Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Lidar, radar and cameras will all play significant roles in creating the ideal autonomous driving platform and there is no question that tightly connected sensors with onboard data fusion for automated driving enables more functionalities. Software: First AI fusion technology to “see-around-the-corner”. Benefits include: Range ?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

These systems work together through sensor fusion to provide Ultra Cruise with a 360-degree, three-dimensional representation of the vehicle’s surroundings. They help enable the system to detect objects such as traffic signs, traffic lights, other vehicles and pedestrians. GM is developing Ultra Cruise software in-house.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2010

The US government’s General Services Administration (GSA) this summer took delivery of the first of more than 5,600 hybrid vehicles ordered earlier this year, and will make the vehicles—almost all of which are Ford Fusion hybrids—available to various federal agencies under GSA lease agreements as they are delivered.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2016

introduced a tactical grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) featuring industry-leading precision and stability in the smallest, lightest and lowest power solution available. Analog Devices, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Fisker Ocean’s cameras are sourced from one of the market-leading suppliers and provide latest-generation vision capability, with a front-facing 8-megapixel camera delivering the highest resolution currently available in a vehicle. Traffic Sign/Light Recognition. Reverse Collision Mitigation. Evasive Steering Assist.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Year-to-date, total sales of EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles are up 46%; F-150, Escape and Fusion are the top-selling EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles. For 2015, EcoBoost is available on every non-hybrid light-duty passenger vehicle in Ford’s US lineup. Fusion, at 105,999 EcoBoost-equipped cars sold, claims the third spot.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2012

Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver’s workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data. Adaptive Forward Lighting. Intelligent Brake Assist. Forward Collision Alert. Safety Alert Seat. Automatic Collision Preparation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2015

AGM batteries used in a Start-Stop system help reduce fuel consumption as the engine shuts off when the vehicle comes to a stop in traffic or at a red light. The 2015 Ford F-150 became available to drivers in late 2014. In 2013, Johnson Controls began supplying batteries for Ford’s Fusion Auto Start-Stop vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And finally, since we only use the water that is present in the surrounding air, our technology is also applicable in remote places where no water is available. But the material used only absorbs UV light, which makes up less than five percent of all of the sunlight that reaches Earth.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

EV+ is part of SmartGauge and is a standard feature on the Ford plug-in hybrids, C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi, along with the hybrid versions of Fusion and C-MAX. We realized that harnessing data already available was the way we could achieve our goal of improving the entire hybrid vehicle driving experience.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An Advanced Meso-Scale Peridynamic Modeling Technology Using High Performance Computing for Cost-Effective Product Design and Testing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Light-Weight Vehicles – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) will improve the prediction of crash response of carbon composites in auto parts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2015

The high-definition color camera is used for traffic light detection and the infrared camera provides redundancy for pedestrian and vehicle detection. Each lidar is paired with an ESRs, which allows the effective fusion of radar and lidar data. The ADAS camera is used for pedestrian, lane and vehicle detection. Driver interaction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2013

In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that vehicles with autonomous driving modes will gradually gain traction in the market over the coming two decades, from about 4% of the global light-duty vehicle market in 2025, rising to roughly 41% in 2030 and 75% by 2035—about 95.4 million units annually by then.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

All sensors are stock-car grade and readily available on the market. The tracking system comprises two basic layers: the sensor and the fusion layer. In the demonstration in DC, cameras in the vehicle will visually detect the status of traffic lights and respond appropriately. 2014) Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The grille is larger, and the front lighting now integrates fog and daytime running lights. Available in all-wheel drive, the Seltos also comes in LX, S, EX and SX trims with three new colors of Pluton Blue, Fusion Black and Valais Green. The rear-wheel drive (RWD) Air Pure will be available in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Buoyed by the extension of the US Cash for Clunkers (CARS) program, as well as the availability of more hybrid models on the market, reported sales of hybrids in the US jumped 48.6% Overall sales of light duty vehicles in the US rose 1% to 1,261,977 units in August, according to figures from Autodata. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. SRI International. ALPHA AWARDS.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

This enables partners to address the full breadth of autonomous driving algorithms, including sensor fusion, localization and path planning. While others invested years of development to achieve similar levels of perception with classical computer vision algorithms, we have been able to do it at the speed of light. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

