Remove Google Remove Personal Remove Wind
article thumbnail

These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

Cars That Think

Similarly, Snap , the company that owns Snapchat and Bitmoji, ranks above more frequent filers Qualcomm and Google , despite being granted just 770 patents last year. But it has two subsidiaries: Google and Waymo, both in the Telecom and Internet category. The majority of these companies, however, focus on manufacturing chips.

Companies 127
article thumbnail

Road Trip: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Sport Touring

Clean Fleet Report

It is obvious Honda spent a considerable amount of time with the Civic in wind tunnel testing. The Touring trim which we were in also has Alexa and Google built in. Personal note: I own a 1997 Honda Civic EX with 198,100 miles, which I bought new. Our Civic had body color-keyed bumpers, door handles and shark fin antenna.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

Cars That Think

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain. He then worked on Googles Street View and its initial self-driving cars.

Cars 137
article thumbnail

Lamborghini's First EV Might Be A Plug-In Hybrid Now

InsideEVs

Sign In Browse this and many other websites without banner ads, personalized tracking and video ads. And this week, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the Australian outlet CarExpert that the EV may actually wind up being a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) instead. Sign Up / login Logout from Contentpass

Plug-in 58
article thumbnail

Despite 2024 Layoffs, Tech Jobs Expected to Take Off

Cars That Think

The BLS also projects that demand for EEs in solar and wind electric power generation will grow substantially over the same time period, though they remain a small portion of overall employment. Many others, including Apple, Google, and Meta have taken a hybrid approach and require at least three days in the office each week.

Engine 113
article thumbnail

Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

Google 255
article thumbnail

X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). devices, personalized medicine, and physician augmentation/telemedicine. This prize and the resulting technology can help bring about an era of personalized medicine.

Water 231