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Stuff We Use: Add-On In-Car Tech

The Truth About Cars

. & A well-worn Ford Super Duty from the 2007 model year darkened my driveway just this past weekend, and while the thing had more duct tape on its seats than the entire HVAC system in a high-rise building, USB ports just like these units were neatly plugged into the 12V socket hilariously labelled ‘POWER OUTLET’ by Ford nearly twenty years ago.

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Autonomous vehicle tech company Nauto enters strategic relationships with 3 automakers, including BMW and Toyota, and Allianz

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The system automatically uploads and tags road conditions and incidents that matter (drivers don’t need to manually input data) and alerts fleet managers to accidents, near-misses or major driving performance issues. Nauto in-vehicle system block diagram from 2015 Nauto presentation. —Gill Pratt, CEO Toyota Research Institute.

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Exclusive Greenius Coverage of Today’s Clean Tech Roundtable

Creative Greenius

I attended today’s Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable at the Broad Stage at Santa Monica College – thanks to my pal Donna Gentry. Clean Building Materials – everything from LED lighting to solar panels. Tags: environment Bryan Cave Clean Tech Roundtable Jerry Brown.

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BYD produces 200K units of its most affordable EV 

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It debuted at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2023 with a price tag of $11,300 in China. Elon Musk says Tesla will build €25k EV at Giga Berlin Forbes speculated that the Seagull, labeled Blade, might be equipped with BYD’s lithium-ion phosphate batteries. The base Seagull variant starts at RMB 73,800 ($10,360).

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Dow Planning to Build and Operate a Pilot-Scale Algae-to-Ethanol Biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels

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to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will produce ethanol, located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. Dow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Membrane Technology & Research, Inc. Tags: Algal Fuels Ethanol.

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IEEE Tech Talk: Times They are a'Changin'

Plugs and Cars

IEEE Tech Talk's John Voelker's report is titled EVS-23: A Surge of Energy for Electric Cars. Tags: evs23. It is a first comment on the palpable difference being experienced at this year's Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS23), the electric drive industry trade show. An astounding 450 people attended Sunday's plug-in hybrid workshop.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

Cars That Think

The first thing that jumps out is that Spectrum readers love good quality audio, but unlike some audiophiles, they don’t see an exorbitant price tag or voodoo components as a badge of honor. A third of the top 15 articles relate to wireless and radio tech, with one concerning a home-brew radio telescope (October 2019).

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