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Volvo Cars brings Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to the US

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Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Waycare has plans to expand to other areas in the future. From 2020, all new Volvo cars are speed-limited at 112 mph.

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Michigan State University introduces electric autonomous bus through collaboration with state, Karsan and ADASTEC

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During testing, the bus will be traveling at 15 mph; this will increase to 25 mph once fully deployed in 2022. To make this non-stop route possible, all traffic lights along the route will be controlled through intelligent roadside units and will actively communicate with the bus to improve its safety. The bus’s 2.5-mile

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Audi at CeBIT in Hanover with new A3 to highlight Audi connect; future role of Car-to-X communication

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There, under the “Audi connect” banner, it is presenting current and future solutions for mobile IT applications at the world’s biggest trade fair for information technology. If they are networked with traffic lights, such vehicles can accurately anticipate green lights for uninterrupted cruising.

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Audi presents plug-in hybrid TT offroad concept car at Beijing; wireless charging

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The show car accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 5.2 seconds and reaches an electronically governed top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph). The Audi TT offroad concept provides a glimpse of how we might imagine a new model in the future TT family. ft) of system torque. Fuel consumption is 1.9 liters per 100 kilometers (123.8

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Gov’t, industry, national labs collaborate on comprehensive cradle-to-grave LCA study and economic assessment of LDV GHG reductions

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The ranges of the levelized cost of driving (LCD) and cost of avoided carbon are narrower for the future technology pathways, reflecting the expected economic competitiveness of these alternative vehicles and fuels. time to accelerate from 0–60 mph, maximum speed), thus eliminating important confounding factors. —Elgowainy et al.

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Toyota introduces second-generation Mirai fuel cell electric vehicle as design and technology flagship

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The new Mirai is one part of an electrification strategy that also includes Toyota’s current and future hybrids and upcoming battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The Mirai provides excellent everyday driving performance, for example accelerating from 25 mph to 45 mph in 2.8 Additional TSS 2.5+

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BMW previews future driver assistance and connected vehicle developments at CES, including more automated driving

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BMW selected the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas as a venue at which to preview future developments and new applications of connected vehicle technology for series-produced vehicles. These devices are worn like wristwatches and display information from a linked smartphone directly onto the user’s wrist.

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