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APRIL 11, 2018

IEEE signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American Center for Mobility (ACM) ( earlier post ), a global center for testing and validation, product development, education and standards work for connected and autonomous vehicles and other technologies. —John Maddox, American Center for Mobility President & CEO.

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JULY 7, 2015

The Ricardo-led FlySafe research collaboration—involving a range of leading industrial and academic partners including the University of Brighton’s Centre for Automotive Engineering—has delivered an innovative flywheel safety test environment to enable the development of next-generation flywheel energy storage systems.

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JULY 9, 2014

The Connected Vehicle Test Environment (CVTE) was developed as a real-world model deployment test site for enabling wireless communications among vehicles and with roadside equipment for use in generating data to enable driver safety warning systems. Work areas covered under the agreement include: Operate and maintain test environment.

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JULY 19, 2023

In partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), researchers from the University of Missouri (MU) Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab ( MAPIL ) recently created a real-world test road using recycled materials such as scrap tires and plastic waste along a portion of Interstate 155 in the Missouri Bootheel.

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MAY 7, 2015

Johnson Controls is partnering with Lawrence Technological University (LTU) to test and to develop advanced battery systems in vehicles aimed at helping automakers meet increasing fuel economy and emissions standards. —MaryAnn Wright, vice president of engineering and product development for Johnson Controls Power Solutions.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Level 4 buses operate in pre-determined environments and still have drivers, steering wheels, and pedals. The Automated Bus Consortium , a collective of US transit agencies and departments of transportation, released a request for proposals (RFP) to procure up to seventy full-size Level 4 automated buses.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2012

The principles reflect the positions of the FHWA (Federal Highway Administration), NHTSA, and RITA at this time of adoption related to research, demonstration and implementation of a connected vehicle environment. Transportation Safety is the DOT’s top stated priority for the connected vehicle environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. More than 7.5 How do we reuse energy?

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MAY 2, 2022

Accompanying the lower noise levels from bus traffic was a reduction of fatigue, day time sleepiness and low mood, a study at the University of Gothenburg shows. Previous noise-level measurements had indicated that disturbance from low-frequency noise in indoor environments was present in the residential area.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2024

In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems , we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. The standard can give government agencies a method to ensure transparency from AI vendors about associated risks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2018

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a major component of fine particulate matter—which causes adverse health effects—even in urban environments; vehicles may be a dominant source of SOA in urban areas, although there is still an ongoing debate over SOA formation from on-road sources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

is introducing the industry’s first embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) solution for use in next-generation automotive applications. standard, for the first time in the industry. Samsung Electronics Co., —,Jinman Han, senior vice president of Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering at Samsung Electronics.

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JULY 13, 2019

Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB), with colleagues in the US and China, have provided pathophysiologic evidence of the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular disease in China. Their findings also suggests that China may need to revise its standard for one type of pollutant. —first author, Meng Wang.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Solvents and other chemicals do not come into contact with the environment during this process. Lithium water study in cooperation with University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Working towards strict IRMA standard for lithium mining.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

These results support that a combination of continuous adoption of stringent emission standards and strong improvements in vehicle technology are necessary, as well as rewarding, to meet the sustainable freight and community health goals. The NS case provides substantial additional benefits (~20%). Source: Pan et al. 2019.104922.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2023

The collaboration with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), the University of Nottingham and Clean Air Power will initially target search and rescue vessels. Hybrid Marine Power will act as a consultant, providing legislative impact analysis alongside their experience of marine safety standards and the wider industry.

