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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

Green Car Congress

To begin identifying new innovations in accessible transportation, the CTA Foundation, IBM and Local Motors will launch a series of workshops and hackathons throughout 2017 to reach innovators of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. —Ruoyi Zhou, director of accessibility research, IBM.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

Green Car Congress

In the last decade, wireless usage across the US has expanded significantly, with nearly 350 million smartphones, connected tablets and wearable devices in use—more than double the number from a decade ago—carrying more than 100,000 times the traffic they supported in 2008.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans launches “Startup adVANce” competition for partners for future transport solutions

Green Car Congress

These are: Connectivity/IoT (digital@vans): hardware and software solutions which promote the connectivity of the van and enable real-time interaction between all factors involved in transport, such as goods and vehicle. In this phase the submitted ideas will be fleshed out in workshops together with Mercedes-Benz Vans.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

Cars That Think

It provides women of color a safe space to connect with each other. In 2011 she took a position at the university as a lecturer and started her own LGBTQ+ network there so she could help create a better environment. If you want to make a change in a very difficult and unchanging environment, you must be disruptive.

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RSA report Inside the Mind of a Cabbie explores how to influence more fuel-efficient driving behavior

Green Car Congress

weight, personal comfort and journey planning. RSA focused on: Cabbies’ personal views and outlooks: what do they think and care about? The answers to these questions influenced the design of RSA’s behavior change interventions at a workshop. Steer: Mastering our behavior Through Instinct, Environment and Reason.

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TWAICE battery analytics platform promises enormously valuable insights at every point in a battery’s lifecycle

Charged EVs

Michael Baumann: I’ve always been a very technology-passionate and technology-driven person, and I wanted to make an impact with technology for the planet and for our society. This is connected with all the individual batteries in the field, and gets all the data on the vehicles or stationary storage or whatever.

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The Curious Case of the Torrance Enivornmental Commission

Creative Greenius

I’ll admit that my expectations were based on my experiences with the South Bay Green Task Force, the Manhattan Beach Environmental Task Force and the other environmental organizations whose meetings, workshops and presentations I attend. Fortunately there was one other person in the room who made my attendance time very well spent.