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Green Car Congress
MARCH 28, 2013
Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2016
General Motors is acquiring three-year-old start-up Cruise Automation to add Cruise’s deep software talent and rapid development capability to further accelerate GM’s development of autonomous vehicle technology. The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 6, 2012
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. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp.
Baua Electric
JUNE 13, 2024
I recently had the chance to attend Micromobility Europe 2024 , the latest industry tradeshow promoting the proliferation of right-sized personal electric vehicles. The show will move to a new location this November, from San Francisco to Los Angeles this year, so make sure you stick around to hear what we find at the show this year.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2015
We are working to make these new technologies accessible to everyone, not just luxury customers. The new technology relies on more natural speech patterns rather than a restricted set of commands to perform in-car tasks such as hands-free phone dialing or requesting navigation. —Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company president and CEO.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2016
These four main kits are now joined by the all-new Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten (“Modular Electric Drive kit”, or MEB), being developed by the Volkswagen brand. Since January 2016, the MEB has been under the direction of Christian Senger, who was previously in charge of Automotive Systems and Technology at Continental AG.
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
PARC, now in its fifteenth year, originated or nurtured technologies that led to these developments, among others: The Macintosh computer, with its mouse and overlapping windows. Networks that link personal computers in offices. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Laser printers.
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