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Volkswagen launches new research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). —Scott Keogh, President & CEO at Volkswagen Group of America.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

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While consumer preferences have trended toward larger automobiles of late, it’s actually the United States’ regulatory landscape that has been steering us toward gargantuan vehicles. In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured.

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Wireless EV charging roads piloted in the U.S., Europe

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Israel-based company Electreon is one such company piloting wireless roads, as detailed in a report from CNBC on Monday. The electric road solution is considered especially useful for fleet vehicles, public transit, and other automobiles driving on repetitive routes.

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Study finds that EV-specific factors rather than socio-demographic variables better predictors of EV uptake

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This, they suggest, could be because national EV markets were so small relative to overall automobile sales. Until then, EV-specific factors such as amount of charging infrastructure, level of consumer financial incentives, and number of locations that sell the automobiles are likely to be more correct for estimating a country’s market share.

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Lexus RC F makes its European debut at Geneva; V8 with Otto-Atkinson cycle

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The notion of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. In a 1995 paper, Boggs et al. from Ford tested a modified 1.6L Bassett, S. Blakey, and P. EP 1754872 B1.

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ETV Motors demonstrates High5ive LMNS Li-ion batteries in RC airplane

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ETV Motors, an Israel-based technology start-up focused on developing battery technology for electric vehicles, has demonstrated the ability of its high-voltage High5ive battery technology to propel a radio-controlled airplane. In this sense, they resemble automobiles. The battery pack that powered ETVM’s RC airplane is based on the 4.7-volt

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Ford targeting highly autonomous vehicle for ride-sharing in 2021; new tech company investments, staffing up in Silicon Valley

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Ford was the first automaker to begin testing its vehicles at Mcity, University of Michigan’s simulated urban environment, the first automaker to publicly demonstrate autonomous vehicle operation in the snow and the first automaker to test its autonomous research vehicles at night, in complete darkness, as part of LiDAR sensor development.

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