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Ferrari Patents Augmented Reality System Designed to Merge Real and Virtual Racing

The Truth About Cars

Ferrari has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that leverages augmented reality to allow real-world racing to crossover into the virtual realm. By using wireless networks and the real vehicle’s positional data, Ferrari thinks it can replicate it on screens at home with a high degree of accuracy.

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In Memoriam: Marcello Gandini, an Automotive Design Master

The Truth About Cars

The world lost one of its preeminent car designers today, as Marcello Gandini has passed away at the age of 85. Though perhaps best known for the flashy and outrageous Lamborghini Countach, Gandini’s pen was applied to many other Italian, German, French, British, Japanese, and Swedish concepts and production designs.

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Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale and Spider PHEVs

EV Central

It already had the power and performance expected from an elite-level Ferrari sports car, so why has the legendary Maranello-based manufacturer added XX-factor to its SF90 line-up? Buyers of top-end Ferraris always want more speed, noise and drama… and they’re prepared to pay for it. seconds longer.

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So Cal Edison receives eCascadia electric Class 8 truck; first utility in the US

Green Car Congress

Photo credit: Elisa Ferrari. SCE’s testing of the eCascadia is a major step down the path of achieving our company’s recently announced fleet electrification goals. —Todd Carlson, SCE principal manager of Fleet Asset Management, who manages the company’s fleet of more than 6,200 vehicles.

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Pininfarina & Hercules Electric Vehicles partners to design Alpha electric pickup truck

Electric Vehicles India

Pininfarina & Hercules Electric Vehicles partners to design Alpha electric pickup truck. The Italian design Pininfarina partners with Detroit, Michigan Hercules electric vehicles company to design Detroit automaker the Hercules Alpha electric pickup and also the other products that will be announced in the coming years.

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Viritech partners with Pininfarina on Apricale hydrogen hypercar

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Viritech, an engineering company developing hydrogen powertrain solutions, is partnering with Pininfarina on Apricale hydrogen hypercar. Pininfarina HAS re-interpreted the Apricale’s initial reference design to create a vision of the future of zero-emissions performance motoring.

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The Michelin Group acquires minority stake in fuel cell company Symbio FCell

Green Car Congress

The Michelin Group has taken a significant minority stake in French fuel cell company Symbio FCell as part of the company’s second round of funding. Symbio FCell designs and produces both PEM-based Hydrogen Fuel Cell Range Extenders (5 kW to 20 kW), and Full Power Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems (80 kW to 300 kW). Earlier post.).

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