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Fiat chrysler automobiles (24)
Ford motor company (92)
General motors (40)
Honda motor (32)
Hyunday motor group (8)
Nissan motor company (44)
Tata group (9)
Toyota group (99)
Volkswagen group (176)

In the century since the Ford Model T was introduced in 1908, global vehicle numbers have swollen to well over a billion.

BMW vision for the way its engineers should be working on its cars is different. Instead of reaching for any of the shiny silver tools on his cart the mechanic picks up a pair of what looks like sunglasses with connected buds for his ears.

but car companies are jumping into the augmented reality world. Volkswagen is using AR and promoting it as the futuristic way to provide servicing for its new concept, the XL1.

The Augmented reality maintenance and service support system is named Marta (Mobile Augmented reality Technical assistance) and will provide instructions to help identify

As well as car companies using the technology internally to help engineers and mechanics, it is increasingly being made available to the rest of us.

Audi has released recently a mobile phone app in Europe that can identify over 200 elements on the inside of a car.

This is currently being exploited by German carmaker Audi, which uses it to recapture energy usually lost

a modified Hybrid chevrolet Corvette, usually viewed as an all-American muscle car. This car also runs on a blend of biofuel, known as E85.

The simulator consists of a racing seat, a large flatscreen in front, and immersive sound. The experience is like a racing game,

says Phil Talbot, director of communications at The british Red cross. ny means that can increase communication

says Talbot. ften they are more traditional technologies, like mobile phones. It is impossible to prevent many emergencies and natural disasters from happening,

audis don like to work, she says. Many Saudis are supported fully, by family or government, and don work until they graduate from university. n Saudi arabia,

like drinking water and energy but these entrepreneurs are building a different economy. audi is the largest consumer of Youtube content per capita in the world,

the proliferation of self-driving cars like General motors'EN-V could help prevent collisions with pedestrians (and other automobiles),

Electric car makers have begun poring over a wealth of data on how their vehicles are used. The information promises to provide insights about how people drive that were impossible to gain on such a large scale before#from charging habits to the ways people adapt to life with an electric car.

The Volt, for example, is fitted with Chevrolet's Onstar communication system that can broadcast driver data via its cellular connection.

thanks to a fight between electric car maker Tesla, and a reviewer from the New york times. On a test drive, the reviewer claimed he ran out of battery power,

#says Mike Tinskey at Ford motor company.""We know our customer better than we've ever known them before because of these telematics.#

Ford's data shows that electric vehicles, including hybrids, are being driven about 203,000 miles every day in the United states,

Data from the Nissan leaf, meanwhile, has thrown up a few surprises. It has a range of about 75 miles (120 km) between charges,

#says Eric Gottfried of Nissan North america.""We find that most people drive about 30 to 35 miles a day.#

The diversity of companies here#ranging from every major telecom player to automobile manufacturer to banking company means that the talent pool is diverse and with valuable experience.

Seattle, Portland) the Leaf was Nissan's top selling vehicle. Tesla appears to have a big hit on its hands with the Model S. Chevrolet has the Volt (known as the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera in Europe),

and BMW has introduced just the i3. The number of new models being launched in the US

and Europe next year is expected to be in the region of double figures. The question is

"We work with multinational manufacturers#General motors, BMW, Ford, Audi,#says Keith Hardy. the centre's director."

"They want to sell their cars around the world, without having to worry about different standards, different communication requirements, different billing systems.

CHADEMO, in the Nissan leaf and Mitsubishi miev; the SAE Combo Coupler, used by US and European manufacturers;

This is achieved with the use of two gyroscopes, underneath the seats. They contain heavy metal discs

with one seat and a large bank of computer processors taking up most of the internal space, but the final design calls for two seats, one behind the other."

"This would all be shrunk and nicely packaged for our production vehicle, #says Kim. I was told that at 6 foot 2 inches (1. 88m) I am at the upper end of the height range that it is designed for,

The Smart fortwo micro city car may be a good comparison. It also cuts the amount of car on the roads by halving the length rather than the width,

because they pushed the Aston martin Jaguar land rover Volvo. However they haven't pushed the Lincoln brand.

#Tesla Releases Patents in Unprecedented Move to Advance Electric vehicles Other automakers, you, too, can build like Tesla.

