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Paris Promised the Olympics Would Be Accessible. The Clock Is Ticking.

Baua Electric

For example, the newly built 128-acre Olympic and Paralympic Village , hailed by the organizers and advocacy groups as a shining example of universal design, offers accessible buildings, multisensory signage and zones for assistance dogs. Another time she almost missed her connecting flight waiting for promised assistance.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

Green Car Congress

The critical component of this project is the effective usage of huge and diverse sets of data from several sources such as GPS data from Grab Taxi and Public Buses, CCTV footage and multiple sensors.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. His team’s studies showed that to get reliable connections, every home would need at least four active receivers, he says.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m by Bill Cooke. A Q&A with Luca Guala on the Masdar PRT is available here. Heywood, J.,

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

Same goes for fleet customers—you can benefit from the cars that are connected for a longer period of time, and you can charge them when it’s cheaper. Or in some cases in city centers, it may be even not possible to upgrade the grid connection to the maximum power of all chargers being used at the same time.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Same goes for fleet customers—you can benefit from the cars that are connected for a longer period of time, and you can charge them when it’s cheaper. Or in some cases in city centers, it may be even not possible to upgrade the grid connection to the maximum power of all chargers being used at the same time.