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Jaguar Land Rover in two UK projects worth ~$16M to advance connected and autonomous vehicle technology

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million) to advance connected and autonomous vehicle technology. million) UK-CITE (UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment) project will create the first test route capable of testing both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure systems on public roads in the UK. million (US$7.9-million)

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Tantalum launches 1000-vehicle trial of Air.Car device for real-time NOx feedback

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Tantulum Corporation has teamed up with data scientists from Imperial College London to build “Air.Car”—a OBD-connected device which will produce highly accurate, real-time NO x feedback as you drive. million) collaborative project to deliver real-time NONO x x emissions estimation capability from an OBD connected device.

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DRIVEN consortium to test Level 4 autonomous fleet in UK in 2019

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The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford. DRIVEN is supported by a £8.6-million Source: SAE International.

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UK Government awards more than US$141M to 38 driverless and low carbon vehicle projects

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million); and the second round of the connected autonomous vehicles competition (CAV2) – 24 projects with support up to £31 million (US$40 million). million (US$21.5 The test bed program forms part of the government’s Industrial Strategy commitment to develop world-class CAV testing infrastructure.

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GKN to supply 500 electric flywheel hybrid drive systems to Go-Ahead Group for buses

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The Mk4 eFES has a separate inverter so that the flywheel and inverter combination connect directly to the vehicle’s DC bus. million) grant from the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), awarded in 2012. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million Earlier post.). In April, GKN and its partners received a £7.6-million

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I still remember the number, down to the last dollar.”

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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