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StoreDot closes in on U.S. market entry with launch of R&D campus in California

Teslarati

StoreDot said that the new 5,800-square-foot R&D campus has several advantages, mostly having to do with its strategic location in the middle of several prestigious colleges and universities that will offer top-tier engineering talent upon graduation. Please email me with questions and comments at joey@teslarati.com. I’d love to chat!

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Ford targeting highly autonomous vehicle for ride-sharing in 2021; new tech company investments, staffing up in Silicon Valley

Green Car Congress

Ford was the first automaker to begin testing its vehicles at Mcity, University of Michigan’s simulated urban environment, the first automaker to publicly demonstrate autonomous vehicle operation in the snow and the first automaker to test its autonomous research vehicles at night, in complete darkness, as part of LiDAR sensor development.

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European consortium investigating graphene-based materials for lightweight cars; energy-efficient and safe vehicles

Green Car Congress

The University of Sunderland (UK), working with a consortium of five other research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, has been selected for funding by the €1-billion (US$1.4-billion) Italy); and Delta-Tech S.p.A. Source: University of Sunderland. Click to enlarge.

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Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT

CN EV Post

DriveGPT has been opened to a limited number of partners, and the first batch includes Beijing Jiaotong University School of Computer and Information Technology, Qualcomm, Volcano Engine, Huawei Cloud, JD Technology, NavInfo, WEY Brand, and Intel. What is DriveGPT?

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

Green Car Congress

Supporters of the group, in addition to Audi, include numerous research institutions and high‑tech companies including NVIDIA, Technical University of Berlin, the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The Google Lunar XPRIZE, which started off with more than 25 teams, is currently in its final round.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

Cars That Think

Two of the most interesting innovators in this field are the Israel-based startup. James Giordano , chief of neuroethics studies at Georgetown University Medical Center. In an office in Herzliya, Israel, Sergey Vaisman sits in front of a computer. InnerEye , an Israel-based startup that recently came out of stealth mode.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

In most cases we need to ask permission to share our customers’ names, but I can mention one company: The Paz Group , one of the biggest, if not the biggest oil and gas company in Israel. Orlin Radev: Well, our aim is to build a product that can be universally applicable. They’re called Wattif. Do you work in the US as well?