Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

The WYDOT (Wyoming Department of Transportation) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot is focusing on improving safety and mobility by creating new ways to communicate road and travel information to commercial truck drivers and fleet managers along the 402 miles of Interstate 80 (I-80) in the State. Antenna design including style (e.g.,

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EV Specifications

MAY 14, 2024

The vehicle has a refreshed design. The front part gives a futuristic yet wide feel centered around daytime running lights (DRL) with Kia's new family look, 'Star Map Signature Lighting', and connects the hood's character line to the. The first deliveries are expected to happen in June.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Honda just premiered two CRAZY electric vehicle designs at this year’s CES event in Las Vegas, and has plans to bring them to market with a launch in 2026. Honda’s Saloon and Space-Hub vehicles are the first pieces of a wider introduction of the Honda 0 Series , which is based on the Saloon concept in North America.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Greenlots, a member of the Shell Group and a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions, has installed charging infrastructure for a fleet of electrified commercial trucks as part of its ongoing partnership with Volvo Trucks. Heavy-duty fleets have unique charging characteristics and needs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Power management company Eaton introduced a family of 48-volt DC-DC converters for diesel-powered commercial vehicles that can be used to power accessories such as antilock brakes and lighting. C and boast 97% design efficiency. —Ben Karrer, director, Technology Development, Eaton’s eMobility business.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

The US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is awarding $18 million in funding to four projects that will help passenger vehicles operate more efficiently. Earlier post.). UC Berkeley’s NEXTCAR project resulted in a spin-off company, WideSense Inc., Award amount is $3,474,864.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology aimed at helping reduce vehicle hazards that school children face every year. Children are among the most vulnerable and continue to be at great risk in school zones, especially when other vehicles are present and vehicles fail to yield for pedestrians.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

In support of General Motors’ vision of a zero-emissions, all-electric future, Buick will bring its first electric vehicle to market for North America in 2024. Buick also unveiled the Wildcat EV concept—an expressive vision of the brand’s new design direction as it transitions to an all-electric future. Wildcat EV Concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2018

Hyundai will feature this new in-vehicle network in their premium 2019 vehicles. In 2016, Cisco and Hyundai reported plans to develop a vehicle with a new approach to communication. The companies said they would create a flexible and more secure platform that would offer a path to innovate and build on smart-vehicle solutions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2020

while working with the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) and the University of Hawaii College of Engineering to extend the deployment of connected vehicle infrastructure across the entire state of Hawaii with C-V2X. Applied Information will exclusively implement C-V2X technologies developed by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At the North American Commercial Vehicle Show (NACV) in Atlanta this week, Bosch is showcasing its portfolio of automated, connected and electrified technologies for commercial vehicles. At NACV, Bosch will debut its 15-inch freely programmable cluster, the largest digital cluster available for the commercial vehicle industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2021

Power management company Eaton announced its eMobility business secured a contract to supply power distribution units (PDUs) and Bussmann series fuses to a global vehicle manufacturer for use in a new battery electric (BEV) light-duty commercial vehicle—a rapidly growing segment for BEVs. —Kevin Calzada.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is preparing to issue (on or before 15 January 2015) a solicitation for a full and open competition to procure services for the Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment program, Phase 1: Concept Development. Accordingly, USDOT has issued the synopsis notice ( DTFH6115R00003 ) for Phase 1.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

Engineers from Battelle Memorial Institute, working with the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) as part of the United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Connected Vehicle research program, have developed and are demonstrating a forward-collision-avoidance system for buses. Emergency electronic brake light, or EEBL (V2V).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

ReachNow, the mobility services division of the BMW Group, Woodland Park Zoo, and the City of Seattle celebrated the successful installation of the first of 20 Light & Charge electric vehicle (EV) charging locations that will more than double the number of Fast Chargers publicly available in Seattle. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Toyota bZ Compact SUV Concept is designed as a full battery-electric vehicle, using a clean-vital design approach. Toyota said that this approach aims to express what’s special about battery-electric vehicles while also offering fun to drive, exhilarating performance.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

