Green Car Congress
JANUARY 10, 2013
The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. Early in 2012 Ford shipped the first OpenXC beta toolkits to universities such as the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford University and HCL Technologies in India.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. As of January 2012, OpenXC was only supported on a few Ford vehicles: 2011 - 2012 Focus; 2012 Mustang; 2012 Fiesta; and 2011 Figo.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). I got beaten down a number of times." This is unusual. Marketwatch ).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. needs to have an indigenous automobile industry, and not merely "transplants". Forget the black helicopter conspiracies. Never again.
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