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Ricardo TorqStor flywheel energy storage technology receives SAE 2014 World Congress Tech Award

Green Car Congress

The Tech Award recipients were announced today by the editors of Automotive Engineering magazine, based on engineering innovation, uniqueness, potential for real-world production application and potential benefit for industry customers and end users.

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Audi sets new lap record for diesels on Sachsenring; electric compressor overcomes turbo lag, enhances sprint performance

Green Car Congress

The concept, also equipped with the electric compressor, introduced a 48V subsystem to drive the electric compressor; energy required to drive the electric compressor is largely generated by recuperation during coasting phases and stored in its own compact Li-ion battery.) Since then, the car was further developed for racetrack duty.

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Tesla Owners Throw Party To Thank Store, Service Staff

Green Car Reports

The Tesla Model S recently earned even more praise from Consumer Reports, scoring 103 out of 100 on the magazine's rating scale. Carmakers sometimes make gestures to demonstrate their appreciation of loyal customers, but it's rare for that scenario to be reversed.

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The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Cars That Think

Not only will batteries be needed for our phones, laptops, power tools, cars, ships, and planes, but also to store energy from renewable sources. He also said that the same sort of performance increase would not happen for devices that needed to store energy. Within each of those cells is a chemical paste that stores the charges.

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

Ranger images the unique “fingerprint” of road surfaces by matching thousands of distinguishing ground features, such as aggregate, cracks and road markings, to corresponding features collected and stored in a map. Once a map is built, localization is performed by matching a live image frame to an image frame stored in the map.

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What's the matter with Costco?

Plugs and Cars

Costco's own magazine proudly reported in 2006, just as the film was being released, that 64 stores had a total of 90 charge stations. It has been reported that some store managers would rather not be removing chargers right when we see plug-in cars coming to market.

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This Autonomous Robot Might Soon Make Food Deliveries in Airports

Cars That Think

Today Ottobot is being piloted not only by restaurants but also grocery stores, postal services, and airports. A store or restaurant employee loads the ordered items into Ottobot. Ottonomy, which has raised more than US $4.5 The robot is not replacing any staff members; it’s aiding them in their duties,” Vijay says.

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