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JULY 23, 2023

In the anti-interference test, the general standard in the industry requires 30 V/m, while the electric field intensity in BMW EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) lab could reach 100V/m on average and up to 140 V/m in extreme test conditions. China is also home to BMW’s largest testing and validation footprint outside of Germany.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) are developing a small-scale demonstration reactor that will process 40 tons of wood waste per year from the university into replacements for diesel fuel and gasoline. This will be offered at the university pump in a 10:90 mixture with gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The multi-module localization system (radar, vision and laser) allows customers to deploy autonomy in both on-road and off-road locations, whether in mines, ports or airports and whatever the weather conditions where standard GPS or lidar is not possible.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. The concept of harmonizing specific aspects of the LCFS program with other low carbon fuel standard programs has been of interest for the staff since the inception of the program. —Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 20, 2018

Stakeholders including the state government, universities, and the sugarcane association (the Sugarcane Industry Union: UNICA) attended the event. Toyota’s initial studies suggest that a Hybrid FFV has an advantage in environmental performance compared to a standard FFV on a well-to-wheels basis.

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JUNE 30, 2015

Twenty-one years later, the ARC, which operates as a consortium of six universities [ 2 ] collaborating with partners from both industrial and government sectors, gathered once again on the University of Michigan’s North Campus for its 21 st Annual Program Review. Footnotes. [ 1 ] Gilbert, D., Automotive Research Center.”

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Despite the rapid adoption of electric vehicles, there has been little discussion about standardizing battery types. The question of whether governments should mandate increased battery standards is not new. So let us weigh some facts on the battery standardization movement. Standardization: Being Nice To the Environment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2019

Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. —Professor Gurney.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image Credit: Gordon Humphries, University of Strathclyde. The approach provides real-time spatially resolved information for carbon dioxide emissions from a large-scale commercial engine, said research team leader Michael Lengden from the University of Strathclyde in the UK. Image Credit: Abhishek Upadhyay, University of Strathclyde.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Proterra manufactures high-performance battery systems that have industry-leading energy density for maximum range, a flexible design to fit within a wide variety of vehicles, and a ruggedized commercial grade housing to withstand harsh environments.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

—Alexander Bergmann, head of the Institute of Electronic Sensor Systems at Graz University of Technology. Entry permits into environmental zones could also be monitored automatically, in which automatic barriers only open if the pollutant emissions of the approaching car are within the standard range. University Of Leeds (GB).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Western Michigan University (WMU) have enabled standard raised pavement markers to transmit GPS information that helps autonomous driving features function better in remote areas or in bad weather. —Sharma et al.

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MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles will be put into standard taxi service by the Nihon Kotsu taxi company. Partnership with University of Melbourne. The company’s first demonstration electric vehicle is housed at the University of Melbourne and will be used to evaluate the new technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Long-term residential exposure to locally emitted black carbon (BC) from traffic exhaust increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. g/m 3 , considerably lower than current European Union standard of 25 ?g/m

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Devised by LKAB , the Sustainable Underground Mining (SUM) project has the goal of setting a new world standard for sustainable mining at great depths in partnership with ABB, Combitech, Epiroc and Sandvik. LKAB’s core business is the mining and processing of iron ore for the steel industry. Background.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper is published in the journal Environment International. Due to stringent flammability standards in vehicles and the ability of OPEs to migrate out of end-use products, elevated concentrations of OPEs have been found in car dust samples around the world. Aalekhya Reddam, George Tait, Nicholas Herkert, Stephanie C.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The overarching aim of the Current Direct project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative interchangeable waterborne transport battery system and Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) Platform in an operational environment at the Port of Rotterdam at TRL7 that facilitates fast charging of vessels, fleet optimization and novel business models.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Accordingly, reducing obesity may have considerable benefits for both public health and the environment. To assess the impact of obesity on the environment, researchers used the standard definitions of obesity (body mass index of greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2 ) and normal weight (body mass index of less than 25).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

The IsoC, a six-by-three-by-three-foot, two-chambered glass and steel enclosure, allows chemists to work in a controlled, inert and moisture-free environment. All of our exposure testing must be performed inside the IsoC in an oxygen-free, moisture-free environment.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. This study, done in collaboration between NTU and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, showed that a 0.1 —First author Associate Professor Steve Yim, from NTU’s Asian School of the Environment, who holds an appointment at LKCMedicine.

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