#Beer and Food Scraps Can Power Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala Trash to fuel the stuff of the 1980s sci-fi comedy movie trilogy ack to the Futureis now a reality.

The 2015 Bi-fuel Chevrolet Impala not a tricked-out Delorean really can run on leftovers table scraps and oh yeah grains from brewing beer.

which is converted then into Compressed natural gas (CNG) one of two fuels that can power the 2015 Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala.

Founded in 1911 in Detroit Chevrolet is now one of the world largest car brands doing business in more than 140 countries and selling more than 4. 9 million cars and trucks a year.

Chevrolet provides customers with fuel efficient vehicles that feature spirited performance expressive design and high quality. More information on Chevrolet models can be found at www. chevrolet. com. quasar is a Cleveland Ohio based renewable energy company that designs builds owns

and operates anaerobic digestion systems. quasar has thirteen operational anaerobic digestion facilities throughout the United states with several more under construction

#Cadillac ELR Regen On Demand Technology Wins Award Cadillac, in developing the ELR extended range electric vehicle,

As for what this is specifically, Cadillac described Regen on Demand by saying that ike most regenerative braking systems in hybrid and electric vehicles,

Cadillac Regen on Demand is inspired an example of how technology can increase efficiency while connecting with a driver, enhancing driving dynamics along the way.

Besides the Cadillac ELR technology, other nominees for the award included the Acura Sport Hybrid SH-AWD powertrain;

Audi 3. 0-liter TDI clean diesel engine; BMW i3 carbon fiber reinforced plastic passenger cell; Ford 1. 0-liter Ecoboost engine;

Honda accord plug-in powertrain; Hyundai hydrogen fuel cell; Mazda i-ELOOP brake energy regeneration system; Porsche plug-in hybrid powertrain;

#New Sensor Easily Detects Greenhouse gases Scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.

The device uses a thumbnail-sized quantum cascade laser (QCL) as well as tuning forks that cost no more than a dime to detect very small amounts of nitrous oxide and methane.

The QCL emits light from the mid-to far-infrared portion of the spectrum. That allows for far better detection of gases than more common lasers that operate in the near-infrared.

The technique called uartz-enhanced photoacoustic absorption spectroscopy (QEPAS invented at Rice university in 2002 by engineer Frank Tittel, Professor Robert Curl,

and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.

What does it take to create a special electric vehicle tire particularly one up to the standards of BMW's new i3?

when the German automaker approached it about designing a range of tires that it is the exclusive supplier of for this luxury electric car.

'The BMW i3 is very much a car for the future'said Franco Annunziato CEO and President of Bridgestone Europe in a statement.

The PH&EV Research center At ITS-Davis collaborates closely with California utilities, the Electric power Research Institute, automakers,

Different models of aircraft have different body shapes, different types of seats and cabins, and so on.

In the case study involving Daimler one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in Europe the research led to a new milling strategy to reduce the manufacturing time for new gear concepts.

Then I hit my head into the seat of the driver. And I was rolling inside the car somewhere,

The SMD technology was developed initially by the aerospace manufacturer Rolls-royce plc but was adopted not widely for commercial production due to perceived technical limitations.

We ve tagged a Ford; we should be able to tag a Chevy. he study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers who conducted this study come from UC Davis Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and the Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Automakers have considered long the hydrogen fuel cell a promising alternative to the gasoline engine. Fuel cell technology is essentially water splitting in reverse.

In 2015 American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers.

and make it impermeable to gastour says. his becomes increasingly important as automakers think about powering cars with natural gas.

Metal tanks that can handle natural gas under pressure are often much heavier than the automakers would like. e says the material could help to solve longstanding problems in food packaging too. emember

and dodges screen freezes in mobile devices. It s the bane of streaming media#the endlessly spinning cursor on a dark screen or the final minutes of a favorite show freezing to a halt

The Body Steering driver's seat of the Humancarrow, row, row your car...Humancar aims for a healthy planet with healthy drivers History The Humancar is the brainchild of Chief Scientist/Engineer Charles Samuel Greenwood P. E.,who first hit upon the idea for a human

The Body Steering driver's seat of the Humancar The vehicle custom CPU operates off trigger buttons on the center brake handle to engage functions such as regenerative power,

I can help imagining arguments emanating from the back seats on family outings with one sibling blaming another for not pulling their weight but maybe that just my family.

