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Groupe PSA and Qualcomm advance C-V2X testing for communication between vehicles; demo in March

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C-V2X directly connects vehicles to each other (V2V), to pedestrians (V2P), and to roadway infrastructure (V2I), and to the network (V2N). Since the announcement of trials in February 2017, Groupe PSA and Qualcomm Technologies have been testing C-V2X technology based on 3rd Generation Partnership Program’s (3GPP) over 5.9

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NREL report on electric bus demo at Foothill Transit finds Proterra fuel economy >8x higher than CNG on same line

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Eudy and Jeffers (2017). Availability of the two charging heads was 98% and 99%. Foothill Transit and Proterra reported several key lessons learning since the beginning of the project: Short-range, on-route-charged buses are inflexible and cannot be deployed at other service routes that do not connect to an on-route charging location.

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Suzuki joins Automotive Grade Linux

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The third version of AGL’s connected car platform, the Unified Code Base (UCB), will be on display at CES 2017 in the AGL Demo Suite at the Bellagio Hotel. The AGL platform is available to all, and anyone can participate in its development.

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages. In 2017, Yannis Tsividis wrote a feature article for Spectrum describing his research at Columbia University into the possibilities of digital-analog hybrid computer chips.

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Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility vision builds on electrification, autonomous drive and vehicle intelligence

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It has also driven our development of cutting-edge autonomous drive technologies, which will be available in a range of mass production models by 2020. Many of these advances are already available, as drivers can rely today on vehicles to recognize danger or take appropriate action to enhance safety. Nissan Intelligent Power.

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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Admittedly, this technology isn’t fully available just yet. Edmon de Haro With so much energy available from heat, we’ve ignored another source of power: cold. By connecting a TEG between a hot reservoir and a cold one, the heat differential is captured as electricity. Sound crazy?

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Navistar SuperTruck demo vehicle CatalIST exceeds DOE freight efficiency goal; 50.3% BTE, path to 55%

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To drive improved uptime, International carefully reviewed reliability data and other data collected from OnCommand Connection, the company’s remote diagnostics system, and made multiple enhancements to support increased reliability and serviceability. Fuel economy.