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GM to acquire Cruise Automation to accelerate autonomous vehicle development

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The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility. The three-year old startup developed an aftermarket kit allowing buyers to convert certain cars into autonomous vehicles for highway driving.

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CNG becomes cheaper in Mumbai. How much it costs in other metro cities?

Baua Electric

While previously, only commercial vehicles were using CNG as fuel, in the last couple of years, personal vehicle owners too have increasingly started using CNG as fuel. Besides this, CNG-propelled vehicles emit fewer pollutants into the environment compared to petrol and diesel-powered vehicles.

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

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As senior technical leader for innovation, Maciuca brings extensive Silicon Valley experience advising startups, developing and commercializing products, collaborating with universities and leading cross-functional teams. Maciuca holds a Ph.D. The devices gather data including wheel speed, acceleration and altitude.

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

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The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). —GM Chief Infotainment Officer Phil Abram.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. Laser printers.

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

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So yeah, so we have sold a few hundred thousand products over the last three years when we started selling commercially. Fili: I mean, this is the fourth commercial solar cell technology in the world after 110 or something years of research. And - I don’t know - I haven’t heard anyone who has charged since. So now it’s happening.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. Electric vehicles (EV) or (BEV) are a clean, quiet alternative to conventional automobiles, which are powered by petroleum derivatives that, when burned, emit noxious gases into the environment. EVs are a smart and efficient choice for personal transportation.

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