Plastic holders for hazard-warning lights, centre lock buttons, electronic parking brakes and sockets for the Rolls-Royce Phantom have been made via additive manufacturing since the start of production in 2012. The most recent example can be found in the preliminary trials of the HP Multi Jet Fusion technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The US DOE national laboratories have some of the most significant high performance computing (HPC) resources available, including some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. manufacturing. GE Global Research Center - This project will extend GE Global Research Center’s TRUCHAS model to large-scale casting simulation of turbine blades.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2010

Overall, light duty vehicle sales rose 15.1% December sales of all light-duty vehicles reached 187,860 units, an increase of 32.3% Reported hybrid sales as a percentage of OEM light vehicle sales. Sales of the Fusion and Milan hybrid sedans reached 1,686 units in December, representing 8.0% of all Fusion and Milan sales.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Shot of Nuclear Fusion. An old saw regarding the multitude of dashed hopes about fusion energy’s promise goes “Fusion is 30 years away—and it always will be.” What has two wings, can reach a person stranded in a disaster zone, and doubles as a source of precious calories when no other food is available?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Due to an advanced solution containing a newly developed electrified architecture, megapixel front cameras, new long-distance radars and an updated multi-sensor data fusion algorithm, the performance and strong usability of its models have greatly improved. The technologies include adaptive cruise control and pedestrian detection/protection.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Active lateral control and the connection of longitudinal or lateral control in all speed ranges are new thanks to the fusion of radar and camera information. They also make it possible to travel during light traffic times, for example at night, and thus avoid traffic jams by intelligent route management.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2010

When Auto Start-Stop debuts in North America, it will be available on gasoline-powered cars and utilities with either a manual or automatic transmission as well as vehicles that use Ford’s patented dual-clutch six-speed automatic transmission. Ford is the leading domestic producer of start-stop systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Local incentives may also be available; for example, the clean vehicle rebate in California is an additional $1,500 and Sonata Plug-in Hybrid is eligible for California’s Green Clean Air Vehicle Decals that allow access to the HOV lanes. A percentage SOC value is available on other user-selectable displays.) Hybrid mode.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

The sun is like a giant fusion generator, from which mankind currently exploits a tiny amount of energy. In light of this, brain-machine interface technology will be focused on curing or alleviating brain injury and other related disorders in the years to come. In my view, the future of sustainable energy involves three components.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Of crucial importance in this respect is the networking of all systems, or “sensor fusion”. Adaptive Highbeam Assist PLUS allows the main-beam headlamps to be kept on permanently without dazzling traffic by masking out other vehicles in the beams’ cone of light. Sensors and cameras.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It calculates continuously a detailed model of the environment from a fusion of sensor data. As an option, the lighting and multifunction buttons can be fitted with touch response technology. The standard specification includes MMI navigation, with MMI navigation plus—a media hub with a new design—available as an option.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

Through the intelligent fusion of sensor data, we are able to obtain an extremely precise picture of the vehicles surrounding including areas further away from the vehicle—which also helps us with the further development of our autonomous driving functions. Use examples.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

HARMAN International Industries made a number of connected vehicle technology announcements during CES 2016 last week, including a connected car computing platform, demonstrated in the Rinspeed Σtos concept car; an advanced navigation system with live data fusion; an open cloud-based software delivery system; and a new partnership with Microsoft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2014

retail, light-duty vehicle stations and other applications). Currently, redundant compressors are often installed due to the poor reliability of these machines and the high availability requirements for the application. The second workshop also was held at NREL 27-28 February 2014, and focused on electrolytic hydrogen production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Applicants must articulate how output from this research will be made broadly available to the scientific and engineering community, and how the results can be used to support future development of high performance automotive die-casting alloys. AOI 3: Body-in-white Joining of Aluminum to Advanced High Strength Steel at Prototype Scale.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

Nair said that while Ford feels it is “ very well established ” currently with hybrid and electric drive technology in the C-MAX, Fusion and Focus EV, the systems are still too heavy. An available Torsen front differential increases off-road capability further. We are real focused on weight reduction. —Raj Nair.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

The system uses sensors to assess available space and to avoid pedestrians, vehicles and other objects. We are working on an array of new sensors that would enable a car to operate in any environment, without any outside intervention or input from lane markings or roadside infrastructure like traffic lights.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. Multiple ways exist for introduction of methanol into the fuel infrastructure (light blends or heavy blends) and into vehicles (light duty or heavy duty applications). Performance of methanol FFVs—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

By shedding a light on what you don’t know, you can train to that and better implement company policy in a way that ultimately promotes sustainability of your fleet. Crew Chief is available for F-150, Super Duty, E-Series vans and the Transit Connect. It also is being tested on Escape and Fusion. —Michael Butsch.

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