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Daimler, Tsinghua University deepen joint research cooperation on sustainable transportation; automated driving and intelligent mobility

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Daimler and Chinese partner Tsinghua University signed an agreement further to deepen their research cooperation in the fields of automated driving and intelligent mobility. Through the Tsinghua Daimler Joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation, the cooperation has been extended for an additional three years.

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Univ. of Michigan receives grant from Alcoa Foundation for sustainable transportation research in Detroit, Beijing

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The University of Michigan will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support U-M’s Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation ( SMART ) project. The grant will be used to develop and apply practical solutions to the challenges of sustainable transportation in the Detroit and Beijing regions.

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President’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9B for DOE; 9% boost over FY 2015 enacted; $793M (2.7%) for sustainable transportation

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billion for Science, $272 million above the FY 2015 Enacted level, to continue to lead basic research in the physical sciences and develop and operate cutting-edge scientific user facilities while strengthening the connection between advances in fundamental science and technology innovation. Sustainable transportation.

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BMW providing 10 pre-owned i3 EVs to UC Davis for 18 months

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This is one slice of conditioning the market, users and institutions like this university to think along those lines. Sperling wrote a book— Three Revolutions —describing a three-pronged approach to sustainable transportation that involves integrating electrification, ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles.

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Enterprise CarShare expands to Salt Lake City

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Enterprise CarShare, a service offered through the Enterprise Rent-A-Car local network, launched in Salt Lake City with vehicles at nearly 30 locations throughout the downtown area and on local university campuses. Salt Lake becomes the seventh major retail market to offer Enterprise CarShare in the past two years.

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Ford, Uber and Lyft to share data through SharedStreets platform

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Launched earlier this year with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, SharedStreets is a universal data language for sharing information about city streets and a launching pad for public-private collaboration to manage streets, reduce traffic deaths, and prepare cities for the unprecedented technological advancement emerging in cities.

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Ford unveils Fusion Hybrid research vehicle for autonomous driving

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Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. State Farm and the University of Michigan’s robotics and automation research team are critical to Ford research project.

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