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Tech: Autonomous Vehicles Are Going to Require a New Brain

Clean Fleet Report

Waymo minivans are already driverless. In doing so, organizations can leverage more than 100 million miles of driving data already captured to easily create billions of miles of such synthetic data, validating algorithms which in turn minimizes long lead times and creates safe environments for AV drivers.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Ford Motor Company. Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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