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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

Green Car Congress

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. The company shared its plans with investors during a conference at its Milford Proving Ground.

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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

Cars That Think

The frequency increases when a person is relaxed and not moving. The computer then sent a 5-volt logic pulse through the D/A converter—which the transistor amplifier magnified and sent to the robot. Bozinovska suggested using the EEG’s prominent alpha-range frequency of 8 to 12 hertz—known as the mu rhythm.

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OnStar Service to Launch in China in December

Green Car Congress

Next year, OnStar will play an important role at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai where visitors will see a vision for personal urban transportation in the year 2030. GM is already leveraging OnStar’s data aggregation and mining capabilities in the development and testing of the Chevrolet Volt.

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Goal!

Plug In Partners

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. Tags: electric cars environment plug-in cars BMW Mini-E Bob Lutz BYD Chevy Volt Chrysler Ford GM Nissan Leaf Plug-In America Warren Buffett.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Every [Volt] will come equipped so you have some type of charger. —Jon Lauckner.

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GM's New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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