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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). It is a track record of success that gives us tremendous confidence as we launch CSRC Next.

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Embracing a century of EV history

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National Drive Electric Week event connects Indiana’s EV future with its EV past. Richard Steiner (right) and his Waverley at the Hoosier EVA 2021 NDEW event. When it comes to electric vehicles (EVs), the people of Indiana are a tough sell. Everyone wanted a test drive,” Steiner said. This saved me the trip.”.

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New Argonne-developed tool helps car buyers compare electric-drive and traditional vehicles

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States currently covered by the new tool are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin. Consumers in seven US Midwest states seeking information about plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles now have access to a new-vehicle purchase guidance tool created by Argonne National Laboratory.

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Startup SF Motors announces two EVs; up to 1000 hp, 0-60 mph in less than 3 seconds

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SF Motors, a Silicon Valley electric vehicle (EV) startup and subsidiary of Shanghai-based Sokon Industry Group ( earlier post ), announced its latest technological advances and a new line of intelligent electric vehicles at an event at its Santa Clara headquarters.

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Embracing a century of EV history

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National Drive Electric Week event connects Indiana’s EV future with its EV past. Richard Steiner (right) and his Waverley at the Hoosier EVA 2021 NDEW event. When it comes to electric vehicles (EVs), the people of Indiana are a tough sell. Everyone wanted a test drive,” Steiner said. This saved me the trip.”.

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The EV Professor

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Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My Because of the success, Cox and Senator Haar repeated the event annually until Haar was term limited out 3 years later.

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Startup vision

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with a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “In Back in Indiana, they moved into the startup space, where they met Jing, who has an extensive background in online business. In Jakarta, the water is brown and there’s garbage floating on top. We’re hoping to get to 90% in 2024.”

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