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Velodyne LiDAR opens “Megafactory” for 3D LiDAR sensors; 1M sensors in 2018

Green Car Congress

Located in San Jose, CA, the facility not only has enough space for high-volume manufacturing and for the precise distance and ranging alignment process for LiDAR sensors as they come off the assembly line. In addition to the San Jose Megafactory, Velodyne LiDAR has also opened a new research and development facility in Alameda, CA.

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Electrify America announces $200M additional investment for ZEV infrastructure and education in California

Green Car Congress

Following the success and key learnings of building EV infrastructure from its previous $400 million investment in California over the last five years, Electrify America will focus the $200 million across three main categories: Infrastructure; Public Education, Awareness, Access & Marketing; and Green Cities. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario.

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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

Green Car Congress

Electrify America plans to build charging infrastructure that will primarily consist of (1) Community charging and (2) A long distance highway network. Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento). Green City.

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CDK debuts megaplatform supposed to streamline dealership tool wishes

Baua Electric

Root and virtual retailing platform Roadster and the 2018 acquire of purchaser dating control tool corporate ELEAD1ONE, amongst others. 1 reason for building the Dealership Xperience platform [came from] listening to our customers,” Edson stated. Those acquisitions helped the improvement of Dealership Xperience, Edson stated.

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Ford acquiring SF-based crowd-sourced shuttle service, launching Ford GoBike

Green Car Congress

Ford and Motivate, a global leader in bike share, are working with city officials to add new stations and increase the number of bikes to 7,000 in the Bay Area by the end of 2018. Ford plans to develop technologies to use data collected from the bikes to build an interconnected mobility network. —Jay Walder, CEO of Motivate.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

Cars That Think

Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the. I pledge to: Global Community Building: Highlight networking opportunities at IEEE events. Life Fellow Thomas M.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018). Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. I've spent 17 years helping companies build software and marketing campaigns. What type of leadership makes you thrive?