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Are Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru Doing the Right Thing By Snubbing EVs?

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Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru conducted a press event designed to explain why they’re walking away from full-blown electrification. According to Automotive News , the conference lasted roughly three hours and included numerous prototype vehicles and engine designs. But he offered little new insight into its future evolution.

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Toyota CSRC launches new research tracks on autonomous & connected vehicle technologies; 11 projects with 8 institutions

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The eleven projects—launched in partnership with eight leading research institutions in North America—mark the first projects launched under CSRC Next ( earlier post ), which is the Center’s new five-year program that continues to support a safer transition to the future of mobility. —Chuck Gulash, director of CSRC.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center to study societal acceptance of connected and automated vehicle technologies

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The new projects, undertaken in partnership with five US research institutions, will launch as part of CSRC Next, the Center’s new five-year program designed to support and inform a safe transition to future mobility. A Neuroergonomic Evaluation of Mental Model Development of Future Automated Driving Technologies. Rockville Institute.

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Toyota Sticking With NiMH for Strong Hybrids in Near Term

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Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared to lithium for this application, Kuroda said. Toyota has been able to bring down the cost of the NiMH pack in the Prius “dramatically”, he said.

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2023 Los Angeles Auto Show Recap -- Stepping in the Right Direction

The Truth About Cars

As I said, the amount of activity at any one given auto-show media day might not provide great insight to the bigger picture. The Gravity was the biggest star of the show -- again, among those that got a press conference -- but the Camry slipped under the radar. At least in my opinion.

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ABI Research: vehicle sensor crowdsourcing to transform the digital map ecosystem; need for standards

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Highly accurate, real-time maps are an essential next step as the automotive industry steers toward the future of fully driverless cars. And at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), NVIDIA announced its new HD mapping approach based on its DRIVE PX machine vision hardware platform. —Dominique Bonte.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

I have seen the future and it is a new car electric car from Nissan. You might as well call most of the cars they’re selling “future clunkers.&# Talk about a company screwing up its own brand future… Contrast that with Nissan’s sincere and very prescient effort to delver the real deal. Really Ford?

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