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EPA proposes stringent new emissions standards for light-, medium-, heavy-duty vehicles for MY 2027 and beyond

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two new proposed federal emissions standards spanning light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for model year 2027 and beyond. The light-duty vehicle category includes passenger cars and light trucks consistent with previous EPA criteria pollutant and GHG rules.

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JRC publishes recommendation for the collection and recycling of light-EV batteries

Green Car Congress

A study recently published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Center assesses how best to identify at the European level an additional fifth category of batteries—those used for Light Means of Transport (LMT) such as e-bikes and similar new products—which would ensure their appropriate collection and recycling.

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fka leading new consortium on LiDAR specification and testing

Green Car Congress

LiDAR technology (Light Detection and Ranging) offers high potential for machine perception in automated driving and currently available comfort- and safety features due to its precise distance sensing and three-dimensional point cloud image generation. All of these sensors are referred to as “LiDAR”.

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Radar to Lidar: How self-driving cars see roads

Baua Electric

Read more Autonomous driving vehicles use a set of technologies including radar, lidar sensors, and high-definition cameras to ensure a driving behaviour that is safe and doesn’t require human interference. CASE refers to technologies like connected vehicles, autonomous driving technology, shared mobility and electric mobility.

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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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2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 SUV 4Matic Review – Suburban Comfort

The Truth About Cars

One of the more derisive ones I’ve heard over the years is a pejorative reference to mid-size luxury crossovers as “parent mobiles.” The ride is definitely luxury-crossover smooth. It’s not uncommon for vehicles to get slapped with labels based on stereotypes. Perhaps, though, this stereotype doesn’t need to be so negative.

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At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer into Your Brain

Cars That Think

Superconductor-based cameras that can detect a single photon—the smallest smidgeon of light—have existed for 20 years, but they’ve remained confined to laboratories due to the inability to scale them past a few pixels. For shining light into human tissue, near-infrared frequencies are ideal. Then ‘I got the 40,000-pixel one.’

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