Remove 2002 Remove Chinese Remove Universal
article thumbnail

BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

Green Car Congress

Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. There are now 3,200 R&D associates in China using their expertise to develop products for Chinese customers.

BMW 370
article thumbnail

10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

Green Car Congress

Repeated scans were done for nearly all participants between 2002 and 2005; for a subset of participants between 2005 and 2007; and for half of all participants between 2010 and 2012. Of the people in the study, 39% were white, 27% black, 22% Hispanic, and 12% Chinese.

Pollution 199
article thumbnail

SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

Green Car Congress

But the ironic piece is that the [Chinese] companies that are trying to reinvent transportation have the least experience at developing the automobile. If you choose a path to electrification, you want to choose a path that gives advantage to Chinese industries. China wants to lead a revolution in transportation, not follow.

article thumbnail

Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

Green Car Congress

Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. The research project was undertaken by researchers working at Euromed Management School Marseille, Queen’s University Belfast and IZT—Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin.

article thumbnail

Volkswagen Group reorganizes North American operations; Prof. Dr. Winfried Vahland new region CEO

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen said that the creation of NAR is a further measure in the process of decentralizing managerial responsibility, and creates another pillar in the global structure of the group, in addition to the European and Chinese regions. He joined Audi AG in 1990 and Volkswagen AG in 1993.

2002 150
article thumbnail

A Non-Engineer’s Journey to IEEE Leadership

Cars That Think

Her husband is a computer science professor at the University of Technology, Jamaica , in Kingston. Brown also was integral in the promotion and follow-up activities for the One IEEE event held in January at the University of Technology, Jamaica. The school hired her in 2002 as an accountant, and she worked there for five years.

Jamaica 115
article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

Singapore 145