Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence and connected vehicles are interesting inventions in the field of vehicles. Autonomous driving of a vehicle is a technology in which a vehicle travels itself without the help of a driver. An autonomous vehicle acts as a personal assistant who can go to the shop and bring some vegetables for you.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. We are working to make these new technologies accessible to everyone, not just luxury customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

—Martin Hauschild, Head of Traffic Technology and Traffic Management at the BMW Group. The concept of intermodal routing is enhanced by the DriveNow package available in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and San Francisco. Cooperative transponder technologies (Ko-TAG). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Autonomous vehicle technology company Nauto has entered into strategic agreements with three major auto companies, including BMW i Ventures and Toyota Research Institute, as well as with Allianz Ventures, part of the leading global financial service provider and insurance company Allianz Group.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Audi this week demonstrated some of the early concept results of the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project to media in San Francisco. Highlights of the featured technology include: Audi Driver Centric Urban Navigation. Autonomous driving Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Urban mobility' Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2022

It was brain activity that made those words materialize—the brain of a man who has not spoken for more than 15 years, ever since a stroke damaged the connection between his brain and the rest of his body, leaving him mostly paralyzed. University of California, San Francisco. University of California, San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2015

TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Connected Traveler: A Framework to Reduce Energy Use in Transportation.

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Cars That Think

JULY 22, 2023

One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. They cannot carry out any reconciliation, interconnection or automated linking with other processing of personal data.”

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2023

Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. Throughout his career, he has been a proponent of expanding the reach of technology to more people. I never expected it, given that I have often diverged from mainstream technology into economics and policy. It’s a very dangerous situation,” Alamouti warns.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The MEB will be the foundation for an entirely new generation of battery-electric vehicles designed not only to be electric and feature extended range, but to be connected, autonomous, open and priced for the volume market as required by Volkswagen’s positioning. The first production MEB vehicle, a version of the I.D.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And we scattered around the Bay Area, to San Francisco, Pleasanton, as well as Palo Alto, and we were keeping in touch online. Andres Perez Soderi, Sanas "When he got the job," Soderi said, "we told him that he'd be the best tech support person they'd ever had, he's the smartest guy we've met and always had a smile on his face."

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Ford Smart Mobility is the company’s plan to deliver the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data; the initial stage was the creation of 25 mobility experiments across the globe. In many cities, driving a personal vehicle from home to work is not feasible. It runs through November.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Features are paving the way to self-driving cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

While it was picking up steam at that point, in the years since it has morphed and been influenced by changing technology, both in vehicles and in the software that enables the service. Autonomous technology can overlay much of this as well. Some big players have jumped in and then retreated.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Yes, it’s the fastest of the three models below Sapphire (0-60 mph in 3 seconds), but I’d personally be more than happy in a Touring while saving some cash. He said that Lucid is not trying to beat or replace the phone but that there is potential in that technology and its experience that the automaker feels can do better with a car.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 9, 2023

Before connected vehicles had become ubiquitous, numerous companies suggested that they would be networked into roadway infrastructure to improve safety and decrease traffic congestion. While the concept of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity has been around since at least the 1950s, any tangible progress has been relatively recent.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

San Diego to San Francisco? The C-shaped horizontal LED tail lights are connected by a light strip that runs the full width of the rear and sits above the rear fascia with black accents. Chrysler says the Pacifica Hybrid is “the most technologically advanced minivan in its class.” Charlotte to Orlando?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. The average peak electric demand for a house in San Francisco is 1.8 In other words, adding an electric vehicle at 220 is like adding another home to the network or to the system, and that would be a home in the San Ramon area. —Peter Darbee.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Renault-Nissan Alliance will launch more than 10 vehicles with autonomous drive technology in the next four years in the United States, Europe, Japan and China. The technology will be installed on mainstream, mass-market cars at affordable prices. —Renault-Nissan Alliance chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

If you are one of those “I will never drive a minivan” type of persons, please keep reading. San Diego to San Francisco? The horizontal LED tail lights, are connected by a light strip that runs the full width of the rear. Impressive Efficiency. Impressive Luxury. Story by John Faulkner. Charlotte to Orlando?

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2024

Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. To this day, PCI slots are used to connect network cards, sound cards, disc controllers, and other peripherals to computer motherboards via a bus that carries data and control signals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

With the personal transportation ecosystem poised for disruption, its unclear if OBDs or smartphones will serve as the platform for technological innovation. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, CA, Zendrive is striving to make driving better, safer, and more efficient for everyone through improved data and analytics.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

PARC, now in its fifteenth year, originated or nurtured technologies that led to these developments, among others: The Macintosh computer, with its mouse and overlapping windows. Networks that link personal computers in offices. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Combining programs such as car2go and moovel into one company enables us to offer customers attractive and connected mobility services from a single source. The concept’s use of technology makes it possible to rent car2go vehicles on the spur of the moment and later park them at any location within the area served by the system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Audi unveiled its all-electric Audi e-tron mid-size SUV—its first fully electric production model—in an event in San Francisco. When coasting, the motors operate free from magnetic drag torque—another strength of ASM technology. The two electric motors accelerate the e-tron from 0-60 mph in 5.5

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Other tech benefits include a no-stretch carbon cord technology in place of the familiar chain we all grew up with. As a 2021 electronic device, the Bird Bike offers a backlit LCD dash display on the handlebars and Bluetooth and app connectivity. It lasts longer and is likely cleaner and easier to maintain. Waiting for Some Seat Time.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

New technologies often are introduced through spectacle: Think of the historic demonstrations carried out by Faraday, Edison, Morse, and Bell, or, more recently, by Steve Jobs onstage in his black turtleneck at Macworld 2007, holding the first iPhone. Users in large organizations—including the U.S.

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Cars That Think

MAY 19, 2024

Compared to a healthy user [top], a person experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder [middle] or depression [bottom] may use their phone more than usual and late at night. App developers are trying to avoid the pitfalls of previous smartphone-psychiatry startups, some of which oversold their capabilities before validating their technologies.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 16, 2022

Artemis’ technology, which they call pCells (short for “personal cells”), relies on radio waves' additive nature. Wireless devices, as part of their normal operation, send out regular updates called sounding reference signals (SRS) that enable a network to assess connection strength. GHz band was established by the U.S.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Interoperability—the ability of products from different manufacturers to work together—is one of the most fundamental enablers of our technological society. Oleg Logvinov, co-founder, President and CEO of charging technology startup IoTecha, was chosen as the new President of CharIN North America.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2022

In San Francisco on Feb. startled the world of high technology by presenting the first ever 1-million-transistor microprocessor, which was also the company’s first such chip to use a reduced instruction set. A later attempt was dropped when Intel decided not to invest in that particular process technology. were up to.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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