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RMI launches “Virtual Power Plant Partnership” with support from General Motors & Ford

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Initial funding of the VP3 effort was made possible by General Motors and Google Nest. VP3 includes founding members Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade. in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S.

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GM OnStar and RelayRides introduce peer-to-peer car sharing for GM vehicles

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General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. RelayRides reservation app. Click to enlarge. Challenges with access-based consumption.

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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

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Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The Wrangler 4xe gets too expensive in top trims, but Jeep gave us a cheaper configuration for 2024 that makes it easier to afford. It also has 40 miles of electric range and an updated Google-based infotainment system that is more responsive than before.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV

Clean Fleet Report

The audio has FM/AM HD with SiriusXM and Google built-in , but no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. It won’t be long before Chevrolet and the other General Motors brands of Buick, Cadillac and GMC are offering everything they make in an all-electric version. inch driver configurable instrument display 17.7-inch

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

And we knew from prior experience that just being generic like that wasn't going to work because your mother and my mother could show up and say, I want cloud computing. It has to be for General Motors, Ford, and so on. In a way, the firms we can't afford to lose make up almost a litmus test of the most important companies.

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Battery startup Sion Power raises USD 75 mn in funding round led by LG Energy Solution – ET Auto

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The company, which also received new investment from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt ‘s family office, Hillspire, intends to seek technical and market validation of its technology and plans to build a manufacturing line to make lithium-metal cells.

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