Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

UK-based Ashwoods Automotive , a provider of hybrid-electric vans and hybrid drive systems, is offering a hybrid drive retrofit kit for panel vans. The company has also developed a retrofit stop/start engine system, which can further reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 5-10%. The Ashwoods motor generator unit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2023

International defense company Babcock International has been awarded a one-year contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to help the British Army understand the applications and constraints of electric propulsion. I’m excited to see how the converted Land Rovers perform in a test environment against diesel and hybrid equivalents.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Robotic Research, a leading developer of autonomous mobility and robotics solutions, today announced a $228-million funding round—the first outside capital the company has raised.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

Panasonic Corporation has acquired all the outstanding shares of the German software company OpenSynergy GmbH, making it a subsidiary. OpenSynergy’s core products are the modular software development kit COQOS SDK for cockpit controller and connectivity systems and the leading Bluetooth stack Blue SDK.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

The company has installed equipment and adopted new testing protocols in its Plymouth, Mich., The IsoC, a six-by-three-by-three-foot, two-chambered glass and steel enclosure, allows chemists to work in a controlled, inert and moisture-free environment. Full protective gear is required when handling the electrolytic solutions.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2024

The Spot RL Researcher Kit is a collaboration between Boston Dynamics, Nvidia, and the AI Institute. It includes a joint-level control API, an Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin payload, and a simulation environment for Spot based on Nvidia Isaac Lab. The Spot Early Adopter Program for the new RL Researcher Kit is open for applications here.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a company developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has hit a number of key milestones through multiple partnerships with customers, manufacturers, and fuel providers. Several other pilots with other companies are also planned through the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The announcement comes on the heels of Google’s debut release of the Android Auto software developer kit (SDK), which allows Android developers to extend their apps to the in-vehicle environment. Honda Developer Studio is the product of Honda Silicon Valley Lab (HSVL), Honda’s open innovation laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ë-Berlingo Van is targeted in particular at SMEs, delivery companies, craftsmen and tradesmen who make a lot of short-distance trips and need free access to their loading area in regulated zones. 41% are tradesmen or companies in the construction or delivery sector often operating in urban environments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

Since the beginning of the year, GM has entered into a strategic alliance with ride-sharing company Lyft ( earlier post ); formed Maven, its personal mobility brand for car-sharing fleets in many US cities ( earlier post ), and established a separate unit for autonomous vehicle development ( earlier post ).

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In December of 2021 at the mock lunar surface environment in JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus, the GITAI lunar robotic rover R1 conducted numerous tasks and mobility operations, successfully completing all planned tests. This is cool looking, but I'd need to know more about how this system can deal with an actual lunar environment, right?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2017

The ARIBO program allows current civilian robotics technology to be examined in vehicles in a semi-controlled environment such as military bases like West Point which have restricted roads, predefined routes and restrictive operations for favorable conditions. Acceptance of robotic technologies by government users and non-users.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 13, 2023

The company will be focusing on “over 1,500 enterprise and public sector customers” that are, to be fair, doing many useful and important things with Skydio drones rather than just shooting videos of themselves like the rest of us. Last time we checked, the Skydio 2+ enterprise kit was US $5,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Civil Maps recently held a series of test drive experiences in vehicles equipped with its AR display and proprietary localization technology, showing passengers how self-driving cars using Civil Maps technology observe and navigate complex driving environments in real time.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 14, 2023

Experts retrofitted the baby blue 1968 model with an electric motor, which the company used to debut its conversion program. The electric-powered version of its 1970 model features a conversion kit with a battery shaped like a cassette. Those who convert their internal combustion engines won’t miss a beat, either.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Large automotive conglomerates like Stellantis (parent company of well-known brands like Ram, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge) are now focusing on extending car lifetimes and reusing parts to reduce carbon emissions. Surprisingly, a survey by Zebra found that the average American only keeps their longest-owned car for eight years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