#Nissan and NASA team up for autonomous drive vehicle development It may seem akin to an alliance between a railway and a submarine manufacturer,

but Japanese automaker Nissan has signed a pact with US space agency NASA to develop self-driving cars. The five-year agreement announced last week covers a partnership on research and development of autonomous vehicle systems and their commercial applications.

Ames director S. Peter Worden and Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn (Image: Nissan) The agreement covers a five-year partnership (Image:

Nissan) The goal of the pact is to develop autonomous driving technologies with terrestrial and sp...

The pact will carry on until 2020 (Image: Nissan) View All the agreement involves scientists and engineers at Nissan's US Silicon valley Research center and NASA's Ames Research center,

also located in Silicon valley. Though such a partnership may not seem logical, NASA has, in fact, been in the car business for over forty years,

"The work of NASA and Nissan with one directed to space and the other directed to earth, is connected by similar challenges,

"says Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan motor company.""The partnership will accelerate Nissan's development of safe,

secure and reliable autonomous drive technology that we will progressively introduce to consumers beginning in 2016 up to 2020."

"Nissan says that the partnership will focus on the development of autonomous driving systems, human-machine interfaces, network-based applications,

From the comfort of your own La-z-boy the Oculus Rift could give you the best seats in the house#perhaps switching from seat-to-seat as the action moves.

Have a seat...and"turn downtime into exercise time.""The TAO Chair, which we took a look at at CES last week,

#Toyota opens fuel cell patents to drive hydrogen society Toyota is serious about hydrogen fuel cell technology.

At this year's Consumer electronics Show, the automaker announced that it will open more than 5,

and provide royalty-free licenses to other automakers and entities. Upon walking into Toyota's CES press conference, the shimmering Mirai under the hard conference room lighting suggested that it might just be a rehashing of the details we already learned at November's LA Auto Show.

Instead Toyota used the Mirai as a jumping off point for what it terms the"hydrogen future.""

""We're leaving the age of hydrocarbons and entering the age of hydrogen to create a hydrogen nonpolluting society,"physicist,

futurist and author Dr. Michio Kaku said from Toyota's dais.""Seventy-five percent of the universe is made out of hydrogen.

"Toyota hopes to help jumpstart this future hydrogen society by sharing its intellectual property. This week's announcement represents the first time that it's sharing patents free of charge.

The automaker helped to grow the gas-electric hybrid market in a similar manner, but those licensed technologies didn't come free."

"At Toyota, we believe that when good ideas are shared, great things can happen, "said Bob Carter, senior VP of automotive operations at Toyota motor Sales,

USA Inc."The first generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, launched between 2015 and 2020, will be critical,

requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers.

They will be made available to fuel cell vehicle manufacturers, fuel cell parts suppliers, and hydrogen fueling station companies through an initial market introduction period that Toyota expects to run until 2020.

Toyota will consider requests from outside the transportation sector on a case by case basis. Last year,

#Self-tinting breathing window doubles as a transparent battery Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a smart window that is able to tint itself blue,

#BMW VW join forces to build fast-charging stations for electric cars in US German car companies, BMW and Volkswagen are teaming up with Chargepoint to install a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars in the U s. The companies plan to install nearly 100 Chargepoint ports on the U s. East

and West Coasts by the end of 2015 as part of an effort to promote greater sales of EVS such as the BMW i3 and the VW e-Golf.

Chargepoint operates one of the leading EV charging networks, with more than 20 000 charging ports in North america.

said BMW and VW were among the largest vehicle manufacturers to help fund development of the U s. charging network. ost people will rarely use it,

The BMW/VW endeavor follows the establishment by California-based electric car maker Tesla motors Inc of an extensive network of fast-charging stations for its battery-powered Model S sedan.

and the e-Golf as well as the CHADEMO connector used on the Nissan leaf. The stations will also have Level 2 chargers,

BMW and VW said the Chargepoint DC Fast ports will be able to recharge an i3 or an e-Golf up to 80 percent in 20 to 30 minutes.

BMW and VW owners are enrolled automatically. VW and BMW are making equal investments in the Chargepoint venture,

#Roll to roll manufactured decorative solar panels to be 10 times cheaper Based on printing technologies, VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed

and utilized a mass production method allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels. Freedom of design increases the range of panel applications on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces.

#Tesla motors#Destination Charging#:#Fast-growing Network Beyond Superchargers One of the most commonly cited arguments against electric cars is range anxiety.

