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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part II)

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In last week’s installment of Abandoned History , we learned about General Motors’ 1966 magnet-based primitive navigation system, DAIR. The Japanese government engaged in a research partnership on automobile navigation with Fuji in 1973. Japan became the first country to found government initiatives for automobile navigation.&

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New Energy’s Technology for Generating Electricity from Movement of Cars Tested at Burger King

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New Energy Technology successfully conducted durability field-tests of its prototype MotionPower technology for generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks at a Burger King restaurant in Hillside, New Jersey over the Labor Day weekend. While the automobile is braking it continues to roll.

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE drives autonomously over 100km interurban and urban route with near-production technology

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The self-driving S-Class had to deal autonomously with a number of highly complex situations such as traffic lights, roundabouts, pedestrians, cyclists and trams. The project thus marks a milestone along the way that leads from the self-propelled (automobile) to the self-driving (autonomous) vehicle, the company said. Initial testing.

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Industry study finds lead-acid to remain most wide-spread automotive energy storage for foreseeable future; new chemistries continue to grow

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In particular, this report demonstrates the necessity of maintaining the exemption for lead-based batteries within the EU End of Life Vehicle Directive’s wider ban on lead in light-duty vehicles. In full-hybrid vehicles, the stored energy is also used for a certain range of electric driving.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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According to its slogan— digital, flexible, green—it will set standards within the worldwide automobile production. Almost all electrical consumers in production—computers, industrial drives, robots and production technologies, hall lighting and so on—already require direct current.

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CAP-XX introduces supercap modules to support batteries in stop-start applications

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With the supercapacitor module installed, the vehicle battery only needs to support continuous power functions such as air conditioning, navigation and lights, enabling longer battery life or smaller batteries. The battery also charges the supercapacitors for their first start, but once driving, the alternator keeps them charged.

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West Virginia Univ. receives $1.15M grant for second hydrogen production-fueling station in state; focus on fossil-fuel-to-hydrogen

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By building and operating a new hydrogen fueling station in Morgantown, West Virginia University will demonstrate running automobiles on hydrogen fuel made from coal-powered electricity. The resulting hydrogen will be stored as a gas at a pressure of up to 5,000 psi (345 bar). The program could then be duplicated in other areas.