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Honda and China-based SenseTime to jointly research and develop AI technologies for automated driving

Green Car Congress

Honda R&D Co., the R&D subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Under the joint research and development agreement, the two companies will combine SenseTime’s moving object recognition technologies with Honda’s AI algorithms for scene understanding, risk prediction and action planning.

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Honda opens Smart Home US in California; produces more energy than it consumes; direct DC-DC EV charging

Green Car Congress

The Honda Smart Home US integrates a number of technologies, and is managed by Honda’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS). Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6 Honda’s HEMS leverages the battery to balance, shift and buffer loads to minimize the home’s impact to the electric grid. Click to enlarge.

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Ford files a small SUV patent targeting emerging markets. Will it come to India?

Baua Electric

A previously filed patent image in India has provided a glimpse of the new car’s design, further reinforcing the notion that the automaker is gearing up to re-establish its footprint in India, following the cancellation of its plan to sell its Chennai plant in Tamil Nadu to the JSW Group. What’s in store for India?

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. In principle, this problem might have been solved with software to govern the charging and discharging.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us. But what did surprise this reporter was the absence of Honda, Toyota, BYD, and a lot of the other players listed on the Plug-In America car tracker. May I charge your EV sir?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we See Chevy Volt for latest.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours.

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