Tesla motors has been rapidly expanding its Supercharger network in the U s.,Canada, Europe, and Asia to combat this fear of not having a place to charge before your battery quits.

The car company, Mclaren is designing a sports car that uses a system adapted from fighter jets to keep a driver s vision clear in bad weather without the need for blades.##

and simulating the cerebral cortex, the seat of cognition, ##Kurzweil continues;####The human cortex has about 22 billion neurons and 220 trillion synapses.##

#Tesla batteries are powering an energy revolution Solarcity generator Tesla motors lithium-ion battery packs aren t just powering electric luxury sports sedans for wealthy any more.

While Stem is a startup the utilities should be particularly wary of Solarcity and its partnership with Tesla motors.

Its frame is created from carbon fiber to keep the aircraft lightweight and It seats two people.

#Uber teams with GM and Toyota to help 100k drivers buy cars to get more Ubers on the road The expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system.

The company is partnering with GM, Toyota, and financial institutions to offer 100,000 driversreduced monthly car payments, in an effort get more Uber drivers on the road.##

Over the next few years, auto makers and suppliers will collect this datain a variety of ways:

##It s very important for auto makers to be transparent. Transparency will lead to openness of information.

But, the automaker also can claim rights to anonymized data. If you got a system collecting bits of data where they wipe info that is traceable,

there s a lot of discussion that the auto maker owns that information, ##he said. All of these details need to be defined

Airline seat concept that could morph to fit each passenger Morph airline seating. Traveling by air on a budget isn t pleasant.

Rather than a trio of individual seats, each made of several pieces of fabric and foam, Morph is described better as a bench.

A single piece of fabric is stretched across to form the seats, and another forms the back of the chair.

The individual seats are designated using armrests and dividers to clamp the fabric in place. Instead of moving the entire seat back to adjust the pitch of the chair,

mechanized seat formers are positioned under the fabric, allowing users to decide the recline and support that best fits them.

Because the back of the seat is fixed in place the seat in front of you will never be reclined.##

##The semantics of the architecture and visual cues indicate that the back of the seat belongs to the passenger facing it,

##explains the firm. There are also fold-out sections that extend the width of armrests, which Seymourpowell says increases a passenger s sense of independence and control over their own space.

The concept of static seats and the suggestion that they will provide a more pleasant flight experience is interesting,

but it s not mind-blowing. Where Morph comes into its own is in the flexibility of its design.

By moving the dividers that define each seat airline staff can effectively tailor each bench for its occupants.

All three seats take up 54 inches of width##a fairly standard economy bench size. When shared between a trio of passengers, that offers 18 inches each.

when we don t require three equal seats. Seymourpowell offers up the example of a couple traveling with a child.

Morph s design allows for the central seat to be made as small as 10 inches wide.

This creates two 22-inch seats, offering airlines and passengers a##premium##row for those would like to pay more for the space.

This configuration could also potentially save money for overweight people, some of whom buy two adjacent seats when traveling.

the seat formers and adjusting mechanisms move with the dividers (they re also on rails) to form a new seat.

#Tesla, General motors, Nissan and others install heavy batteries that limit vehicle range and performance. The batteries take up as much as 15%of the vehicle s total weight.##

More than one hundred companies including startups such as Witricity and Proxybypower and giants such as Toyota (TM), Intel (INTC), Samsung,

as was Toyota, which is reported to have plans to test a wireless charging station for plug-in cars.

#Here s why automakers want 4g technology in cars Automakers are counting on the connected car.

and#integrating 4G LTE service into their cars starting this year. Drivers pay a monthly service fee for#in-car 4g#that s separate from their smartphones,

It s a win-win for automakers the dealers who sell the 4g add-ons, and carriers like AT&T. But is it a win for consumers?##

##Audi, the first major automaker to introduce 4g connectivity, debuted the option in their 2015 A3 car.

GM is adding 4g capability to nearly all of their 2015 Buick models, and 4g is also rolling out to Chevrolet and Dodge within the year.

While some luxury cars have come with built in 3g in the past, there are two major game changers here:

Both GM and Audi are aggressively targeting middle-market consumers, and 4g viewers tend to consume a whole lot of bandwidth-intensive video content which generates expensive data fees.

