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This small curbside EV charger can deliver 200 miles of range in 13 minutes

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Photo: Gravity Google-backed Gravity’s new curbside DC fast charger is no bigger than a Level 2 charger, but it’s 30 times faster. Gravity says its lightning-fast curbside EV chargers can deliver 200 miles of range in 13 minutes, don’t need utility upgrades or street reconstruction, and can be deployed en masse. Get started here. –

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Google to sponsor NASA Green Flight Challenge

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The CAFE Foundation announced that Google will sponsor the NASA Centennial Challenge flight competition known as the Green Flight Challenge (GFC). Competing aircraft must demonstrate at least 100 mph and 200 passenger mpg on a 200-mile flight. Schulz Sonoma County (California) Airport.

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Google focusing autonomous driving development on mastering city street driving; patents piling up

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Over the past year, Google has shifted the focus of its autonomous vehicle project onto mastering city street driving, according to Chris Urmson, Director, Google Self-Driving Car Project. Google says that its autonomous vehicles have logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles (1.13 —Chris Urmson. Title and description.

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Toyota Research Institute CEO Pratt outlines initial AI/robotics mandates; trillion-mile reliability

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Home robots may be even more personally prized in our future than cars have been in our past. Up to now, our industry has measured on-road reliability of autonomous vehicles, in the millions of miles, which is impressive. James Kuffner, CMU Professor and former head of Google Robotics – Cloud Computing. John Leonard, Samuel C.

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Green Flight Challenge to award total purse of $1.65M, funded by NASA

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From September 25 through October 1, electric and hybrid-powered aircraft teams will compete for the “ Green Flight Challenge (GFC) sponsored by Google ” at the Charles M. These will range from vertical takeoff personal aircraft, autonomous vehicles, fast prototyping equipment, advanced motors, propellers and more.

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New Ford smartwatch apps allow EV owners to check status from their wrist

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Last trip summary includes personal driving score, percentage of electric vehicle miles. The last trip feature lets drivers monitor their driving score—showing miles per gallon or miles per gallon equivalent, trip miles, and braking and driving efficiency. Vehicle mileage summary.

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Tesla’s FSD suite is impressive, but Aurora CEO says, ‘We were doing better in 2010’

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Urmson also was the head of Google’s self-driving project for almost eight years before leaving in 2016, but his work required him to build the code that powered Google’s autonomous software. This improves the performance of the suite with every mile driven. An autonomous Tesla Model 3 in action. Credit: Tesla).

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