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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

I’m very grateful to the EVA for the award I received, and we’re all especially honored to receive the best chapter distinction,” Erb said, noting that the Asheville chapter launched in 2014 with the hosting of its first National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) event. “I’m We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb.

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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. Additionally, the auto industry provides 16% of total worldwide R&D funding for all industries. These companies include both automakers and Tier 1 parts suppliers. Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

He began his career in 1970 as a researcher at NTT’s Musashino Electrical Communication Labs , also in Tokyo. He left in 1973 to serve as chief scientist of the defense systems group at TRW (now part of Northrop Grumman ), an automotive and aerospace company, in Euclid, Ohio. Air Force and was a pilot in the C-130 squadron.