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Welcome to Fusion City, USA

Cars That Think

But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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MIIT verifies Xpeng P7 EV range of 706 km (439 miles) NEDC

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) has verified Xpeng’s P7 electric sports sedan’s driving range to be NEDC 706 km (439 miles). The volume of the entire electric drive system is only 18.6L, and power density reaches the industry-leading 2 kW/kg level. Earlier post.). For the P7, every 0.01

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Fisker Intelligent Pilot ADAS features digital radar

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“Fisker Intelligent Pilot and Fisker Digital-Imaging combine reliable ADAS cameras with first-to-market 4D digital radars, giving owners industry-leading safety to go along with a $37,499 price for the Fisker Ocean Sport and over 350 miles of all-electric range for the top-of-the-line Fisker Ocean Extreme and Fisker Ocean One launch edition.

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Chinese Smartphone Company Previews First EV

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But we haven’t seen anything so obviously influenced by another car design since the second-generation Ford Fusion (fourth-gen Mondeo) came out wearing a face that clearly possessed some Aston Martin DNA. We know that the car is supposed to be contract-manufactured by Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co.

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

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mile urban and highway combined public route in Las Vegas for CES 2017. The partners said that CSLP is the first turnkey, fully integrated automated driving solution with an industry-leading perception system and computing platform. Earlier post.). Intel will provide the system-on-a-chip (SOC) for the systems.) Earlier post.).

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Ford, University of Michigan open $8M battery lab focused on test production of advanced technologies

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This is sorely needed, and no one else in the auto industry has anything like it. Ford and other potential industrial partners have both a defined short-term need as well as the longer term research need for energy storage materials and systems. —Ted Miller, Ford’s manager of battery research. —Ted Miller. Batteries'

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Cadillac to offer advanced V2V and semi-automated driving technologies in certain 2017 MY vehicles

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If we expect our industry to thrive well into the future, we have to provide solutions. Cadillac’s Super Cruise uses a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data. The Boss navigated 60 miles of mixed traffic, intersections and stop signs 20 minutes faster than the runner up. Click to enlarge.

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