SAIC-GM, GM’s Chinese joint venture with SAIC, announced its Connectivity Strategy 2025, which lays out a roadmap for its connectivity development from 2017 through 2025. The strategy will take advantage of its extensive customer base and global resources with a focus on vehicle information, infotainment and intelligent driving.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Built on the e:N Architecture F, a dedicated architecture developed exclusively for the e:N Series, the e:N2 Concept was designed to achieve unique driving pleasure, enabling the driver to enjoy a strong “sense of unity with the vehicle.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. Current plans call for the facility to be completed by fall 2014 at a cost of about $6.5 —Peter Sweatman, director of the U-M Mobility Transformation Center (MTC).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

At the Geneva Motor Show, Renault introduced EZ-GO, an electric, autonomous, shared robo-vehicle concept—both a vehicle and a service—that allows people to hail a ride either from a fixed or mobile location. EZ-GO was designed with individuals or small groups in mind. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. —Gawron et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Prologue design features clean and simple "Neo-Rugged" exterior and interior styling and ample interior space. Prologue’s generous dimensions and roomy interior position the SUV alongside the Passport in Honda’s light truck lineup. inch audio/connectivity display. Prologue will have a wheelbase of 121.8-inches,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Audi is the first manufacturer to launch Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology in the US, with the deployment of Traffic Light Information in select 2017 Audi A4, Q7 and allroad models in Las Vegas. This “time-to-green” feature will be the first feature to leverage the Audi Traffic Light Information service. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

At its Global Technology Day in Friedrichshafen, ZF presented the electric concept vehicle EVbeat, which is designed for maximum compactness, low weight, and maximum efficiency in real operation. In this ZF electric vehicle, the components of an e-driveline have been optimized and combined into a holistic system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Hackett said Ford will improve its operational fitness, refocus capital allocation and accelerate the introduction of smart vehicles and services. in 2016), the company said it is expanding its scope to include vehicles and services—all designed around human-centered experiences.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $32 million in funding for 10 innovative projects as part of the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.) Organization. Description. General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The trial demonstrated how the connected car automatically shares braking, acceleration and location data that can be analyzed by the central traffic authority to identify and resolve road network issues. Raw data from the vehicles highlighted 48,000 incidents over a period of six months, from 1.8 IBM and NXP Semiconductors N.V.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). Support mobility technologies such as connected and automated vehicles, as well as innovations in transit.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

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. Powertrain design, which led to a 24% weight reduction through the use of: 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

GM Defense will leverage GM’s Ultium Platform as it works to meet DIU’s requirement for a scalable design that can be used for tactical military vehicles. GM Defense delivers integrated vehicles, power and propulsion, and mobility and autonomy solutions to global defense, security and government markets.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Last December, reports emerged from the Tesla community indicating that a Model S with a new taillight design and revised charging door had been sighted on public roads. Rumors of an upcoming Model S design update were rekindled in January when Tesla held an event for its Plaid series in Taiwan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2018

In Marysville, Ohio, Honda held a demonstration of its “Smart Intersection” technology for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication designed to reduce traffic collisions at roadway intersections—one of the first such deployments of V2X technology in a real-world setting.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2014

Partners in this area are exploring five sub-projects: Measurement and modeling of vehicle surroundings. Safe lateral and longitudinal vehicle control in urban areas. In a BMW 5 Series research vehicle it is already possible to recognize detailed features of a pedestrian—i.e. Collision avoidance by braking and swerving.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

Toyota Motor Corporation has launched its updated Sora Fuel Cell Electrified Vehicle bus (FCEV bus) with improvements to its preventive safety performance. New features include: ITS Connect Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication System (DSSS, Driving Safety Support Systems). ITS Connect Vehicle-Convoy Information Service.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The electric muscle car closely resembles the concept with the included Fratzog logo and signature light bar. Dodge said the design is a nod to the brand’s muscle car legacy with influence from a 1986 Charger. According to the caption, very little noise came from the vehicle, suggesting it could be a pre-production Charger EV.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Volvo Cars is updating its 90 series cars with new powertrain, safety and connectivity updates. This is primarily a safety-related feature, designed to make our interface the easiest to use on the market. With Connected Safety, Volvo Cars is helping to define a completely new type of road safety system. l/100 km (54.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Arrival , the developer of a new method of design and production of affordable electric vehicles (EVs) by local microfactories, has started trials of the Arrival Bus at a testing facility (MIRA) in the UK. The vehicles will be going through rigorous validation and testing ahead of certification.

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