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and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. Follow us on Bluesky and LinkedIn , and subscribe to our email list to keep up with future content and announcements. In the end, it’s a wonky (this is a compliment!) Suggested citation: Auffhammer, Maximilian.

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How do you make an abstract topic like climate change feel personal, urgent, and hopeful? In 2016, back when even Europe had barely any charging stations, I set off in an electric car, without money, from the Netherlands to Australia. That’s exactly the challenge I face every time I step on stage as a sustainability speaker.

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JULY 23, 2013

The City of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) are to begin public sidewalk demonstration trials tomorrow of the “Winglet”, a TMC-developed personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.

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JULY 24, 2015

Honda officially opened its new Silicon Valley R&D facility, using the occasion to unveil a refreshed 2016 Accord featuring Honda’s first application of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Honda Sensing also serves as both a technological and perceptual bridge to highly automated cars of the future. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 6, 2017

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered a record 3,870,587 vehicles in China in 2016, which was an increase of 7.1% For comparison, GM brands reported retail sales in the US of 2,446,582 vehicles for CY 2016. Chevrolet deliveries, after a rebound starting in the third quarter, reached 525,273 units in 2016.

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that hybrid vehicles will play a larger role in the future development of automotive propulsion systems than widely recognized. Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future. Today I wish to call on the industry to sell 5 million hybrids in the US by the end of 2016. That’s what it takes.

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JULY 22, 2020

FCA and Waymo have expanded their autonomous driving technology partnership; FCA became Waymo’s first OEM partner in 2016. Together, we’ll introduce the Waymo Driver throughout the FCA brand portfolio, opening up new frontiers for ride-hailing, commercial delivery and personal-use vehicles around the world.

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APRIL 3, 2016

BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. Service Fabric enables the automaker to build individual mobility graphs with personalized data and real-time context.

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Cadillac revealed the Escala Concept, introducing the next evolution of Cadillac design and previewing the craftsmanship and technology being developed for many future models. liter twin-turbo V-8 engine, a prototype of a new system in development for future Cadillac models. Escala uses a new 4.2-liter

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APRIL 30, 2013

From [these organizations’ standpoints], the reason we have to get away from doing nothing is that the public doesn’t fully appreciate or understand the situation it faces with respect to fuels’ futures. ”. Why aren’t we more thoughtful about the future? We haven’t had that conversation yet. ”.

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JULY 30, 2016

More new vehicles in the US were leased in the first half of 2016 than during the first half of any other year in history, according to the latest Lease Market Report from Edmunds.com, the leading car shopping and information network. The average allotted miles has declined from 13,060 in 2005 to 11,999 today.

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MAY 9, 2019

Using data scraped from the application programming interfaces of Uber and Lyft, combined with observed travel time data, the researchers found that between 2010 and 2016, weekday vehicle hours of delay increased by 62% compared to 22% in a counterfactual 2016 scenario without TNCs. Erhardt et al.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

As we accelerate our plan to produce Honda battery EVs in the United States, we also will begin low volume production of fuel cell electric vehicles there to further explore their great potential as part of a sustainable transportation future. —Gary Robinson, vice president of Auto Planning & Strategy for American Honda Motor Co.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Bio-Hybrid GmbH , a company belonging to the Schaeffler Group, will present the near-production Bio-Hybrid ( earlier post )—a new, modern form of personal urban mobility and means of transportation—at CES 2019. The Passenger version offers a new form of personal and design-oriented urban mobility.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Barra said that GM believes the future of personal mobility will be driven by the convergence of electrification, autonomous vehicles, and connectivity and shared mobility services. It will first be rolled out this fall in the US in the Cadillac CT6 and introduced in a future Cadillac product in China.

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MAY 30, 2017

The goal is to work out practical solutions for production processes of the future within 25 hours. They will have 25 hours to do so, as a reminder of Audi’s 25 th hour—the extra hour that drivers will gain in the future with autonomous cars. One example is the idea of the winning team in 2016, Happy Unicorns.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Yi Wei Xing), a leading car-sharing technology solution provider in China, as another move in exploring personal mobility in China. The equity investment follows GM’s global strategy of redefining the future of personal mobility. GM launched its car-sharing service brand Maven in January 2016. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 15, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012.

