Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

ARPA-E is making approximately $10 million in funding available for a new program, TRANSNET (Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation), designed to optimize energy efficiency in multi-modal, urban transportation networks (e.g. personal vehicles, buses, light rail, etc.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2019

The concept has been designed to make urban driving easy, fun and safe, while exploring how Kia could make the final mile of any journey possible with a personal mobility device. Kia will have specially-designed experiential modules installed at its CES booth to demonstrate the potential of the READ System.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

The medium duty electric truck leverages Vicinity’s EV experience in a popular cab-over design, making it well-suited for urban environments and construction or delivery applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2018

With autonomous, electric and connected cars, we are entering a new exciting era in automotive design. —Laurens van den Acker, SVP Corporate Design. The EZ-ULTIMO concept opens-up new arenas for Renault design.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2020

AutoX was chosen for its software-hardware integrated approach, safety and scalability, and ability to navigate in dense urban environments. We realized that, to be able to really benefit from autonomous technology, we had to design a vehicle that would not only be an enabler for shared vehicles, but also for shared rides.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Personal mobility is set to experience significant change. With this in mind, we have designed the all-electric BMW Vision iNEXT as a mobile environment that enhances quality of life, a new “Favorite Space” in which we can be ourselves and relax.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Model E , jointly developed by Hon Hai and Italian design firm Pininfarina, is a technologically innovative luxury flagship sedan that can meet the needs of middle and high-end consumers. Its high rigid body design and protection meets the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations and standards.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We will also continue to create smart services that detect dangers at industrial sites and help support a safe work environment through continuous collaborations with Boston Dynamics. —Dong Jin Hyun, Head of Hyundai Motor Group Robotics Lab.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Siemens unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging concept structure designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging applications at scale. The busway power distribution equipment is manufactured at Siemens’ 540-person manufacturing hub in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We support a health-conscious lifestyle by enabling smart devices that can help improve well-being and stay healthy longer by making them reliable, convenient, personalized — and secure. That’s our contribution to a functioning healthcare system facing a rising global population and aging. UN DESA/POP/2022/TR/NO.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Customers will have the option to visit a Studio in person, make their inquiries entirely online, or any combination of the two. Within the site, a configurator will enable prospective owners to customize their own car and view it from any angle in a variety of environments. Lucid Digital Experience. Lucid Service.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2021

When humans drive, we’re constantly scanning the environment around us. For example, if a pedestrian looks both ways at an intersection, drivers understand that that person intends to cross the street. The new capability can be used by AV perception teams to predict the actions of pedestrians quickly and accurately.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

FCA US designed a specific marketing campaign to market these vehicles to US customers as “clean EcoDiesel” vehicles with best-in-class fuel efficiency. Gleason of the Environment and Natural Resources Division’s Environmental Crimes Section are prosecuting the case. Neal and Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Wyse of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. High-efficiency HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) and Lighting System designed by UC Davis.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2025

Founder Scott LaValley describes Cartwheels robot as a small, friendly humanoid robot designed to bring joy, warmth, and a bit of everyday magic into the spaces we live in. This rendering shows the design and scale of Cartwheels humanoid prototype. They lack personality. Want to be friends with them? Not likely. Theyre soulless.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2025

Throughout the course of the past year, LEVA has been designed from the ground up as a novel robot to transport payloads. Although the use of robotics is widespread in logistics, few solutions offer the capability to efficiently transport payloads both in controlled and unstructured environments. CMU RI ]

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The MobED has an innovative design arrangement. This suspension allows the platform to move through complex urban environments by freely adjusting its wheelbase and steering angles. Designed for full versatility and modularity, the MobED can be utilized for various applications, depending on the mounted device.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2023

2024 Audi Q8 e-tron (European Model) The Q8 e-tron receives a more aerodynamic wheel lineup, along with new treatments to the front and rear fascia as part of distinguishing new design elements which serve both aesthetic and functional purposes. The Q8 e-tron delivers quicker acceleration with sprints to 60 mph in as little as 5.3

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MARCH 13, 2025

Design, security, compliance, data visualization, marketing, finance? 10x engineer makes it sound like productivity is an immutable characteristic of a person. If you have services or software components that are owned by a single engineer, that person is a single point of failure. Which version, libraries, and frameworks?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

