Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2017

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) announced a sweeping set of new research programs studying the opportunities and addressing the challenges of emerging vehicle technologies. Autonomous and connected vehicle technologies are only just beginning to transform the transportation landscape.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study published in the Journal of Transport Geography has alleged that “car harm” cannot be undone by the world pivoting to all-electric vehicles.& The issue, as framed in the study, isn’t that EVs still pose a problem. The motivation for the study came out of a simple need, Miner said.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Launched in May 2017, CSRC Next builds upon the insights gained from the CSRC’s first five years to direct $35 million towards safety research into advanced vehicle technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have agreed to collaborate on developing, verifying, and standardizing technology in the connected car field, combining the automotive vehicle-related technologies of Toyota with the information and communication technologies(ICT) of NTT Group companies. NTT DOCOMO.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2019

Airbus, Groupe ADP and the RATP Group, along with the Paris Ile-de-France region and the French civil aviation authority (DGAC), have launched a feasibility study to demonstrate an urban system of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Ipsos, the global research and insights organization, explored consumer thoughts in its third annual Global Mobility Navigator Syndicated Study. The study comprises three modules, with the first focusing on Autonomous Driving. The study revealed there are connected car features drivers would be interested in today.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2017

The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). One of the key beneficiaries of CSRC research has been emergency medicine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A new report by the EU’s Joint Research Center (JRC) explores how connected vehicles and intelligent systems could change transport and the (r)evolution these changes could bring to people’s lives. The report serves as a first input to anticipated policy formulation and also points to the need for further research in the field.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Women in their 70s and 80s who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution experienced greater declines in memory and more Alzheimer’s-like brain atrophy than their counterparts who breathed cleaner air, according to a new study by researchers at USC, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and their colleagues at other institutions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

A number of studies have also reported that stop-arm violations continue to be one of the greatest dangers to school children. In addition to propane-fueled buses, Blue Bird is the only school bus maker in the US that builds electric variants of all three school bus types: A, C, and D. Temple, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

Nouryon and Gasunie are studying an expansion of a planned green hydrogen unit at Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The feasibility study follows a deal to convert sustainable electricity into green hydrogen for SkyNRG. Gas infrastructure plays a connecting and facilitating role in the energy transition.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

Opel CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann previewed the new Opel Monza Concept study, slated for its world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show from 12 – 22 September. The Monza Concept focuses on two major themes which will be top priorities for the next generation of Opel models: efficiency and connectivity. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to city officials, the proposed pedestrian tunnel project was shut down even before a feasibility study could be performed. The company is also actively building out the first phases of the 29-mile Vegas Loop , which connects several of the city’s key destinations. So far, the startup has built a 0.8-mile

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

The researchers made their discovery by developing a technique to measure the amounts of inactive lithium species on the anode—a first in the field of battery research—and studying their micro- and nanostructures. Inactive lithium is also made up of another component: lithium ions, which are the building blocks of the SEI layer.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Billions of “intelligent objects” packed with sensors are connected to each other and to servers, capturing and exchanging, in real time, huge amounts of data. Well, not all of our planet: IoT does not connect us to seas and oceans. Scientists use it for instance for studying how algae, corals, and animals adapt to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

earlier post ) announced a technical collaboration to complete a design study to incorporate Universal Hydrogen’s modular capsule technology into the Dornier 328 program. Deutsche Aircraft, the new purpose-driven German aircraft Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) ( earlier post ), and Universal Hydrogen Co.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

and Tongji University announced the continuation of their successful collaboration through the new Shanghai Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Demonstration Program. Dedicated to developing customized connected car solutions for the Chinese market based, the joint lab utilizes NXP’s technology competencies and market experience solutions.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 22, 2022

It’s nearly impossible to find a household today that doesn’t have at least one connected smart home device installed. Managing the server activity of those connected devices is a unique challenge to SimpliSafe. Managing the server activity of those connected devices is a unique challenge to SimpliSafe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2019

The processes that create ozone pollution in the summer can also trigger the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in partnership with the University of Utah. —Caroline Womack. Womack, C. McDuffie, E. Edwards, P. Docherty, K.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A new study by a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) suggests that low penetration rates of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can deliver significant fuel consumption benefits, but that the total travel time increases slightly. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Rios-Torres and Malikopoulos (2016). Rios-Torres, J.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2023

Software-defined vehicles will become a reality when all the underlying hardware—the ECUs and all the connectivity—meets the software’s demanding requirements. This is critical to ensure that messages reach their destination in real-time when Automotive Ethernet connects safety-critical functions (e.g. the brake signal).

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

CSRC will concentrate on supporting a safe transition to the future of mobility, particularly through emerging automated- and connected-vehicle technologies. Autonomous driving Big Data Connected vehicles Driver Assistance Systems Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Safety'

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale. system fragmented into about a dozen regions with limited connectivity between them.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

million facility ( earlier post ) for testing connected and automated vehicles; the facility, the schematic design of which was recently approved by the university’s the Board of Regents, is part of the U-M’s Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) ( earlier post ). The University of Michigan is proceeding to the construction phase of a new $6.5-million

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. —Jin et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. Different forms of gated communities were also found to be on the rise globally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

—Dane Christensen, a mechanical engineer in NREL’s Residential Buildings Research Group and a principal investigator on a blockchain pilot project. But it is difficult to scale EMS and ADMS to interoperate transactions between thousands of homes, let alone the millions of connected devices in use in those homes. Source: NREL.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. In addition to building two cutting-edge chip factories on a 4-square-kilometer megasite that could hold six more fabs, the company has pledged $50 million to 80 higher-education institutions in the state.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2022

With the assistance of MMFP funding, and in partnership with the University of Michigan (UM), MCity and Velodyne Lidar, Bluecity will deploy its real-time traffic monitoring and data analytics solution at five different intersections across Ann Arbor to study road users’ behavior. Mouvit ($100,000).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The project is focused on topics such as e-mobility, connectivity and new mobility concepts. Anne-Maren Koch from the field of human resources and organization is studying aspects of the representation of women in management. Via the PhD student forum, we doctoral students are building a Group-wide network in almost all departments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The sports car manufacturer is launching the second open innovation competition for digital development together with Berlin-based connected car application programming interface (API) platform High Mobility. Mission E Cross Turismo electric study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative , a study commissioned by a collaboration among nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities, recommends adding electric vehicle charging for freight haulers and delivery trucks at 50-mile intervals along Interstate 5 and adjoining highways.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Volvo Cars will showcase a new service for direct delivery to a connected vehicle at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Earlier this year Volvo Cars launched Sensus Connect, an integrated on-board navigation and infotainment experience. Last year, 60% of people shopping online had problems with the delivery of their item.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

A key focus of the MTC will be a model deployment that will allow researchers to test emerging concepts in connected and automated vehicles and vehicle systems in both off-road and on-road settings. The model deployment will build in part on a $25-million study for the US Department of Transportation now underway at UMTRI.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Optimally integrating transportation with buildings, the grid, and renewables to realize system-wide benefits. In NREL’s bioenergy program, for example, we have chemists studying the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass and waste materials into fuel. The collective knowledge and expertise at NREL is astounding.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

million contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to continue developing connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies to help passenger vehicles operate more efficiently and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. In the first year of the three-year project, SwRI will focus on infrastructure and simulation studies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2022

Lincoln reported its best annual global sales in 21 years and plans to build on its momentum with the recent launches of the all-new Zephyr in China and the new Navigator in North America. The Lincoln Star is a study of experiences and themes that push the boundaries of Lincoln design—and it’s just the start.

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