Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. —Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs.

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Fusion Concept Design Building 300

Spark Powered

DECEMBER 29, 2022

News of a major breakthrough in fusion technology has recently swept through the media outlets. Not much yet, but most likely it will open the flood gates to additional funding for future fusion research. Once fusion is truly established and on the grid the price of electricity will plummet, then it will all be about batteries.

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Fusion All-Electric Cheap Electrical 52

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States. Four industry insiders ultimately confirmed that Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that utilized mercury propellant.

Mercury 101

Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 101

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Lucid chose Mobileye to provide the primary compute platform, full 8-camera surround view processing, sensor fusion software, Road Experience Management (REM) crowd-based localization capability, and reinforcement learning algorithms for Driving Policy. The Multithreaded Processing Cluster (MPC) was introduced in the EyeQ4.

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Motor Motors Motoring Vehicles 150

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Gas turbines are fairly flexible to switch on and off as wind varies, they’re relatively cheap, highly efficient and much lower in emissions than wood, coal or oil. Do everything to encourage fusion, the almost infinitely productive technology that looks ready to go by 2040. Gas is the only answer.

Power 52

Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

CARACaS’ Perception Engine consists of a 360 electro-optical system with an automated target recognition system called the Contact Detection and Analysis System (CDAS); a stereo electro-optical infrared (EOIR) system; a radar and automatic identification system (AIS); and a sensor data fusion engine developed by Daniel Wagner Associates.

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Vehicles Yemen Mariner Fusion 307

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Our experience so far is that ferrite magnets are an efficient, reliable and relatively cheap solution, both when it comes to the infrastructure and on-board sensor technology. Sensor fusion for precise autonomous vehicle navigation in outdoor semi-structured environments,” Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005. —Jonas Ekmark.

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Volvo Cars San Diego 2005 230