Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Legged robots have the potential to become vital in maintenance, home support, and exploration scenarios. Filmed in July 2017, this video shows Atlas walking through a “hatch” on a pitching surface. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

XL Hybrids’s XLP plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) upfit solution ( earlier post ) will roll out on Ford F-150 pickup trucks beginning fourth quarter 2017. The XLP Fleet-Ready technology is the industry’s first ship-thru upfit on pickup trucks from a leading OEM. The XLP system will have no special maintenance requirements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The vessel is being built at GONDAN Shipbuilders, in Asturias, Spain, and the order with Wärtsilä was booked in December 2017. We are very pleased to be getting a tug that reflects the future needs of the industry. The Wärtsilä HY product’s operational flexibility will yield significant fuel, emissions, and maintenance cost savings.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Minda, CMD, Uno Minda Edited excerpts: Q: After two consecutive years of swift growth in the auto component industry ‘s performance, what is your outlook for 2024? The past two years have seen a remarkable transformation in the Indian auto and auto component industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

The European debut follows its global media reveal in Shanghai, China, in late 2017. Electromobility is the main focus of today’s automotive industry, and Polestar is at the center of this development, introducing world-class electrified cars and ground-breaking, customer-focussed services and offers. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

The total cost to expand to 68 stations, and provide operations and maintenance support until the stations become profitable is estimated at $65 million. With an estimated 53,000 vehicles on the road in the 2017 timeframe, more than 100 stations would be necessary to ensure the network has enough capacity for these additional vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The coach was manufactured by Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Remote diagnostics through direct or wireless connection allows customer to remotely monitor performance data and anticipate preventative maintenance. The bus was a 12-meter (40-foot) city bus with a powertrain built by UpPowerTech.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. People, Power, and the Sun: Honnold Foundation x Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Although most microgrids today operate independently, one way to get the maximum benefit from them is to connect them, letting them share resources wherever and whenever possible. percent to 2.8

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2022

Submitted to the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee in support of Senate Bill 307: Accelerating Ohio's Auto Industry By Tim Benford, president of Drive Electric Dayton. Because our EVs Internet-connected computer systems know where all charging stations are located, finding one is easier than finding a gas station.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CSAIL Alliances is a gateway into the lab for organizations seeking a closer connection to the work, researchers and students of CSAIL. For example, until now production maintenance staff either had to search through huge amounts of documents or fall back on their personal experience to get information about machine defects.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Volkswagen Truck & Bus is focusing on automated driving, connectivity, and alternative drive systems. The vehicle will be shipped to selected customers by the end of 2017. We plan to deliver the first nine fully electric trucks to our customers in Austria by the end of 2017 – including large supermarket chains, breweries and haulers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In response to derailments, the focus of industry and regulators was on reducing the severity of incidents by making relevant tank cars more crashworthy and resistant to thermal failure. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Safely Transporting Hazardous Liquids and Gasses in a Changing U.S. Energy Landscape.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

They include the desire to increase the driving range of more modestly priced electric cars from 150 to well over 500 km, and the need to lower the cost and provide maintenance-free technologies for grid applications. When the electrodes are externally connected, redox reactions proceed in tandem at both electrodes to deliver energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In addition to numerous new products, Volkswagen Truck & Bus is emphasizing alternative drives and connected commercial vehicles. RIO will connect all players in the supply chain—shippers, dispatchers, carriers, drivers and recipients—with a uniform information and application system including forecasting features.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 23, 2021

The Cadillac User Experience, or CUE System , is designed to provide a complete suite of infotainment, navigation and communication tools for keeping the driver connected. This is one area where GM is the industry leader and, after the trial service plan expires, it is well worth renewing. First Drive: 2017 Land Rover Discovery TD6.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is followed by a coffee shop or café with Wi-Fi to improve connectivity while they wait for their vehicle to charge (42%) to increase productivity during this otherwise wasted downtime. On the more practical side, 1 in 4 EV drivers are looking for other maintenance services being provided onsite (26%). Base: Non-EV drivers.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Cadillac User Experience, or CUE System is designed to provide drivers with a complete suite of infotainment, navigation and communication tools for keeping the driver connected. This is one area where GM is the industry leader, and after the initial service plan expires, it is well worth renewing. News: BMW iX EV.

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EV Adoption

JULY 4, 2022

In the 20 year period of 1997-2017, the average miles per gallon (MPG) of new passenger cars increased to 39.4 Earlier this year, new CAFE standards require an industry-wide fleet average of approximately 49 mpg for passenger cars and light trucks in model year 2026. MPG from 28.7. This is an increase of 10.7 miles or 37 percent.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Allison first announced the 9-speed model in 2017 at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta. With its deep first gear ratio and industry-leading ratio coverage, the Allison 9-speed transmission provides fuel savings as the efficient gear train allows the torque converter to lock up early in first gear.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 30, 2021

Low Maintenance – no periodic discharge is needed; there is no memory. The lithium-ion batteries used in EVs are not a single unit but a large number of individual cells connected. If the number of hybrid and electric vehicles fueled by rechargeable lithium batteries grows, the lithium industry will benefit. Key points.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As one point of comparison, customers bought 54,451 Nissan LEAFs EVs in fiscal year 2017—a 15% increase from 47,423 a year earlier. Volkswagen is one of the most successful platform developers in the automotive industry. MEB Architecture. The modular electric drive matrix (MEB) is the technological backbone of the ID family.

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Charged EVs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Proterra Energy division offers a turnkey electrification solution for fleets, including financing, charging infrastructure and maintenance. DuoPower, which is a new drivetrain offering that goes into our transit buses, is sort of an amalgamation of different components that we’ve selected or made to spec using industry partners.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As standard equipment across the Alltrack line, the MIB II infotainment system not only creates the foundation for the next generation of Volkswagen’s Car-Net connected vehicle services platform, but also offers one of the most comprehensive suites of connected vehicle services and features available in the automotive industry today.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For property developers, this added investment provides many opportunities to stay competitive in the real estate market and become part of a sustainable future — so as not to be left behind by the quickly evolving developments in transportation electrification and their impacts on the real estate industry.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It is—as with a few things Tesla—it provided the model for what the rest of the industry is now trying to do. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It is—as with a few things Tesla—it provided the model for what the rest of the industry is now trying to do. He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

While there’s no doubt that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has set back the automotive industry in what was to be a crucial year for the electric vehicles (EVs) market , EVs have an important role to play in reshaping the future as many people are already lobbying for sustainable ways to rebuild the economy when the pandemic ends.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Its weight-saving and range-extending capabilities making it interesting for a variety of automotive and non-automotive applications, including various industrial appliances in markets around the world. Techrules has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CRRC, the world’s largest supplier of rail transit equipment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A full charge on an industrial outlet thus takes less than two-and-half hours. With the e-tron services in the Audi connect portfolio, drivers can use their smartphones to control such functions as charging and heating or cooling. Market launch is scheduled to begin in 2017. The company hopes to launch AWC in 2017.

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EV Connect

MARCH 8, 2021

According to industry statistics, the European Union had 224,538 fully functional public charging stations, as of the end of 2020. Starting in 2017, the Germany-based company IONITY set out to address this problem. Quite simply, the sooner the stations are standardized, the sooner EVs become the norm. Get in touch today.

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