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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced up to $30 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ). improvements to and application of existing fusion R&D capabilities to accelerate the development of multiple concepts.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. —Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The method could be useful as a future energy source if the individual fusion pulses can be sequenced like the firing of an automobile’s cylinders.

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EV Central

JANUARY 4, 2023

Minimalist design isn’t something we’ve associated with BMW of late, so the just-revealed electric i Vision Dee concept is a refreshing, simplistic treat. A world away from front grilles that could swallow a herd of buffalo, the i Vision Dee mid-size sedan concept offers, BMW says, a new and pared-down design language.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The concept is to inject electron beams into the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant and, firing them in pulses, break apart the NOx bonds. NRL chemist Dr. Matthew Wolford has already proven the concept works at a small scale, using a mixture of just nitrogen and NO x. Wolford is now testing with a more realistic sample.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

and TomTom (TOM2), the location technology specialist, are collaborating on a proof-of-concept for the development of a new real-time hazard service for navigation and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). This information is transferred to TomTom’s cloud-based fusion engine, currently used for its traffic data service TomTom Traffic.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Honda teamed with student designers for its latest EV concept. Ford is recalling 2019 Fusion Energis for an electric-shock hazard. VW is cleaning up its emissions act, not just in cars, but in its factories. And readers weigh in on the Green New Deal in our latest Twitter poll. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2012

BMW i8 Concept Spyder. Following on the presentation of the BMW i3 Concept and BMW i8 Concept coupé at the Frankfurt show in 2011 ( earlier post ), the BMW Group has introduced a third i Model: the BMW i8 Concept Spyder. Like the i8 coupé concept, the BMW i8 Concept Spyder with eDrive is a plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Nissan''s plug-in hybrid plans, a bill to permit Tesla Motors'' direct sales model in New Jersey, and the Ford Fusion Lightweight concept points toward more-efficient cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2014

Among Volkswagen’s premieres at Auto China 2014 in Beijing was the MQB-based New Midsize Coupé concept car. Volkswagen said that the concept—a fusion of A and B segments—demonstrates the flexibility of the MQB toolkit. New Midsize Coupé, four-door design concept. New Midsize Coupé, four-door design concept.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The fail-operational architectural concept and its key components ensure the safe operation of highway pilot functions, valet parking and autonomous truck driving in case individual functions fail. With a budget of about €50 million, PRYSTINE aimed to realize safe automated driving by fail-operational urban surround perception.

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JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Lightweight Concept. Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. Click to enlarge. —Raj Nair, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development.

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MAY 25, 2022

Around 50,000 components per year can be manufactured cost-effectively in common part production, as well as more than 10,000 individual and new parts, by means of 3D printing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). Over the course of the project, innovative concepts were developed for automated generation of 3D printing construction data.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Coupled with its in-house Sensor Fusion technology, Pony.ai is also unveiling a concept design for the new AD system, making the sensor suite more integrated and aesthetically pleasing while also more effective for mass production. The central mechanical LiDAR has been replaced with solid-state LiDARs. In the S-AM model, Pony.ai

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Two concept cars will also be demonstrating the Audi vision for level 4 and level 5. At the same time, a second data fusion takes place in the radar control unit. Highly automated level 4 concept car with new technology. The second Audi concept car for the IAA is heading autonomously into the future. meters (16.1

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JANUARY 2, 2021

Livox’s customized solution for Xpeng also includes a new “ultra FPS” (Frames Per Second) lidar technology concept. Xpeng has developed an autonomous driving architecture with multiple modules for mass production vehicles: perception, behavior planning, behavior/motion prediction and map fusion.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. Moynihan , a nuclear engineer and fusion consultant to investors.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

Light weight will soon be big business at Ford. The company''s F-150 truck, going aluminum for the first time with the 2015 model, sheds 700 lbs over its predecessor, thanks to its new construction. Ford sells over half a million F-Series every year--big business indeed.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2015

Further emphasizing its push towards production-ready piloted driving, Audi is showcasing a piloted driving version of its prologue concept hybrid—unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2014—at 2015 CES. Prologue piloted driving. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The hybrid powertrain has a muscular 4.0 Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In addition, Novelis CSCs will provide an environment to demonstrate product concepts, simulate customer processes and performance in use, as well as leverage data to educate stakeholders throughout the supply chain about elements ranging from forming to costing.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

The proof-of-concept truck was conceived and constructed at the PACCAR Innovation Center. The special Kenworth T680 is equipped with cameras, lidar, and radars to sense the surrounding road environment and to feed fusion algorithms in the perception stack for object identification and tracking.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

Throughout the AutoDrive Challenge competition cycle, students and faculty will be invited to attend technology-specific workshops to help them in their concept refinement and overall autonomous technical understanding. They will be tasked with completion of a concept design written paper as well as simple missions for on-site evaluation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2017

Nanostructured steel materials company NanoSteel recently launched its first product for the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process. BLDRmetal L-40 is a case-hardening steel powder that provides high hardness and ductility (case hardness >70HRC, 10%+ core elongation) and prints easily on standard commercial equipment.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. Brookhaven National Laboratory PROOF OF CONCEPT: A research team led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and ABB built a magnetic energy-storage system using HTS that achieved a 12.5-tesla

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The focus will be on real-world applications of sensing technologies, computing platforms, software design implementation and advanced computation methods such as: computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion and autonomous vehicle controls.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Professor Jaeseon Lee’s team in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering has successfully deployed the key concepts of Elon Musk’s superfast Hyperloop transit system, such as massive vacuum tube, magnetic levitation, and linear electric motor, in a small-scale demonstration environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

Among the technologies Ford incorporated into its drivable multi-material lightweight vehicle (MMLV) ( earlier post ) is an advanced polycarbonate (PC) glazing solution from SABIC’s Innovative Plastics business that makes possible a 35% weight reduction compared to the same window on a 2013 model year Ford Fusion production vehicle.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

The future self-driving vehicle value chain will be driven by software feature sets, complex algorithms for sensor fusion and motion controls, low system costs, and high performance hardware. By 2025, vehicles will operate with fully centralized systems that incorporate sensor fusion to deliver more features with fewer components (e.g.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2022

. “At the new company, we will strive to create new value through the fusion brought about by the combination of our different industries, so please look forward to future developments,” he added. ”, the car had been made in conjunction with Magna Incorporated.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The unique selling proposition of the AI-capable ZF ProAI RoboThink is its modular hardware concept and open software architecture. With increasing automation, new concepts for seat positions in fully automated delivery vehicles or robo-taxis are also in demand. —Torsten Gollewski.

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MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. ALPHA AWARDS. Lead organization.

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MAY 18, 2016

sensor fusion. This same concept is applied in the AcuraWatch safety and driver-assistive suite available on all model year 2016 Acura sedans and SUVs. These enhancements have been combined with new, more intelligent software algorithms to support more complex testing scenarios.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Cadillac’s Super Cruise uses a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data. An autonomous derivative of the Chevrolet EN-V urban mobility concept, which is tailored for the world’s mega-cities, as well as corporate and academic campus settings. Click to enlarge. —Mary Barra.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

UZH RPG ] Robotic Choreographer is the world’s first dance performance-only robot arm born from the concept of performers that are bigger and faster than humans. This robot has a total length of 3 meters, two rotation axes that rotate infinitely, and an arm rotating up to five times for 1 second. GRASP Lab ]

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