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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

Green Car Congress

Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. The CAN translation module is a microcontroller with two connections: one to the CAN bus via the OBD-II port, and one to the host device via USB. OpenXC architecture.

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It’s all about connection

Electric Auto Association

In fact, the chapter has taken connection to a new level in that Andy Huynh, the president of the Inland Empire Tesla Club , helped launch the EAA chapter and is now serving as the president of both organizations. The change that we want to see in the world starts with ourselves and our personal friends and family.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant. 39% assumed charging station refers to the site/location and 43.2%

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This 6-Million-Dollar AI Changes Accents as You Speak

Cars That Think

They also had an idea, sparked by a conversation with another friend, a computer science major who had gone back to his home in Guatemala, where he had gotten a job at a call center doing tech support in order to support his family. . … People have done voice conversion for deep fakes, and that technology is pretty advanced.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

Cars That Think

IEEE Spectrum carried out its conversation with Foster by email to find out more about why RF exposure assessment research has been such a success, what makes RF dosimetry so difficult, and why public worries about health and wireless radiation never seem to go away. Foster: Risk perception is a complicated business.

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

Every person we spoke with wanted to talk—to vent, even—and to share conversations they’d had and anecdotes they’d heard from others in the business. Fury at Electrify America It’s hard to overstate the disgust and anger at Electrify America among virtually every person we interviewed.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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