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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

Green Car Congress

The Ford Developer Program for open mobile apps provides a software development kit (SDK), technical support from Ford engineers and a developer community to enable utilizing the SYNC connectivity system and AppLink application programming interface (API). Music and Entertainment. Navigation and Location.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Because of Hondas different architecture (the engine runs whenever the motor runs), aftermarket conversion of Hondas are unlikely. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.) We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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Opinions and Rants

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

For those of you who have read my blog entries in the past, you know I've blown up the internal FETs of the DC-DC over five times and spent countless hours reverse-engineering the circuit with experts at work to see just what could possibly be wrong with the system. The 9" DC motor from ElectroAuto's kit 20 years ago provided more torque.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

IIT KGP runs the law program exclusively for engineers. Followed Google Maps to hit Hosur road - and from then on the Maps was switched off. The last 5% takes much more time - and so if you have another person behind you, you are not expected to do a full charge. We switched on Google Maps and left for Ooty.

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2024 Polestar 2 RWD: why the cheaper entry level beats the dual motor AWD

EV Central

2024 Polestar 2 with revised front grille and a switch from front- to rear-wheel-drive Personally, I’d be comfortable with that already ample range. The revised front end now features Polestar’s ‘SmartZone’ – including a front-facing camera and radar to bring improved standard safety kit.