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Novelis plans Customer Solution Centers to innovate alongside automotive customers

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The facilities will be led by teams of industry-leading researchers, designers and engineers located in close proximity to automakers’ manufacturing sites in North America, China and Europe. As the facilities come online, cross-regional teams will be in place to ramp up product development in critical stages for the auto industry.

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Ford, University of Michigan open $8M battery lab focused on test production of advanced technologies

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This lab will give us a stepping-stone between the research lab and the production environment, and a chance to have input much earlier in the development process. This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. —Ted Miller, Ford’s manager of battery research. —Ted Miller.

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Delphi Automotive launching coast-to-coast automated drive

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Delphi Automotive is launching a US coast-to-coast automated drive—the longest automated drive ever attempted in North America—to showcase its technology capabilities and to gather data and further advance the company’s active safety technology development in this rapidly growing segment of the auto industry.

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At Last, a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself

Cars That Think

After all, Apple’s Siri , Microsoft’s Cortana , Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home are all very impressive , but these systems function solely on voice input: They can’t understand or react to the environment around them. And indeed, the auto industry is beginning to embrace technology that works in the manner of a virtual assistant.

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Ford enters 2 new European research collaborations for innovation in mobility and autonomous vehicles

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Without question, we are embarking on one of the most transformative eras in the history of the auto industry—and in the history of Ford. The vehicles use the same semi-autonomous technology in Ford vehicles today, while adding four LiDAR sensors to generate a real-time 3D map of the surrounding environment.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

In our latest blog post, EVmatch advisor Jeff Pickett takes a deep dive into the landmark bill, looking at what the IRA means for climate change mitigation and the EV industry. The IRA is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation in the history of the U.S. carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.).

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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