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MAY 5, 2017

Learnings obtained through data analysis carried out jointly by GM engineers and SJTU researchers and students will be shared with the team responsible for GM’s global personal mobility brand, Maven. Since its launch in January 2016, Maven has been providing multifaceted vehicle sharing services, primarily in North America. The EN-V 2.0

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Under the terms of FCA’s guilty plea, which has been approved by the Court, FCA has agreed to continue to cooperate with the Department of Justice in any ongoing or future criminal investigations relating to this conduct. According to the company’s admissions and court documents, beginning at least as early as 2010, FCA US developed a new 3.0-liter

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JANUARY 6, 2016

As promised, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra unveiled the production 2017 Bolt battery-electric vehicle at CES 2016. The Bolt EV, which will go into production by the end of 2016, will offer more than 200 miles of range on a full charge. —Mary Barra.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The vehicle of the future will be a sensing, planning and acting computer on wheels. Together with the performance and flexibility of NVIDIA’s AI self-driving solution, from the cloud to the car we will achieve new levels of safety, comfort and personalization for future vehicles. Elmar Degenhart, CEO of Continental.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83 In the forecast, global transportation-related energy demand grows close to 30% from 2016 to 2040. l/100 km) now to close to 50 miles per gallon (4.7 l/100 km) in 2040.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Under their strategic mobility partnership concluded in 2016 ( earlier post ), the partners have joined forces to shape the urban mobility of the future and to develop the city as a model for forward-looking, sustainable and integrated urban mobility. An intelligent fully-connected vehicle of the future: the Volkswagen I.D.

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APRIL 14, 2017

These investments will allow Cruise Automation to expand development of self-driving technologies that will transform personal mobility. Expanding our team at Cruise Automation and linking them with our global engineering talent is another important step in our work to redefine the future of personal mobility.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With its potential for societal, economic, and personal upheaval, climate change calls for tools that give us humans orders-of-magnitude more capability. Transistors: past, present, and future How we’ll continue to improve transistor technology is relatively clear in the short term, but it gets murkier the farther out you go from today.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. GM is at the forefront of redefining the future of personal mobility. As Maven grows, the team will use innovative ways of connecting personally with customers. GM President Dan Ammann. Residential.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

At CES 2017, Honda will showcase what it calls a future technology path toward a redefined mobility experience. The emotion engine is the focus of a joint research project with Softbank Corporation that Honda announced in July 2016 to apply the AI technology in mobility products. In August 2016, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

A person wouldn’t be required. A system that operates correctly, yet fails to satisfy the preferences and expectations of the PEV users, may end up limiting future acceptance of such systems and PEVs in general. —Brandon Schoettle. —“Consumer Preferences for the Charging of Plug-In Electric Vehicles”.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Auto manufacturing capacity continues to grow, and annual output could reach the 100 million mark by 2016. Although several countries have issued targets for future EV fleets, it remains to be seen whether these goals can be met. Rising sales translate into an ever-expanding global vehicle parc.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

ORNL began accepting license applications in March 2016. Jackson and several of her ORNL teammates joined LeMond Composites in 2016. Our close proximity to ORNL adds a value beyond measure and we are looking forward to future collaborations with them. On a personal note, the bike riding in this area is incredible.

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JULY 25, 2016

Such as the person in charge and the team manager, or straight from the person responsible to the executive board. … We are convinced it is the right time to bring our management culture in line with the future and thus make our organization more agile and innovative.

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JUNE 25, 2015

CarUnity users can, for example, offer their car only to their Facebook friends or to people in their personal CarUnity network. Expanding the portfolio of mobility services is a key element of Opel’s plan for the future. Private carsharing fits to our brand—after all, approachable is one of our brand values. —Tina Müller.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

BMW said that the success of the BMW i models offers clear evidence of the growing interest in sustainable personal mobility while also providing a valuable shot in the arm for the infrastructure development still required. The technology transfer to the core BMW brand also helps further increase the efficiency of current and future models.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2016

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group; Samsung Electronics; and SAP SE are working together to develop future projects for the connected car. The R&D teams of SEAT, Samsung and SAP are presenting several future connected car concepts at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

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MARCH 15, 2016

is the progenitor of the future smart factory in which computer-driven systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralized decisions based on self-organisation mechanisms. The implementation horizon is to have pilots running in 2016 and full implementation as of about 2025. Industry 4.0

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Future Genesis models will be badged with a new wing-type emblem, redesigned from the version used on the current Genesis model. Future models will be named by combining the letter ‘G’ for Genesis with a number, 90, 80 or 70 etc., The Genesis brand will adopt a new alphanumeric naming structure. representing the segment.

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