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Cadillac to offer advanced V2V and semi-automated driving technologies in certain 2017 MY vehicles

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Super Cruise, GM’s semi-automated driving technology, will come to market in a new 2017 Cadillac vehicle. To do that, we have to be passionate and fearless advocates for safety technologies like vehicle-to-vehicle communication, vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and ultimately, fully autonomous driving.

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Redwood Materials opens up new facility just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada

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Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Redwood’s new facility is just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada, where the automaker has a joint venture with Panasonic to produce electric vehicle batteries.

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DRIVEtheARC EV fast charging corridor opens in Nor Cal; 55 new fast chargers at 25 locations

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DRIVEtheARC, a corridor of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations spanning from Monterey to Lake Tahoe, announced the completion of the chargers’ deployment and its official grand opening on the one year anniversary of the project’s official launch. —Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Chief Sustainability Officer of Nissan Motor.

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GMs Taub: self-driving vehicles could be ready by end of decade

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Vehicles that partially drive themselves will be available by the middle of the decade with more sophisticated self-driving systems by the end of the decade, General Motors Vice President of Global Research and Development Alan Taub told the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Orlando on Sunday. —Alan Taub.

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Japan-US DRIVETHEARC EV fast charging corridor breaks ground in Northern California; 50 fast chargers by March 2017

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DRIVETHEARC , a corridor of electric vehicle (EV) fast charging stations spanning from Monterey to Lake Tahoe, broke ground in El Dorado Hills, Calif. Nissan North America, Kanematsu and EVgo. Nissan North America, Kanematsu and EVgo.

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2013 Cadillac XTS will feature first GM application of sensor fusion; milestone toward semi- and fully autonomous vehicles

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Autonomous sensor systems for vehicle safety. The introduction of the advanced active safety and driver assistance system also marks a significant milestone toward the development of self-driving vehicles, according to GM. Source: GM. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking. GM and V2X. Earlier post.).

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At the EV Crossroads

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stand when it comes to the transition to electric vehicles. When this publication began in 2006 commercially available electric vehicles were a novelty; the idea of a mainstream EV was part of a vision of a sustainable transportation system of the future. He mentioned Carsized as a way to compare the size of two vehicles.

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