article thumbnail

NTSB picks mandatory collision avoidance and connected vehicle technologies as one of most wanted transportation safety improvements

Green Car Congress

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its 2021 – 2022 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements; one of the 10 items in the list was “Require Collision Avoidance and Connected Vehicle Technologies on All Vehicles”. These should not just be options sold as part of expensive add-on packages.

Connect 305
article thumbnail

NIO and Lotus announce plans to co-develop unified battery standards, charging, and swaps

Baua Electric

Lotus Technology and NIO detailed plans to co-develop EV charging and battery swap technologies alongside wishes to create a unified battery standard system. The post NIO and Lotus announce plans to co-develop unified battery standards, charging, and swaps appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. NIO Inc. ($NIO)

article thumbnail

Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture workshop

Green Car Congress

These efforts to identify standards and develop guidelines are most effectively performed by developing a set of System Architecture Viewpoints that describe the: functional, physical and logical interfaces; enterprise relationships; and communications dependencies for each technology and application within the connected vehicle environment.

Connect 262
article thumbnail

The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

Cars That Think

The Metaverse Standards Forum , which launched on 21 June 2022, isn’t trying to wrangle those details—not directly. Now, the forum has announced that after two months of hashing priorities, it has a list of initial priority topics that will steer metaverse standards development in its domain working groups.

Standards 102
article thumbnail

TomTom, Elektrobit and TISA commit to the future of OpenLR standard for dynamic location referencing

Green Car Congress

Association to secure the future of the royalty-free, OpenLR standard for dynamic location referencing. OpenLR is an open standard for procedures and formats for the encoding, transmission, and decoding of local data irrespective of the map. The corresponding locations are roads or a list of connected roads.

Standards 150
article thumbnail

Volvo Cars, Starbucks begin installing ChargePoint EV fast chargers at stores between Denver and Seattle

Green Car Congress

Previously under-resourced to support EV charging, this scenic artery passes near six national forests and unlocks to EV drivers some of the country’s most iconic spots, from the Snoqualmie Pass in Washington, stretching the Snake River in Idaho, spanning Arches National Park in Utah and connecting outdoor destinations like Park City and Vail.

Seattle 435
article thumbnail

EV Charging Industry Protocols and Standards

Driivz

As EVs become a natural part of the transportation ecosystem, we are witnessing a shift toward the standardization of chargers and the introduction of new industry protocols for interoperability. EV Charging Industry Protocols and Standards. It is an international, open-source, vendor-independent standard which is available for free.