Cars That Think

JUNE 29, 2023

The future of carbon-free energy smells like teriyaki and sounds like a low-flying 737. But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 13, 2021

It might be time to retire that overused joke about nuclear fusion always being 30 years away. Burnaby, British Columbia-based General Fusion plans to build a large-scale demonstration reactor at the UK's national fusion research laboratory campus in Culham near Oxford.

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APRIL 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Earlier post.) —Under Secretary of Energy Mark W.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. Prominent technology and industry thought leaders like Larry will be instrumental in helping us make this vision a reality. He received a B.S. He received a B.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs A window-mounted air-conditioning system includes an electric heat pump for heating.

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

The engine-gearbox unit produced using the additive laser fusion process passed all the quality and stress tests without any problems. The drive housing was manufactured from high-purity metal powder using the laser metal fusion process (LMF). Porsche has produced its first complete housing for an electric drive using 3D printing.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The fusion of multifaceted sensor data from tracking solutions with autonomous driving software unlocks innovative new capabilities that accelerate self-driving deployment at scale. The GPS location data also gets plugged into the self-driving car’s sensor fusion engine.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 8, 2023

The R&D segment relies on the establishment of advanced pilot line facilities, to enable a path from laboratory breakthrough to fab production, and a network of competence centers, to build up capacity for semiconductor design. If there’s no demand [from chip design firms], there will be no economical reason to build a fab [in Europe].

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

However, the database search algorithms don’t promise viable speedups in the foreseeable future, and destroying Internet security seems like a dubious reason to build a new machine. Sequestration strategies exist, but are not cost or energy efficient enough to make a significant dent in the current carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe. Other manufacturing locations will be announced in the future.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Now, I’m eager to bring this fusion to Redwood Materials, collaborating with JB Straubel and the visionary leadership team. We have an incredible opportunity and challenge ahead of us to invent and build the world’s closed-loop battery supply chain and recycling industry. The future is exciting.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Future applications that will benefit from the technology will include cooperative driving, automatic maneuvers for the safety of pedestrians, autonomous vehicles or cooperative collision warning systems, the scientists noted. The greatest problem presented by a commercial GPS in an urban setting is the loss of all of the satellite signals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2022

Coupled with its in-house Sensor Fusion technology, Pony.ai This builds on Pony.ai This enables scalable deployment across self-driving trucks and robotaxis, and accelerates Pony.ai’s future of a robust, mass-production platform for autonomous vehicles. The self-developed traffic light camera has a resolution rate 1.5

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

There are plans to install 20 more in the near future, with ongoing discussions to increase the number in the long term. Since installing the first workplace charging station in 2014, Ford and its employees have saved more than 6,000 gallons of gas, enough to fill a Ford Fusion Energi 428 times, the company calculates.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Our design wins demonstrate how NVIDIA is partnering with one of the world’s largest and most impactful industries to help revolutionize the future of mobility. Navistar is partnering with TuSimple to build self-driving trucks designed from the ground up for level 4 autonomous operation, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE. Volvo Cars. and Auto X.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. The MTC is based in the historic English industrial city of Coventry (Figure 2), but its focus is solely on the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

General Motors recently renewed its five-year agreement with research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh to continue developing technologies that could allow future production vehicles to drive autonomously. Automated driving requires the fusion of input from advanced sensors to provide 360 degrees of crash risk awareness.

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EV Central

JANUARY 4, 2023

Style fans, you have permission to quietly rejoice… The Dee’s also “another step on the road to the neue klasse ” (German for “new class”) – BMW’s future model line-up (likely battery electric and fuel cell electric vehicles) due from 2025. A Digital Emotional Experience. But not analogue ones.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Put another way, the purpose of the MIT project is enhance the utilization of the line-of-sight data already acquired by the Fusion’s sensors to provide augmented predictive capability, especially for pedestrians. That creates constraints on future positions.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 15, 2024

The driver's door latch mechanism was broken, so I couldn't take a look at the build tag and see the assembly date for this car (this is a common problem with junkyard vehicles). Because the Taurus name was just so good , it was used on a Chinese-market car built on the same platform as the Fusion from the 2016 through 2022 model years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2013

These technologies will be key building blocks to achieving fully automated driving. The fact is, automated driving is happening now and will continue to expand in capabilities and mainstream use in the very near future. —Jeff Owens, chief technology officer, Delphi Automotive.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We are a strong believer that smart mobility and autonomous driving are going to transform our daily lives, and we share the same vision with Xiaomi that technology innovation is the key driver in reshaping our future transportation. The company is building its fully-owned intelligent factory in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

These include how to capture and interpret road geometry through computing intensive sensor fusion, precise vehicle positioning, laser projection, driver monitoring via inward facing cameras, and designing sophisticated algorithms to generate precise augmentation content in the viewing field of the driver.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

CLEVeR will address many of the future research challenges associated with current and future low and ultra-low carbon vehicles under real world driving conditions. This develops a new research relationship with TMETC, but builds on two previous TSB projects and a Knowledge Transfer Account that the PVRC have undertaken with Ashwoods.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2014

Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. Fundamental safety building blocks for future automated vehicles.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Believing in Technology for a Better Future. But I believe that as long as we are not complacent and always maintain a sense of urgency, the future of humanity will be bright, driven by the power of technology. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy: if humans want to make the future good, they should take action to make it good.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

New elements are the active latitudinal control and the combination of longitudinal and lateral control in all speed ranges through the fusion of radar and camera information. Active Drive Assist builds upon the tried-and-tested adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go function and the lane-keeping assistant from Mercedes-Benz.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The team also is reducing engineering costs by $4 billion from planned levels over the next five years by increasing use of common parts across its full line of vehicles, reducing order complexity and building fewer prototypes. Allocating capital where Ford can win the future. Redesigning the company’s factories of the future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. 19” by 5” carbon fiber wheels. Aluminum brake rotors coated with steel. Composite and hollow steel coil springs.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. But the materials could show up sooner in a wide array of practical applications, including wind power, energy storage, and nuclear magnetic-resonance machines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

At Ford, Tariq is responsible for further building and differentiating the company’s Ford brand. He will work with Marketing, Communications and company leaders to define, build and communicate the Ford primary brand and what it stands for with all stakeholders. Good-bye to auto-digital fusion, hello to co-integration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a key future topic for Mercedes-Benz, in-car and beyond, such as in the fields of mobility services or in development and production. Coupled with corresponding services they could become the fundament for a holistic mobility eco-system of the future, Daimler suggests. sensor fusion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

The BMW Group is steadily pursuing the evolution and use of advanced additive-manufacturing methods, and says it will continue to expand the application of 3D printing in the future. Additive technologies will be one of the main production methods of the future for the BMW Group—with promising potential.

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