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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

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The details of that specific situation may result in an electric vehicle parc somewhat different than in Western countries, other speakers noted, and may indeed—given the obvious scale of the China market—herald a major transformation in transportation, including the type and role of personal vehicles, others suggested.

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National Research Council Study: More Compact Development Could Reduce VMT, Fuel Use and CO2 Emissions Anywhere from Less than 1% to 11%

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Assuming compact development is focused on new and replacement housing—as converting existing housing to higher densities could be prohibitively difficult—significant increases in density would result in modest short-term reductions in personal travel, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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EPA Trends on EVs and PHEVs; beginning of a “measurable and meaningful impact” on new vehicle fuel economy and emissions

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The EPA report is an authoritative reference for CO 2 emissions, fuel economy, and powertrain technology trends for new personal vehicles in the United States. EPA obtains the detailed data supporting the report directly from automobile manufacturers; the agency has been collecting and maintaining these data since 1975.

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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 project thus marks a milestone along the way that leads from the self-propelled (automobile) to the self-driving (autonomous) vehicle, the company said. In August 1888, Bertha Benz set off on the first long-distance automobile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim. Autonomous driving with production-based sensors.

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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

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At the NASSCOM India Leadership Summit, Ford is demonstrating the OpenXC research platform and the potential of open-source application development for the automobile with the first third-party mobile app created with the OpenXC toolkit. The reference host device is a standard Android device that supports the Android Platform version 3.1

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Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior

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Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Source: Malikopoulos 2010. Click to enlarge.

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Early Access Review: "The Last Independent Automaker," Covering Everything AMC

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Theres only so much time the folks who knew the companys original CEO George Mason personally or built an AMC Gremlin at the factory will be around to share their stories. Mason received a sterling reference to company founder Charles Nash via Walter P. This is important stuff.

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