Supernal partnered with the Group’s design studios to create the cabin concept as the company works to certify its eVTOL vehicle for commercial use in the United States starting in 2028 and in the EU and UK shortly after. Ergonomically contoured seats offer a cocoon-like environment for passengers. —Jaiwon Shin.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Ford, with design and testing consultation from 3M, has developed a new powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). Ford will start producing an all-new PAPR design to help protect health care professionals on the front lines fighting COVID-19. Production of this PAPR starts today at Ford’s Vreeland facility near Flat Rock, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

Designed to pioneer the future of automated customer services, the DAL-e is equipped with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology for facial recognition as well as an automatic communication system based on a language-comprehension platform. The DAL-e is an acronym for “Drive you, Assist you, Link with you-experience.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Each CELESTIQ will be personally commissioned—no two will be alike. Clients will work directly with their selected dealer and Cadillac designers to realize their unique vision for the car, with unprecedented levels of personalization tailored to reflect the owner’s tastes. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The details of that specific situation may result in an electric vehicle parc somewhat different than in Western countries, other speakers noted, and may indeed—given the obvious scale of the China market—herald a major transformation in transportation, including the type and role of personal vehicles, others suggested.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The funding is from California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy and improving public health and the environment—particularly in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In response to changes in customer needs and the business environment, Nissan has revised its plan to accelerate electrification further. To address rapid market changes in China, in 2024 Nissan plans to launch an EV designed specifically for the market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Bio-Hybrid GmbH , a company belonging to the Schaeffler Group, will present the near-production Bio-Hybrid ( earlier post )—a new, modern form of personal urban mobility and means of transportation—at CES 2019. In addition to the drive system, the operating concept and the design were completely revised for this purpose.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The collaboration brings embedded 5G Ultra Wideband connectivity into Audi vehicles and provides the speed and telecommunication architecture necessary for highly personalized and augmented mobile services, new driver-assistance features, and connectivity-enabled innovations for the automated future of driving.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We stick to our step-by-step plan of transitioning the fleet towards zero-emission transport and we keep investing in comfortable and quiet electric buses which, thanks to low CO2 emission levels, are locally neutral for the environment. —Anja Wenmakers, the Managing Director of SWB Bus und Bahn.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2025

Some professional organizations, including the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association , have even cautioned against teaching nonspeaking autistic people communication methods that involve assistance from another person. We knew we wanted to design a typing system that would allow users to convey anything they wanted.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2025

But Angus, a jet-setting fashion designer , isnt the type to take such news lyingor sittingdown. The company will begin clinical trials of its XoMotion exoskeleton in late April, initially testing a version intended for rehab facilities as a stepping stone toward a personal-use exoskeleton that people like Angus can bring home.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2025

From AI-powered systems to hand-stitched interiors, these vehicles seamlessly fuse futuristic convenience with classic design. Futuristic Interiors Without Losing Heritage One of the most striking areas where technology and tradition intersect is in the interior design of luxury vehicles. Take the example of Aston Martin or BMW.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That’s the promise of MobiPrint , a new 3D printing robot that can move around a room, printing designs directly onto the floor. MobiPrint, designed by Daniel Campos Zamora at the University of Washington, consists of a modified off-the-shelf 3D printer atop a home vacuum robot. The robot then traverses the room and prints the design.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

Vilfredo Pareto was a nineteenth century Italian economist, who described a system being Pareto efficient when is not possible to change the allocation of goods without harming at least one person. In absolute terms, the increased tire wear from the Tesla over the Kia was 11 mg/km—2.4

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

In 1999 he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a balloon, called Breitling Orbiter 3. Besides being the first person to see the curvature of the Earth, Auguste was the inspiration for the Professor Cuthbert Calculus character in The Adventures of Tintin series of comic novels. So that was a fantastic example.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles (HI:DAV). The studies will progress from the simulator to the test-track, as interaction and interface designs evolve with testing. As the research progresses revised designs will be taken into road-going vehicles for the final set of tests.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2018

Family is Volkswagen’s range of newly-developed electric vehicles with long driving ranges and visionary design that will come to market in quick succession. A virtual ‘host’ knows the personal preferences of the vehicle guests and it adapts to each of them individually. Family and will reach roads by 2022 at the latest. BUZZ microbus.

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