurich. features the Spot robots from Boston Dynamics in relation with human beings. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

So we basically installed an eye tracking device on our subjects. We also know that Boston Dynamics is actually using only optimal control. Scaramuzza: —the latest one I described, we actually installed an event camera side by side with a very high-resolution standard camera. And so we tried to do the same for human pilots.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

Green Car Congress

Liter Partial Consent Decree entered by the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Background. Background.

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