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GM publishes “Blue Paper” on sustainable urban mobility; integrating input from Sustainable Urban Mobility events in Shanghai

Green Car Congress

The Blue Paper—published in English and Chinese—addresses the growing challenges associated with rising urbanization and the greater demand for transportation with respect to energy, the environment, safety, traffic congestion and land use. Specific globally consistent codes and standards should be developed.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

Green Car Congress

Ford has been in a beta test with a group of invited developers as they work out details of the SDK, documentation and technical support systems. The SDK contains code libraries and documentation for the APIs that enable two-way communication between mobile apps and the vehicle, including voice commands from the driver.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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In the second century CE, the Chinese scientist Zhang Heng developed an “earthquake weathercock.” The museum, meanwhile, houses hundreds of artifacts marking the moment of destruction, such as mangled office equipment melted in the fires, as well as photographs and artwork documenting the event, including the seismograph at top.

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The end of EV Sales

EV Sales

Of course, not everything i wrote was prescient, after all, despite saying that the Tesla Model S was going to be the poster car for the EV Revolution, i had doubts that it would top the charts.Which it did, winning the Global Best Seller status in 2015, and earning 3 more podium positions (#3 in 2014, and #2 in 2016 & '17).

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Self-Driving Cars Work Better With Smart Roads

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Even in a Beijing sandstorm, every person in every car will arrive at their destination safely and on time. The results are then sent to the cloud, where more elaborate processing fuses that semantic data with data from other sources to generate global perception and planning information.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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As people have seen the EV adoption rate globally is under pressure and a lot of other auto manufacturers are pulling back on EVs and pursuing plugin hybrids instead. Lastly, we’d like to thank our customers globally for their trust in Tesla as a partner for these incredible projects. Elon Musk: Thanks, Martin.

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