Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2022

TU Berlin ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. Michigan Robotics ] Thanks, Bruce! HiPeR Lab ] Two EPFL research groups teamed up to develop a machine-learning program that can be connected to a human brain and used to command a robot.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 5, 2023

In the past, Stellantis planned to use 2 battery cell chemistries to ensure affordability in its electric vehicles. The review mirror is connected to biometric cameras, which observe the RAM 1500 Revolution’s surrounding environment. Unlike other STLA platforms—which are unibody—the STLA Frame platform is a body-on-frame.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After the state of Michigan pledged in 2021 to complete a wireless charging road by this year , Israeli startup Electreon has finished installing the EV charging road, according to a press release shared by the company last week. “We million investment from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Today, thanks to Gov.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market. Earlier post.) The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

FordPass also will allow Ford owners with SYNC Connect technology to remotely start, lock and unlock, and locate their vehicle—capabilities that will play a role in future mobility services. One of the first programs to result from the work is a Dynamic Shuttle service Ford is piloting for employees on its Dearborn, Michigan, campus.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Ford is piloting an on-demand Dynamic Shuttle service for its Dearborn, Michigan, employees this month, providing a new mobility solution featuring smart ride-hailing technology with premium customized shuttles, applying insights from earlier experiments and research with global urban commuters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Based on the Lexus LS, the vehicle is being used in research at the Toyota Research Institute of North America in Saline, Michigan, and is capable of autonomous driving. Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Safety' If the driver does not take action to avoid the collision, the system activates.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

At CES, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Connecting with every customer in a socially collaborative and rewarding way. —Mark Fields.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and grid energy storage all rely on efficient and affordable energy storage solutions, primarily lithium-ion batteries. Expanding Battery Manufacturing Capacity in North America In North America, the United States is the leading market for lithium-ion batteries.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Dronning Louise’s Bro (Queen Louise’s Bridge) connects inner Copenhagen and Nørrebro and is frequented by many cyclists and pedestrians every day. However, there has been public pushback over how to pay for the plan and its push to decrease personal driving by imposing a mileage tax.

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company today announced that it is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a green manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Instead, Lucid leaders see a bright future in cars that aim for maximum efficiency — rather than range per se — via smaller, more-affordable batteries. Yet EV batteries are still central to automakers’ calculus, as they seek a sustainable, affordable supply in a period of explosive growth. kilometers from each onboard kilowatt hour.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Like the iconic Rouge complex in Michigan did a century earlier, Blue Oval City will usher in a new era for American manufacturing. The assembly plant will use always-on cloud-connected technologies to drive vast improvements in quality and productivity. Ford Blue Oval City. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Within the US, it examines California, Massachusetts, and Michigan—states covering a range of differences in electric power generation and power market structures. Within the EU, it cites examples from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. Policies will play a key role here, the report notes.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. This includes startups who cannot afford to miss use their limited funds and fortune 500 companies who are competing globally.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

However, these innovations are too rarely linked and optimized in a way that can provide a convenient, practical, affordable and sustainable door-to-door trip for the user. —“Connecting (And Transforming) The Future Of Transportation”. We have found globally that this [connection] is needed. The world is urbanizing.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The end of ownership usually results in used sales, which increases affordability and adoption. I have had memberships in the EAA, Tucson EAA, and West Michigan EV and Plug-in Vehicle Enthusiasts. This includes startups who cannot afford to miss use their limited funds and fortune 500 companies who are competing globally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Make it affordable, safe, drivable, eligible for certification and warranty, and installable in high volumes. We’ll recruit mentors to validate your business plans, identify suppliers, and connect partners. Drive Star starts with a modest but ambitious $100 million challenge: Design a way to convert a popular vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

On a large scale, high-power electronics are used to connect solar panels and wind turbines to the grid, to operate industrial equipment such as elevators and HV/AC systems, and to run electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. MicroLink Devices will engineer affordable, high-performance transistors needed for power conversion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Autonomous vehicles in 2021 are part of Ford Smart Mobility, the company’s plan to be a leader in autonomous vehicles, as well as in connectivity, mobility, the customer experience, and data and analytics. The aim is to quickly mass-produce a more affordable automotive LiDAR sensor. —Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Michigan State. Solar Power Transmission Michigan State will develop a unified power flow controller (UPFC) that will have enormous technological and economic. affordably and dynamically control power flow will open up. University of Michigan). to connect photovoltaic solar panels to the grid. connected together.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades?

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As University of Michigan professor emeritus and student of system-human interactions John Leslie King observes “People find ways to use systems for their own benefit not anticipated by designers and developers. If California cannot afford it, can the other 17 states that have pledged to follow California’s EV lead afford it, either?

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. in 1973 and is now associate dean and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “I Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.” Local area network.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug.

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