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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

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It’s initially rolling out in five states – California, Florida, Michigan, New York, and Texas – with plans to expand over time. It consists of the GM Energy Powershift Charger at $1,699, and GM Energy V2H Enablement Kit at $5,600. Customers can purchase GM Energy’s V2H bundle through current GM mobile brand apps. Get started here. –

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

Cars That Think

Michigan Robotics ] The RPD 35 from Built Robotics is the world’s first autonomous piling system. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. ARL ] Thanks, Kostas! FZI ] Satisfying.

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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future.

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Ford OpenXC platform out of beta; open-source hardware and software platform

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The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. Early in 2012 Ford shipped the first OpenXC beta toolkits to universities such as the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford University and HCL Technologies in India.

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Ford takes OpenXC research platform global, engaging local developers for market-specific connected vehicle apps in India

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Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. At NASSCOM, Ford is demonstrating an app created by HCL that would allow a driver to provide selected personal contacts with an automatic location update during that driver’s travels.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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The 25 experiments address four global megatrends—explosive population growth; an expanding middle class; air quality and public health concerns; and changing customer attitudes and priorities—challenging today’s transportation model and limiting personal mobility, especially in urban areas. Data Driven Insurance, London.

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

Green Car Congress

A person sitting in the Palo Alto laboratory can access real-time video streamed over existing 4G/LTE technology to drive golf carts thousands of miles away. In addition, Palo Alto-based engineers are expanding their research to develop sensor kits to gather information from bicycles and other common forms of transportation in urban areas.

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