Phil Abram, GM s chief infotainment officer (a job title which does actually exist) is the man responsible for rolling out interactive content and delivery systems for Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac,

he said that the 2015 Buick Lesabre, the first GM model with 4g, debuted in June

In promotional materials, Audi and GM both emphasize 4G LTE service as a mechanism for users to get in-car entertainment, rather than for navigation or safety monitoring.

Buick boasts they cankeep everyone happy with streamed movies, music, and games, while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.

Smartphone and#car convergence#has been happening for quite some time and in-car 4g allows automakers to solve the vexing customer issue of answering demand to integrate smartphones without sacrificing safety or usability,

while simultaneously pushing a#lucrative car option#to market. Audi is offering drivers their a new and data-intensive navigation system,

which feeds the dashboard with information on#nearby gas stations, restaurants, and all sorts of Google earth overlays.

2013, Elon musk, chief executive of Tesla motors TSLA+2. 28%and Spacex, revealed details of a new super fast mode of transportation called the Hyperloop.

Why should our benches just be seats? The Soofa was built and designed by three female engineers working with the MIT Media Lab spinoff startup Changing environments, according to Yahoo Tech.

shifting through nine different classes for six hours a day, sitting in their seats. They need a different schooling experience.

who developed the cathode tech used today in the Toyota prius and the Tesla Model S. Takeya splits his time between San francisco

In the immediate future, electric cars at least from dominant players Tesla and Nissan are betting on lithium ion chemistry for batteries.

legislators, transport authorities, a major city, a vehicle manufacturer, and real customers. The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.

their only option was to walk into a showroom for the Nissan leaf. But now there are several electric

Signs point to yes many automakers like BMW and Kia are just starting to release electric cars,

or EPFL are collaborating closely with PSA Peugeot Citroen and developing an in-car emotion detection system designed to watch out for emotions like anger and disgust.

Bitcoin the currency As a currency, bitcoin is in many ways the antithesis of modern fiat currencies.

compared with the 43 years of the global fiat system we have today. History thus clearly shows that the idea of a currency deriving value primarily from thebacking of some central state is nonsense.

#Tesla s plans for world s largest battery factory will be a game changer Tesla motors, the electric car maker, hasn blazed just its own trail

when it comes to designing and building a hot electric car. It also made breakthroughs in many aspects of the automotive business (the sales channel, the servicing,

Traditionally auto makers have multiple suppliers for core components so that they can get the best price and use the other suppliers as leverage.

Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,

After seeing improved production results and EURS with far less production variations between wells Devon has chosen to incorporate the CYPHER service in the Eagle Ford Shale as part of their technology efforts to help them better understand the reservoir

Automakers are just starting to look at optimizing the EV driving and charging experience as is refashioned the newly Chargepoint app.

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#BMW offers free (and fast) EV charging Thinking about buying an electric car but worried about range and places to plug in?

Nissan recently said that Leaf buyers will have free public charging for two years in 25 U s. cities with 10 of them already online.

and now BMW is jumping in with two announcements to support its new i3 electric and i8 plug-in hybrid models.

According to BMW spokesman Dave Buchko t a DC fast charger at half the size and a third of the size of previous fast chargers.

Businesses and municipalities that partner with BMW will be able to buy the charger which is capable of charging an i3 (to 80 percent) in 30 minutes for $6548.

BMW's fast charger weighs less than 200 pounds and can be mounted on the wall. Photo:

BMW) BMW fast charger uses the Society of Automotive Engineersomboplug which makes it compatible with most U s

. and German EVS (including the Chevrolet Spark) but not with the Nissan leaf which uses the more established Japanese CHADEMO standard.

but the low-cost BMW unit is not one of those the company said. BMW second announcement is about a Chargenow partnership with NRG evgo and Chargepoint.

By the end of 2015 the utility will have installed 100 of its own fast chargers (15 in 2014) around California said Rob Healey EV infrastructure manager for BMW of North america.

Through the end of next year i3 drivers will be able to enjoy 30-minute free charges at those stations

Theyl be able to use the same Chargenow card for BMW fast chargers NRG reedom stationsor Chargepoint units. t the first step to true interoperabilityhealey said.

Not all BMW i3s are fast-charge capable by the way. It a $700 option. But trust me on this it worth the money for the flexibility it adds.

and range extender REX cars) but BMW Healey says the data isn there yet. he i3 has only been on the market for two