Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. But we can change our attitudes. What's more, we are changing.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Part of the Basecamp line of accessories, owners of an Atlas Cross Sport can now opt for styling components inspired by the Atlas Basecamp concept vehicle from a few years ago. Volkswagen is taking a different tack, choosing to offer a raft of accessories instead of installing items on the assembly line.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 12, 2024

Most applications have been limited to personal medical devices and the occasional electronic gizmo reserved for the kind of people who buy five-figure designer watches. China’s NIO suggested it would launch a semi-solid-state battery (merging the concept of solid-state and lithium-ion) that would deliver over 1,000 km of range by 2023.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The user interface of the Motorola Envoy does that for me, even though I never owned one, or indeed any personal digital assistant. The rubber stamp offered decorative elements, including emoticons, which were then a new concept. At its heart, General Magic was attempting to transform personal communications.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Last night, Tesla finally unveiled the production Cybertruck. The truck looks mostly like the concept, with a few differences. Unlike us, Motor Trend was at the reveal event in person and says the truck is smaller than the prototype and is dimensionally similar to a Ford F-150. Us TTAC folk weren't at either event.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While familiar with the concept, I was not ready to traverse the graphs and tables required to determine how much you’re on the hook for depending upon what type of vehicle you’ve chosen. For corporate automobiles that also see private use, benefit-in-kind taxes are calculated as a perk on top of the base salary.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 30, 2024

A letter to the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that these automakers are not only selling off your personal data, they’re doing it for a pathetically small sum of money. In 2022, a study estimated that Facebook can earn up to $900 per user by selling the personal information of users to other companies. Penned by U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 5, 2024

Its booth will reportedly include the VF8 compact crossover, boxy VF3 microcar, and a new pickup concept. Also on display will be the full-size VF9 SUV, which the company said will integrate a new streaming service CES attendees can experience personally, and an all-new electric bike. But it’s plotting to expand its U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 9, 2023

If you’ve ever used iCloud, iMessage, Apple Mail, or Private Relay, then you’re familiar with his work — or at least the products that core infrastructure ended up producing.

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China EV

DECEMBER 19, 2018

But electric doesn’t mean boring and Shyr set out to prove that with its first concept, the H Hypervelocity car. The Hypervelocity concept. It is a vehicle for a person who would enjoy driving, he says. Yep, the Protean Electric led by KY Chan, that I blogged about in late October. Active-agility concept.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 10, 2023

Around that same time, I was booking flights to fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to see the completely transformed Santa Fe in person. We’d be remiss without mentioning the XRT concept, an off-road version that has all-terrain tires, a plethora of off-road accessories, and a lifted suspension. Which I did during the waning days of July.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2009

Gray noted that the costs of battery-powered personal electronics have declined sharply and expressed optimism that the transport sector might see similar gains. However, GM plans to move battery production to the US as soon as possible. on the GM Fastlane blog (earlier post) that the current Volt battery.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 10, 2023

What we found seemed to be a familiar concept with lots of little improvements that added up to something grander than what’s currently on offer. Normally, when you set out to build a jack of all trades, the end product tends to be kind of middling.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 19, 2023

From DOS to the Graphical User Interface There was a time when a majority of personal computer users interacted with their machines via command-line interfaces—that is, through text-based operating systems such as CP/M and MS/DOS, in which users had to type arcane commands to control their computers. But price wasn’t the Lisa’s only problem.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Autoblog Green Cleantech Blog Cleantech Group CNETs Green Tech Earth2Tech EcoGeek Ecotality Green Inc. Unfortunately, battery production is currently dominated by overseas consumer electronics manufacturers, not U.S. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Got a Question? A Comment?

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For example, Volkswagen Group recently opted to cut back on the production of electric cars at its German factories and canceled plans to build a new $2 billion EV factory in Wolfsburg. But it had been eliminating shifts and laying off factory workers all summer, citing “strong customer reluctance” to buy electrified products.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Demands were made that Stellantis begin building vehicles “Americans want to buy and can afford” and to focus on ramping up production. Stellantis responded on September 11th, effectively calling the letter a personal attack against the CEO. We meet and talk monthly, have weekly calls and personal conversations at the highest level.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. .& Many of the promoted solutions exist to inconvenience motorists in a bid to discourage them from driving entirely.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A version of this post was originally published on my personal blog, Berthub.eu. Finally, I talk about an actual useful piece of software I wrote as a proof of concept that one can still make minimal and simple yet modern software. Yet we continue to rely on all these products.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 30, 2022

Very few commercial and cloud systems were tested on all eight, but Nvidia director of product development for accelerated computing Shar Narasimhan gave an interesting example of why systems should be able to handle such breadth: Imagine a person with a smartphone snapping a photo of a flower and asking the phone: “What kind of flower is this?”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. Opener’s strategy is not without risks, either.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Still, Nissan products ended up receiving the same negative score as the vehicles being offered up by Volkswagen, General Motors, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai and all of its subsidiaries. Our main concern is that we can’t tell whether any of the cars encrypt all of the personal information that sits on the car.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 17, 2009

Fisker Automotive , which unveiled the concept version of the Karma in January, recently raised $87 million to help put it into production. Credit: Kevin Bullis The first plug-in hybrid to be sold in the United States will likely be the Fisker Karma, which is due out in November.

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2021

When we see someone on the street doing backflips, we tend to assume this person would be good at walking and running, and also be flexible and athletic enough to be good at other sports. Very likely, such judgement about this person would not be wrong. A person who can spread jam on bread with a spoon can do the same using a fork.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This could likewise help circumvent some of the ecological issues associated with battery production and disposal by reducing the total number required to keep the energy grid functioning. The companies are hoping to sell the concept as a way to help “decarbonize” the energy grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. Our goal is to enable owners to enlist a local electrician/engineer to convert their cars, initially with lead-acid batteries, for under $6,000 and less than two person-weeks of time. (We

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In February, China’s Chery Automobile unveiled an electric concept car at the Detroit Auto Show. If plug-ins take off among Chinese consumers, it could help companies drive down production costs with higher volumes — whether by selling their own vehicles or benefiting from battery suppliers’ economies of scale.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

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Driivz

APRIL 18, 2021

The Flexibility Market Concept. The Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF) extrapolates from the concept of consumer energy flexibility and applies it to the entire energy market, creating new players who can operate under a variety of business models. The flexibility market is an evolving concept.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

With NiMH batteries - those that provide energy to every hybrid on the road and thousands of all-electric cars - the Volt plug-in hybrid could go into production today. An arbitrary decision that merely delays even simple proof of concept, to say nothing of initial commercialization. Write CARB.

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Driivz

MAY 31, 2022

The Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF) extrapolates from the concept of consumer energy flexibility and applies it to the entire energy market, creating new players who can operate under a variety of business models. The post The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management appeared first on Driivz.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. You could even call it Personal On-demand Driving. Just a missing persons report.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Lithium, nickel metal hydrides and even advanced lead acid products are now capable of great energy storage and have strong recycle lives. Currently, battery costs are one of the main barriers, but these barriers are declining as usage and production increase while new technologies and materials continue to push down costs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

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