Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB has provided electrification, connected control and operations management systems, high-visualization and mobile operator workplaces as part of a global mining partnership to visualize a once-in-a-generation technology shift and reduce climate impact. Real time process information is available to all organizations involved.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

The operational tests took place in seven test sites in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. From an efficiency perspective, functions such as the In-Vehicle Signage (IVS) on speed limit and Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory (GLOSA) indicated significant effects for both the environment and traffic efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance car brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, unveiled the Polestar 2 electric fastback in an online reveal from Polestar’s headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. Polestar 2 will make its first public appearance at the Geneva International Motor Show next week.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 12, 2023

We value the lack of noise far more when coming from a loud environment into a quieter place. We breathe deeper and feel more connected with our surroundings. Noise makes our bodies tense up. It’s stressful. Going from the city into the countryside, we notice how peaceful things are. Our minds clear […]

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Changing the microstructure in magnesium alloys improves their corrosion resistance, and so improves the possibilities for the transport sector to use these materials to decrease the weight of vehicles, according to work done by Mohsen Esmaily, researcher in Atmospheric Corrosion at Chalmers University in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Scania will leave from Södertalje, south of Stockholm, driving through Sweden, Denmark and Germany to Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam, making a stop in Zolder, Belgium and in Zwolle, Netherlands. Daimler is participating in the challenge with Mercedes-Benz Actros Highway Pilot Connect trucks. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Temperatures at the facility used by the marque, located in Arjeplog, Sweden, drop to -26 ?C When the first prototypes are built, engineers perform very basic tests in extreme conditions to ensure that each system is operational and functions at a basic level in a cold weather environment. F) and are further cooled to -40 ?C

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The researchers evaluated 10 months worth of data (September 2009 to June 2010) of atmospheric aerosol particle number size distribution at three atmospheric observation stations along the Baltic Sea coast: Vavihill (upwind, Sweden); Utö (upwind, Finland); and Preila (downwind, Lithuania).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

is developing several new safety systems—factoring in driver behavior in the modern traffic environment—towards achieving its 2020 goal that nobody should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car. Crossroads and junctions are the most complex part of the modern traffic environment. Click to enlarge. Volvo Car Corp.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2023

In these kinds of engineering environments, co-designing with generative AI, high-quality, structured data, and well-studied parameters can clearly lead to more creative and more effective new designs. Midjourney can be used only with an Internet connection and offers different subscription plans. I decided to give it a try.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The aim of the “Drive Me” project, which is endorsed by the Swedish Government, is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility. Autonomous driving Connected vehicles Safety V2X'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

ElectReon has successfully wirelessly charged a fully electric 40-ton truck and trailer at a test facility in Sweden. The next step will be to charge the truck through dynamic wireless power transfer on a public road in Gotland, Sweden. The energy is wirelessly transferred from the coil to a receiver mounted underneath the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The use of this communications methodology, which is used in vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (in this case vehicle wireless charging assembly), is basically interconnecting wireless charging with the new connected vehicles environment. Click to enlarge. Pictures courtesy of Condutix Wämpfler, Scania, and WAVE technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Bosch has opened a new innovation center in Lund, Sweden. The engineers there are working on new software and hardware in areas such as vehicle connectivity, automotive security systems, and motorized two-wheelers. Sweden is on the global vanguard when it comes to fields of research including information and communications technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The new EU project SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project will develop and test technology for vehicles that can drive themselves in long road trains on motorways. Tags: Connected vehicles Fuel Efficiency. An autonomous road train as envisioned by SARTRE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

A few weeks ago, the company demonstrated the SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), which focuses on platooning in highway and motorway traffic at speeds of up to 90 km/h (56 mph). The low-speed traffic jam assistance system is the second technology for autonomous driving recently presented by Volvo Car Corporation.

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Independent of specific connector type, charging stations fall into three main categories, each with distinct attributes: Level 1 – De Facto/Legacy Charging Level 1 chargers connect to regular 110/220-volt AC (alternating current) electric outlets, ranging in output from 1 to 7.5 kWs and are included with EVs manufactured in the U.S.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

The SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) ( earlier post ) has recently completed the first successful test demonstration of a multiple vehicle platoon, with Volvo Car Corporation as the only participating car manufacturer. SARTRE multiple vehicle platoon on the test track. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

USA, South Korea, Sweden. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. It is always a learning process to discover how the robots respond to new classes of obstacle; responding to this on the fly in a new environment is extremely challenging. Team CoSTAR. Team CoSTAR. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology.

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EV Central

MAY 17, 2024

The Chinese-owned brand that has its headquarters in Sweden is effectively the performance – and design-focussed – spin-off of Volvo, part of the giant Geely Group. Polestar is positioning itself as a maker of driver’s cars that also look good, with clean Swedish design influence and the latest connected technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Cervero believes that VMT (vehicle miles traveled—the number of miles you drive in your car each year), needs to decrease to have a more sustainable environment and he believes Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a way to achieve this goal in a way that people can embrace. Still, Prof. Bandivadekar, A., Heywood, J., Kasseris, E.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

Volvo Cars’ research team created a 100-meter long test track at the company’s testing facilities in Hällered outside Gothenburg, Sweden. Sensor fusion for precise autonomous vehicle navigation in outdoor semi-structured environments,” Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005. The car was equipped with several magnetic field sensors.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Paper ] Tin Lun Lam writes, "Recently, we have upgraded FreeBOT (a kind of Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot) such that they can detect the connection configuration dynamically without using any external sensing system. It is a very important milestone for our ongoing work to make FreeBOT fully autonomous." [ CUHK ] Thanks Tin Lun!

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2021

Paper ] Tin Lun Lam writes, "Recently, we have upgraded FreeBOT (a kind of Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot) such that they can detect the connection configuration dynamically without using any external sensing system. It is a very important milestone for our ongoing work to make FreeBOT fully autonomous." [ CUHK ] Thanks Tin Lun!

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them. While many U.S. Companies like. As one example, equipment manufacturers (such as China's Huawei and. At the moment, says.

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Cars That Think

MAY 15, 2024

So can you talk a little bit about what it was like adapting to these partners like 3M and what changes you had to make and what things you learned in that process where you go from, “Okay, we have a great product and we could make our own small products, but we want to now connect in as part of this larger supply chain.”

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 8, 2022

Help to Shape The Charging Environment. These data might be utilized to meet a variety of connected car use cases, such as providing tailored services or third-party marketing. It’s also crucial to provide smooth online-offline connectivity between digital touchpoints and dealers. Perfect Your Omnichannel Strategy.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The carbon footprint of the most common type of battery for EVs is estimated to be 61-106kg of CO2 emissions equivalent per kilowatt hour of battery capacity, according to the latest data compiled and modeled by battery researchers at IVL Sweden. EV battery packs usually last much longer than just the warranty date.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The carbon footprint of the most common type of battery for EVs is estimated to be 61-106kg of CO2 emissions equivalent per kilowatt hour of battery capacity, according to the latest data compiled and modeled by battery researchers at IVL Sweden. EV battery packs usually last much longer than just the warranty date.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?" Kwong asked.

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