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JUNE 29, 2020

Credit: Princeton University. The system, easily integrated into today’s vehicles, uses Doppler radar to bounce radio waves off surfaces such as buildings and parked automobiles. —Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Image courtesy of the researchers.

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JUNE 17, 2018

NEDO set a target date of fiscal 2022 for the core technologies; prior NEDO work in solid-state battery research primarily engaged materials makers.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Leading global automotive supplier Delphi and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust ( SnT ) of the University of Luxembourg have signed a four-year agreement to cooperate on a joint research program involving electronic control systems for automotive applications.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

According to Prieto, the electrodeposition manufacturing method is fast and inexpensive, allowing the technology to be scaled up to create batteries that can be used for everything from pacemakers to automobiles. Prieto Battery is the first startup produced by Cenergy.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee. Fiscal year 2012 awards include: University of Arizona, $36,000. Arizona State University, $350,000. University of Georgia, $345,689. University of Florida, $496,996. University of Florida, $497,851.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

and Suzhou Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, in which the two parties have agreed to promote a cooperative effort regarding the research of future automotive technology. Dispatch of visiting researchers from Nissan to Suzhou Automobile Research Institute.

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MAY 24, 2022

The Ohio State University finished in second place and University of Alabama came in third. More than 27,000 students from 93 unique educational institutions have participated to date, seeding the industry with engineers who have helped redefine the automobile for more than three decades.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fiber plastic compounds together with the National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College and Tokyo University of Science.

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JULY 6, 2020

The cars all follow the same route: a 6-kilometer loop from the Shanghai Automobile Exhibition Center to a nearby hotel. —Yang Ming, an autonomous vehicle expert at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The goal of robotaxis is to eliminate the need for human drivers, which is how we can cut costs and make profits.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The car will also take part in the 20 th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013 in October and demonstrate a safety system that will see streetcars and automobiles communicating with each on the streets of Hiroshima. The new safety system enables communication between streetcars and automobiles equipped with an autonomous sensor.

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APRIL 20, 2023

These will now be used by Chery Automobile, as announced at the exhibition. Currently CATL has an extensive technology roadmap for batteries, and has developed the capability to turn fundamental research to industrial application, and then to large-scale commercial applications.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Thirteen European automobile manufacturers, suppliers, research institutes and universities, and small and mid-sized companies will operate 100 vehicles with 1,000 drivers under real conditions and in a wide range of applications. —Aria Etemad from Volkswagen Group Research, project coordinator L3Pilot.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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APRIL 14, 2016

BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., At BAIC Group, we are pleased to work with Academician Hufenbach's team in the lightweighting field.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

PGE is partnering with state and local government, higher education, the automobile industry, and businesses to expand the electric vehicle infrastructure in Oregon. Ford will draw upon PGE’s partnership with Portland State University to further study urban mobility and the integration of energy and sustainable design.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Engineers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have designed a “2-in-1” electric motor unit which can increase the range of electric vehicles in hot climates. For the automobile manufacturers, the new electric motor will also cost less to produce, as it requires less material than its counterparts.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Toyota Research Institute (TRI) ( earlier post ) is making a $22-million investment in research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the University of Michigan (U-M). TRI- CEO Gill Pratt made the announcement in an address to the U-M faculty.

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APRIL 11, 2014

The team includes universities, non-university research facilities, semiconductor manufacturers, electric motor builders, automobile component suppliers and automobile manufacturers. The €36-million (US$50-million) MotorBrain effort is one of the largest single European research projects in the area of electromobility.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Audi and the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU) are establishing the “Audi.JKU deep learning center” in Linz to conduct joint research into the intelligent car of the future. Sepp Hochreiter, Audi plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence in automobiles.

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MAY 14, 2023

A research team led by Professor Yong-Tae Kim and PhD candidate Sang-Hoon You at Pohang University Of Science & Technology (POSTECH) has developed a selective catalyst that curbs corrosion in fuel cells used for hydrogen-powered automobiles. Fuel cells are susceptible to numerous factors that deteriorate their durability.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. The automobile’s evolution from a stand-alone, independently operated vehicle to one that operates as part of a network.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Sino Parking Services Limited (Sino Parking) have jointly developed and launched a new parking application for Android smartphones.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

A team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China reports on a way to reduce the platinum loading in automotive three-way catalysts (for CO, NO x and hydrocarbon treatment) without sacrificing performance. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Furthermore, their range and charging speed keep pace with those of combustion engines, making them universal cars for everyday needs, from short trips to the store to longer road trips when going on vacation. The first Audi production vehicles built on the PPE platform will be successively unveiled starting in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. To be able to complete the ammonia-to-nitrogen reaction under ambient conditions—and get energy—is a pretty big deal.

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JULY 9, 2012

However, generally speaking, the government continued, China has not achieved a breakthrough with new energy automobiles and core components of the key technologies. Energy-saving and new energy vehicles have become the development direction of the international automobile industry. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

The joint venture will lay the foundation for reliable sources of LFP with regard to the rapidly growing use of lithium-ion batteries for on-site energy storage and for electric and hybrid automobile drives. LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Two of the vehicles are educational entries from Cornell University and West Philadelphia High School. Colleges and high schools with automobile technology programs are encouraged to bring their project cars. The X Prize cars will be entered in one of two fuel economy rallies that will be run on the WGI’s 2.45-mile

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AUGUST 5, 2013

With the method elaborated in the DIANA project, in future electronic errors in automobiles will be identified much faster—meaning that they can be repaired more efficiently. Vehicle electronics are extremely—and increasingly—complex.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

AUDI AG and the Technical University of Dresden entered into a strategic partnership with the goal of making further progress with technical innovations. In addition to physicists, electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, psychologists and transport scientists will work together on topics relating to automobile manufacturing.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Now, researchers at Washington State University, University of New Mexico, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report developing a catalyst that can both withstand high temperatures and convert pollutants at near room temperature.

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JULY 17, 2012

Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. Our exclusive relationship with RelayRides provides an exciting new choice: the first automobiles to run on collaborative consumption. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. million automobiles were sold in the United States in 2019, of which only about 245,000 were battery-powered electric vehicles, researchers said. billion developing the Chevy Volt.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Singapore University of Technology and Design have added a “fourth dimension” to additive manufacturing technology, opening up possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. A team led by H.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In a press briefing held in Tokyo on its initiatives in automobile electrification, Honda announced that it will spend approximately ¥5 trillion (US$40 billion) in the area of electrification and software technologies to further accelerate its electrification over the next 10 years, including both R&D expenses (¥3.5 trillion / US$12 billion).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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