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Nissan Serena’s e-POWER system named RJC Technology of the Year

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Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ), available in the Serena minivan ( earlier post ), has been named Technology of the Year for 2019 by the Automotive Researchers’ and Journalists’ Conference of Japan (RJC). l/100 km), Nº 1 in its class. km/L (62 mpg US, 3.8

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Enovix Si Li-ion EV test battery cells demonstrate 5-minute fast charge

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International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) Europe in Mainz, Germany, where he will provide an update on the company’s EV program. —Harrold Rust, Co-Founder, CEO and President of Enovix. On 14 June, Ashok Lahiri, Co-Founder and CTO of Enovix, will speak at the 12 th ?International —Ashok Lahiri.

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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life. To date, the EMS tool has helped Murphy and HEB achieve more than a 20% increase in range.

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Video Friday: RACER Heavy

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But the best part? Paper ] Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. This talk on EELS was presented at the 2024 Amazon MARS conference. [ The speed at which new tasks can be automated has increased 50x, marking a major inflection point in task automation speed.

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Cepton unveils next-generation LiDAR for autonomous vehicles

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a provider of 3D LiDAR solutions for automotive, industrial and mapping applications, unveiled its Vista LiDAR sensor at the annual NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, with immediate availability for the autonomous vehicle market. Cepton Technologies, Inc. , The 120-line-equivalent scanner delivers 200 meters of range and 0.2

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Baidu and NVIDIA team up on cloud-to-car platform for self-driving cars; HD maps, Level 3 control, automated parking

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At the Baidu World Conference in Beijing, Baidu CEO Robin Li together with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced a partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of a cloud-to-car autonomous car platform for local Chinese and global car makers. The team will be part of Baidu’s newly-created Autonomous Driving Unit (ADU).

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Toyota North America unveils hydrogen-fuel-cell heavy-duty truck proof-of-concept; twin Mirai fuel cell stacks

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(TMNA) revealed “Project Portal”—a hydrogen fuel cell system designed for heavy-duty trucks applied in a Class 8 truck for use at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA). Project Portal is just one part of Toyota’s ongoing commitment to fuel cell technology. The concept’s gross combined weight capacity is 80,000 lbs.,