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Nissan e-4orce demo: Why electric-car AWD benefits more than performance and traction

Green Car Reports

All-wheel drive is known for a few straightforward advantages in internal-combustion vehicles: It improves straight-line traction and can boost cornering stability. As Nissan demonstrated to Green Car Reports this past week with a series of dynamic demos at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, by.

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The Boring Company’s LVCC Loop demo runs are seeds of an upcoming disruption

Teslarati

The first rides of The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop have been shared online. One such video shared by Las Vegas-based @themelissavegas showed a demo run in a Tesla Model Y. What is quite noticeable in the LVCC demos is that the transport tunnels have so much space to improve.

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Renesas to demo full autonomous vehicles with R-Car H3 SoCs at CES 2017

Green Car Congress

Renesas will showcase its own fully autonomous vehicle prototypes—featuring the R-Car H3 SoC ( earlier post )—at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Renesas will offer short rides in the autonomous vehicles at a short track adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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Delphi & Mobileye to showcase Centralized Sensing Localization and Planning (CSLP) autonomous driving system in public demo at CES 2017

Green Car Congress

mile urban and highway combined public route in Las Vegas for CES 2017. The Las Vegas drive will tackle everyday driving challenges such as highway merges, congested city streets with pedestrians and cyclists and a tunnel. 3D vehicle detection: Detects vehicles at any angle. Earlier post.).

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FEV, Lightspeed Technologies to demo fiber optic-based optical and electronic architecture for automotive applications

Green Car Congress

This will significantly reduce weight, the number of vehicle parts, and assembly costs, while improving system efficiencies. Lightspeed has created an all fiber optic, zero software system for vehicles that replaces copper wiring and other heavy components, while increasing the integration level.

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Formula E Electric Racing Takes To Las Vegas For Demo Run

Green Car Reports

From September this year, the series will head to ten cities around the globe and prove that electric vehicles really can be exciting--and that reducing emissions can still mean raising.'

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Continental to demonstrate dynamic eHorizon technology during CES; Connected Energy Management and Blind Curve Warning

Green Car Congress

Continental will demonstrate its latest generation of eHorizon technology during CES next month in Las Vegas. Both demonstrations will be conducted on public roads in Las Vegas. The result: cleaner and safer vehicles thanks to Internet technology. 48 Volt EcoDrive with Connected Energy Management.

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