Remove Building Remove Design Remove Environment Remove Personal
article thumbnail

Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

Green Car Congress

At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure. km 2 ) site at the base of Mt.

Toyota 369
article thumbnail

Siemens and Nexii unveil sustainable and cost-effective EV charging prototype for faster deployment

Green Car Congress

Siemens unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging concept structure designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging applications at scale. The busway power distribution equipment is manufactured at Siemens’ 540-person manufacturing hub in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Credit: Steve Swieter.

article thumbnail

NIO’s expansion into German, Dutch, Danish and Swedish markets coming with buildout of battery swap stations

Green Car Congress

The company also said that it plans to build 20 Power Swap Stations (PSS) in Europe this year. By 2025, NIO aims to build 1,000 PSS outside of China, most of which will be in Europe. NIO Subscription is designed to offer maximum flexibility and personalization to encourage EV use.

Denmark 243
article thumbnail

Volvo Trucks deploys first pilot all-electric VNR Truck at TEC Equipment in Southern California

Green Car Congress

This experience in designing, planning, and installing high-power chargers for electric trucks has taught us how critical it is to engage a variety of stakeholders early on. The Volvo LIGHTS project has provided valuable insight into how to build realistic project timelines. Volvo and its partners have promised no less than $45.7M

Volvo 427
article thumbnail

DOT issues discussion document on principles for a connected vehicle environment; safety as top priority

Green Car Congress

The principles reflect the positions of the FHWA (Federal Highway Administration), NHTSA, and RITA at this time of adoption related to research, demonstration and implementation of a connected vehicle environment. Transportation Safety is the DOT’s top stated priority for the connected vehicle environment.

article thumbnail

BMW Connected North America makes its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016; powered by Azure

Green Car Congress

BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. Service Fabric enables the automaker to build individual mobility graphs with personalized data and real-time context.

article thumbnail

DARPA awards Berkeley Lab $1.5M for intiial phase for Open Biofoundry design and study

Green Car Congress

million to proceed with a “Task Area 1” (TA1) design and study phase for the Berkeley Open Biofoundry (BOB). This center of excellence is envisioned to be a Silicon Valley-style ecosystem of engineering for biology where designs and start-up systems are created but manufacturing is done elsewhere. —Jay Keasling.

Design 218