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Aeva announces Aeries 4D FMCW lidar-on-chip for autonomous driving; recent Porsche investment

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Aeva, a company building next-generation sensing for autonomous vehicles ( earlier post ), announced the development of Aeries, Aeva’s next-generation Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) lidar system that integrates all the key elements of a lidar sensor into a miniaturized photonics chip. Aeva’s Aeries sensing system.

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Hypercar Company Rimac Developing Robotaxi Service

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It also has a working relationship with Volkswagen Group ever since subsidiary Porsche Engineering Group GmbH acquired a 10-percent stake in the Croatian company. The electric hypercar company was developing an autonomous taxi based around the Renault Espace minivan. Rimac is trying to build an entire ecosystem for automated EVs.

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Kreisel Electric expanding capacity with construction of new Li-ion battery plant

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The three equally sized parts of the new plant building will be used for battery production, as well as for technical development of prototypes and small batch productions. The last section of the building will host the software and engineering development and the offices. With a weight of only 4.1 Kreisel has also swapped out VW’s 24.2

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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Covariant ] Sure Bak, who worked as an interactive product UX designer at Porsche, currently works on designing HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) at NAVER LABS. Today, we have a fully driverless taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix. Naver Labs ] This year, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Swamp Works.

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This VC Is Betting Big on Flying Taxis and Scooters

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He also builds and restores classic cars and vintage military aircraft. He recently finished building a 1963 Porsche 356 B for his daughter. He even built a cycle-by-wire electric trike for a close friend who had been an avid cyclist but was essentially paralyzed by ALS.

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Electric Car Watch #2: Volkswagen- Global market leader in electric vehicles?

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They will build six ‘gigafactories’ in Europe by 2030 with a total production capacity of 240-gigawatt hours per year. Earlier this year, Volkswagen announced a new electric car strategy through 2030, called ‘NEW AUTO’, with a focus on electric cars, ride-sharing, autonomy, and robo taxis. 3 electric vehicles.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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As one example, the motor’s suspension system was switched to a pendulum mount with modified response characteristics, which greatly enhances the acoustics despite the e-motor’s high torque build-up when accelerating. Building an e-Golf: the basic production flow for the e-Golf at the Wolfsburg plant.

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