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Electrovaya to supply Li-ion systems to Chrysler for 25 minivan PHEVs in 2-year fleet demo project with DOE

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Components of the flex-fuel PHEV minivan. The 25 Chrysler minivans will join a fleet of 140 Ram 1500 PHEV pickup trucks ( earlier post ) that are being deployed to 12 partners including local municipalities, state governments, universities and energy companies across the United States. The minivan project. The minivan project.

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Tech: 2022 Toyota Connected: Autono-MaaS and Cabin Awareness Concept

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headquarters in Plano, Texas. At a 36-hour hackathon in October 2019, hundreds of engineers came up with a working prototype of the Cabin Awareness system. This system has been integrated into a Sienna Hybrid minivan for future testing under real world conditions. Tech: Biomimetic Engineering Is Evolving ADAS.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. Austin, Texas. He doesn’t yell or scream.

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Honda touts Ohio EV flexibility, could make hundreds per day

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Honda’s so-called EV hub, announced in 2022, encompasses four different Ohio facilities—Marysville, the East Liberty Plant, the Anna Engine Plant, and a joint-venture battery plant with LG Energy Solution. It also makes Honda hybrid systems and engines in Ohio.

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

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The autonomous-vehicle company is testing the technology in its fleet of Toyota Sienna AutonoMaaS (Autonomous Mobility as a Service) ( earlier post ) minivans at its headquarters in Michigan and will soon begin testing in public AV deployments in Arlington, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, with additional deployments coming in late 2022.

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