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Toyota, JapanTaxi, KDDI and Accenture to pilot AI-based taxi dispatch support system

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Toyota Motor Corporation and JapanTaxi Co., jointly with KDDI Corporation and Accenture, have developed a taxi dispatch support system that predicts demand for taxi services, combining data from taxi service logs with predictions of demographics made by location-based big data from smartphones as well as event information.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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Stage 1 Ventures led the first tranche of $34 million with participation from Air Waves Wireless Electricity and a strategic investment by Mitsubishi Corporation through its US subsidiary, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas). WiTricity’s technology enables a hands-free and efficient charging experience for EV drivers.

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Wisk unveils autonomous four-seat eVTOL air taxi; Generation 6

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Wisk Aero, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company, revealed the first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Wisk’s 6 th Generation aircraft leverages key learnings and insights from its previous five generations of eVTOL aircraft to deliver a new level of performance.

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The Kiwi business journey to Carbon Zero

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This 5-step guide contains insights from FleetPartners for fleet managers and business owners looking to transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to hybrid and electric alternatives, whether you have 1, 20 or 500 vehicles. BEVs currently have a more expensive purchase price than internal combustion engine equivalents.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Examples of advanced powertrains are turbo charged gas engines, diesel and hybrid. 8.6 / 10.6. 6.6 / 8.2. ?6.7

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ITF report finds self-driving shared vehicles could take up to 90% of cars off city streets; total kilometers travelled increases

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The additional travel could increase environmental impacts, if the fleets used conventional engines. From the results, the ITF researchers posited a number of policy insights: Self-driving vehicles could change public transport as we currently know it. Public transport, taxi operations and urban transport governance will have to adapt.

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EV's and Indian Manufacturing: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwaala | Visit to IIT Madras

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Tesla has done a lot of engineering work in the cylindrical cells area, but it is unlikely that others are going to follow suit. In order to quantify a collaboration metric, corporate research labs have to earn 150 credit points for every 1000 sq ft of space that they occupy. This is in part to incentivise collaboration with academia.