Remove Design Remove Global Remove Personal Remove South Africa
article thumbnail

Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups.

Mercedes 150
article thumbnail

Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Green Car Congress

Initiated by Shell, the collaboration, which is called Project M, brings together Shell’s Lubricant’s Technology Team, The Gordon Murray Design Group and Goto’s engine specialist company Geo Technology. The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Gordon Murray Design’s first milestone was the T.25.

Cars 150
article thumbnail

Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

Green Car Congress

The Mercedes-Benz pickup will share some of the architecture with the all-new Nissan NP300 but it will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers. The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers.

Nissan 150
article thumbnail

When "AI for Good" Goes Wrong

Cars That Think

This guest article is adapted from the author’s new book From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech , published by MIT Press. In 2023, 499 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa, an increase of more than 10 percent from 2022. What makes AI “good,” though?

Malawi 100
article thumbnail

Ford launches innovate mobility challenge series

Green Car Congress

The worldwide challenges kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; and Mumbai, India; before moving on to Delhi and the Chennai region in India; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a countrywide challenge in Argentina. Lisbon, Portugal: Different sized cities utilize different mobility infrastructure.

Ford 218
article thumbnail

The Algorithm that Mapped Omicron Shows a Path Forward

Cars That Think

When Omicron, the now ubiquitous COVID-19 variant, first emerged in South Africa in November, scientists were immediately worried. This surveillance helps them design vaccines that more closely match the latest viral strains. That’s when people get sick and potentially transmit the new viral variant to others. Chris Philpot.

Atlanta 102
article thumbnail

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

Climate 236