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Automotive industry develops new guidance for measuring recycled content of automotive products

Green Car Congress

The document is designed to outline a common industry-supported definition and straightforward approach for measuring recycled content of automotive products consistent with those approaches outlined in other standards. Simplified process flow. —Kellen Mahoney, Program Director, SP.

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Murata and Michelin co-develop embeddable RFID module for tires

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Designed and manufactured by Murata, the RFID module is approximately the size of a grain of rice, measuring 1x1x6 mm. By inserting it into a simple spring antenna designed and manufactured by HANA Technologies, the RFID tag achieves the simplest communication architecture, enabling it to link to the tire ecosystem.

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Daimler forms electrified coach project ELCH

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This will be recorded systematically for the first time in the project and serve as a reference dimension for the design of the drivetrains. The profitability of the resulting vehicle concepts will also be assessed from the operator’s perspective and taken into account in the concept definition.

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All-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre concludes winter testing 55km from Arctic Circle; Rolls-Royce 3.0

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We refer to this unprecedented era, where we benefit from a multi-control, multi-channel and highly interconnected electronic and electric powertrain architecture, as ‘Rolls-Royce 3.0’. is a reference to the brand’s progress during its renaissance, which began in Goodwood, West Sussex on 1 January 2003. Rolls-Royce 3.0. Rolls-Royce 3.0

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Sacramento partners with Deepen AI and Foresight AI on HD, 3D mapping initiative to support autonomous vehicles

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on a project designed to speed the development and safe deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology for the benefit of the city. The three-month effort is slated to begin in February 2019, and will focus on building high-definition, 3D maps for three demonstration routes within the city. and Foresight AI , Inc.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant. 39% assumed charging station refers to the site/location and 43.2%

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Tesla teases Cybertruck’s epic winter testing

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Its unique design has so often been referred to as “polarizing,” and while analysts are undecided on whether to call it “ugly” or a “cult” design , the over 1 million pre-orders for the truck have already indicated it will be one of Tesla’s biggest successes.

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