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KIT and e-bike manufacturer Coboc developing quick charging process for e-bike batteries

Green Car Congress

To shorten the charging time of e-bikes—in particular during daily use in the city—Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Coboc GmbH & Co. The data evaluation results will then be made available to manufacturers and users in the form of graphics. Presently, charging of an e-bike battery takes about two to four hours.

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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Ford develops and begins manufacturing new powered respirator; expanding other COVID-19 efforts

Green Car Congress

Ford has also started providing manufacturing expertise to help scientific instrument provider Thermo Fisher Scientific quickly expand production of COVID-19 collection kits to test for the virus. Collection kits for COVID-19 tests. Ford is helping scale production of collection kits for COVID-19 tests at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Charged Up: The 2024 Dodge Charger is Finally Here

The Truth About Cars

The internal-combustion engine Mustang seems safe, at least in the short term. The Charger won't only be available in all-electric models. The extra horsepower on the R/T and Scat Pack models come from stage kits that will be standard at launch but will later need to be purchased separately. Muscle cars are going electric.

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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

Cars That Think

The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. A variety of travel grants have been made available to students with limited resources so they can present their research papers at the society’s major conferences. I really want my colleagues to experience the same personal and professional growth as I have.

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Why India is in love with hybrid cars?

Baua Electric

Advantages of hybrid technology over pure ICE or EV It is well known that hybrid cars offer the benefit of both worlds, internal combustion engines (ICE) and electric vehicles (EV), by combining a fossil fuel engine with an electric motor and a battery pack. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, demands for personal mobility have surged drastically.

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

Green Car Congress

The OpenXC research platform from Ford is now out of beta and available to all “makers” and do-it-yourselfers at [link]. 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.

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