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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Open Source Civic-EV documents moved

Open Source Civic EV Kit

Due to Google removing the Files and Pages feature of Google Groups. All files and documentation at the civic-ev Google group has now been moved to the "civicevkit" Google Site: https://sites.google.com/site/civicevkit/ If you need to access the build instructions or Google Sketch-Up files, please go there now.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Apple ramps up its ‘secret’ self-driving car testing: Report – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Earlier reports claimed that Apple downgraded its ambitions to build a self-driving electric car. However, new documents show that the company is still testing its own self-driving car. Meanwhile, Google’s Waymo drove 3.7 Meanwhile, Google’s Waymo drove 3.7 million testing miles with no one behind the wheel.

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Lucid to expand Arizona production plant in 2023

Teslarati

Lucid Motors ( NASDAQ: LCID ) is planning to expand its AMP-1 production facility in Casa Grande, Arizona, with construction starting in 2023, documents show. Additionally, Lucid is discussing starting work on future phases associated with the build-out of their development on Lot 1 of the Lucid Final Plat.

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Tesla will make some Superchargers publicly available to other EVs in 2022

Teslarati

In Norway and Sweden, this is evidently on the brink of happening, according to documents uncovered by Twitter user Otto Kristofferson (via Alex Avoigt). The document states (via Google Translate): “Tesla applied to expand five fast-charging stations. Courtesy of @ottoKristoffers pic.twitter.com/HfPhEH1ewB.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

Cars That Think

Contributing Editor Mark Harris spent months poring over court documents and other records to understand how the U.S. history: into the violent overtaking of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies exploited vast troves of data to conduct the largest criminal investigation in U.S.

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