Project leaders Curtis Berlinguette and Simon Trudel, both in the chemistry department in the Faculty of Science, have patented their technology and created from their university research a spin-off company, FireWater Fuel Corp. Sedach, Man Kit Jack Siu, Simon Trudel, and Curtis P. —Smith et al. FireWater Fuel Corp. 1233638.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Michelin Uptis airless tires No flats, no blowouts, no pressure checks Michelin’s prototype airless tire line, Uptis (Unique Puncture-proof Tire System), may have been conceived to have less impact on the environment, but as the name origin suggests it has other big advantages.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

Via this system, customers of a car sharing company will be provided with an electric vehicle that is optimally charged for their purposes. The model will support the cooperation of various service providers, such as car sharing companies, the public passenger transport system or businesses. Traffic flows also will be analyzed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2017

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three companies towards fully autonomous driving. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Paper ] We present FLEX-SDK: an open-source software development kit that allows creating a social robot from two simple tablet screens. Please send us your events for inclusion. TRI ] Thanks, Lukas!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. —Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company president and CEO. Earlier this month, the company introduced Ford Smart Mobility at the 2015 International CES. Maciuca holds a Ph.D. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Led by Bosch, the University of Stuttgart, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a total of thirty companies will define the foundations for software-defined manufacturing (SDM) over the next three years in the SDM4FZI research project (Software-Defined Manufacturing for the Vehicle and Supplier Industry).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

DRIVE IX, an intelligent experience software development kit, will enable AI assistants for both drivers and passengers, using sensors inside and outside the car. More than 25 companies are already using NVIDIA technology to develop fully autonomous robotaxis; Pegasus will be the path to production. Aurora, Uber, and ZF/Baidu.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. OpenXC gives developers and researchers the tools they need to get involved.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment. First, the world’s motor vehicle manufacturers are as capable as the fossil fuel companies of translating their economic power into political clout.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Academic partners include Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Stuttgart, the Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart (FKSF), and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, an innovation partner of KIT. Andreas Westendorf, SofDCar project leader at Bosch.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Digitalization and innovations help the company organise logistics more flexibly and more efficiently. In a virtual environment, planners can quickly and efficiently lay out future logistics areas completely and assess how much space is needed, for instance. Virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. During the 1990s, as the size of files and software increased, computer companies searched for alternatives. MB of data.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The company set the vehicle to cover a 100 km (62-mile) route from Mannheim to Pforzheim—retracing that taken by motoring pioneer Bertha Benz exactly 125 years ago when she set off on the first long-distance drive. These environment features were previously entered on a digital map. Click to enlarge. Autonomous turning.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The hub contains a motor, 3-speed internal hub gear, batteries, a torque sensor, GPRS and a sensor kit that monitors CO, NO x , noise (db), relative humidity and temperature. There is no external wiring or bulky battery packs, making it retrofittable into any bike. Everything is controlled by your feet,” Ratti explains.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Our commitment began with CNG kit manufacturing in 2010, followed by investments in EV R&D in 2017. Uno Minda believes the industry is already on the right track, evidenced by the exports exceeding USD 20 billion in calendar year 2023, increased R&D investment with several foreign companies establishing technology centers in India.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2022

If this mainstream vote of confidence in ROS 2 by a company like iRobot surprises you, well then maybe a Create 3 should be the next robot in your life. Learning ROS 2 also gives students valuable experience that many companies are seeking when hiring robotics developers. There’s even more!

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The lab performs fundamental and applied research in the area of robot autonomy to create agile autonomous machines that operate in unstructured and dynamically changing environments without relying on any external infrastructure and are able to improve their autonomous behaviors learning from their experience.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

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). Sina is an online media company serving China and the global Chinese communities.

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Electric Vehicless

JUNE 29, 2021

More and more companies are coming up with variants of their electric vehicles. Reports by World Health Organization (WHO) further indicate that exposure to higher levels of noise in the environment, particularly above 53 decibels (dB), can lead to health issues like heart problems, high blood pressure and even hearing losses.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Once registered, a user will be able to compete against themselves, a friend (celebrity in future releases), as a team (future release), and insurance companies (future releases) in energy and safe driver challenges. Green Button Gamer is going beyond its initial release that gamified users meter data to now gamify the driving experience.

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