That is the equivalent of removing 2. 1 million cars from the road or planting 262
#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.
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#RF Safe-Stop can shut down a vehicle s engine by blasting radio waves Will high-speed car chases become a thing of the past?
A company in the U k. has developed a prototype that could stop cars in their tracks by blasting electromagnetic waves.##
##E2v s#RF Safe-Stop#can stall the engine of a vehicle by confusing its electronic systems with radio frequency.
In demonstrations seen by the BBC, a car drove towards the device at about 15mph (24km/h). As the vehicle entered the range of the RF Safe-Stop,
and the car rolled gently to a halt. Digital audio and video recording devices in the vehicle were affected also.
There are concerns about the technology s effects on electronic braking and steering systems but EV2 says the risks are low.
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if you got a car or some kids in the driveway.####Fedex founder Fred Smith has spoken repeatedly about his desire to#move to a fleet of unmanned aircraft,
use the throttle level. To turn it, tilt your iphone in the direction you d like the paper plane to head.
##explained NASA Apollo 11 lunar landing vehicle manager Hubert Davis, a member of#the Solar High Study Group#of nine former NASA and Apollo program scientists and retired
Greener and more efficient vehicles of all types are eventually becoming the standard. Even helicopters are becoming greener.
Video)##E-volo s#vehicle may look bizarre, but the concept is actually brilliant. It has 18 rotors,
Its frame is created from carbon fiber to keep the aircraft lightweight and It seats two people.
##Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads
#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.
Uber is launching a pilot program to finance new cars. 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.##
##CEO Travis Kalanick said in a blog post#that Uber is experiencing increased demand in existing markets,
##This kind of expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system,
##Uber partner-drivers have a robust, reliable cash flow through the Uber platform every fully utilized car on the Uber system grosses over $100, 000/year.#
##Uber started out as an on-demand service for black town cars and has taken the cab industry by storm.
Users can now hail actual taxis, black cars, lower cost Uberx drivers in regular cars,
The company s success inspired a wave of startups such as Lyft, Sidecar, Instacab, and Hailo looking to improve the experience of getting from point A to point B in urban areas.
The success of these companies is predicated on the availability of cars. The whole point is on-demand convenience,
and not having enough cars on the roads is a fast way to lose customers and curb growth.
##Helping people buy cars is a smart way to get more Uberx drivers. Uber drivers can make good money
and by lowering the upfront cost of owning a car, Kalanick creates a larger pool of drivers to draw from.##
#How cars of the future will make better use of data they collect every time you drive The interior of the Tesla Model S offers a glimpse of the data-rich driving environments of tomorrow.
Cars will be big data collectors in the future. They will continuously monitoring the operation and function of the many moving parts of the vehicle and hopefully giving you a warning well in advance of pending failure.##
##In its new report,##Emerging Technologies: Big data in the Connected car,##researchers at#IHS Automotive#forecasts there will be 152 million actively connected cars on roads globally by 2020,
how many miles are left to be driven on the current tank of gas, tire pressure, and radio and entertainment usage.
Over the next few years, auto makers and suppliers will collect this datain a variety of ways:
for example, through a cell phone built into the car, Bluetooth transmissions to other devices, or when the car goes in for service.
Boyadjis#admits, ##no one knows what to do with the information at this point, ##but the eventual goal is to learn user habits to improve the interfaces of the car##for example,
how do they use the radio?####and to monitor auto systems and catch failures well in advance.
We take the car in to a shop for an oil change and some other checks while it s there and then get the bad news. Or the car just up and dies on us.
Big data sensors in cars should help eliminate any surprises.####The cr#me de la cr#me is making an autonomous car.
In the era of big data and the car, maintenance intervals don t exist any more because it s based on the condition of the car.
Right now we have diagnostic information but as they collect more and more info, that will become prognostics.
Will be we doing preventive maintenance on automobiles instead of repairs, ##said Boyadjis. There is a concern over privacy, however.
Car rental companies have used GPS SYSTEMS in their cars to#give customers a ticket #even though the police never caught them.
but feels the data belongs to car owners, who have the choice of opting into any data research and gathering.##
##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
Right now there are just too few vehicles collecting data and most tend to be higher-end cars.##
##It s a challenge of finding a business model and getting it on the market,##said Boyadjis.
#Recharging electric vehicles on the move Researchers have designed this proof-of-concept wireless charger for moving electric vehicles. A problem with electric vehicles is providing power
while the vehicles are moving. One way to extend the range of electric vehicles may be to provide power wirelessly through coils placed under the surface of a road.
But charging moving vehicles with high-power wireless chargers below them is complex.####Researchers at North carolina State university have developed a method to deliver power to moving vehicles using simple electronic components, rather than the expensive power electronics or complex sensors previously employed.
The system uses a specialized receiver that induces a burst of power only when a vehicle passes over a wireless transmitter.
Initial models indicate that placing charging coils in 10 percent of a roadway would extend the driving range of an EV from about 60 miles to 300 miles,
says#Srdjan Lukic, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at NCSU. Wireless charging through magnetic induction##the same type typically used for electric toothbrushes##is being pursued by a number of companies for consumer electronics and electric vehicles.
Such chargers work by sending current through a coil, which produces a magnetic field. When a car with its own coil is placed above the transmitter,
the magnetic field induces a flow of power that charges the batteries. Stationary inductive chargers for electric vehicles typically use sensors to ensure that the receiver coils on the vehicle are aligned above wireless charging pads correctly.
The NCSU researchers system operates without position sensors in an attempt to simplify the design
and make it more efficient. When there are no vehicles, the transmitter coil gives off a weak field.
But when a vehicle with a receiver passes by electronics in the receiver trigger a strong magnetic field
and an accompanying flow of power, says Lukic. Precisely controlling when the roadway coils produce a magnetic field is important for safety reasons;
if the field misses the car s receiving coils, it could attach to parts of the car
or attract stray objects.####Somehow we have to channel or contain the magnetic field produced by the transmitter to always be right below the receiver.
Commercial interest in wireless charging systems for moving vehicles is growing. Qualcomm is working on a##dynamic##charging system that builds off its current stationary#wireless EV charger.
and has spun out a company called Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification#to build commercial products. With the Utah system a bus could charge from coils placed under the road surface where passengers load or at traffic lights.
Dynamic wireless power transfer could also be used for robots. The techniques that the NCSU researchers used for dynamic EV charging have already been applied in some consumer electronics,
a researcher who works on wireless vehicle charging there. The new work addresses only one of the barriers of the dynamic charging,
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.
making the trek by car so they don t have to leave 200-pound Hugo behind.
but he understands his customers well enough to know he isn t the only one who hates cross-country travel by car.
like chirping birds or a passing ice-cream truck. Sound preferences can be adjusted via a circular scroll panel on the face of the device.
but now these driverless robo-cars are breaking free of their confines and heading out into the city streets.
But thanks to a new fleet of pod cars, that might just be about to change. The first few units will be deployed as early as 2015.
the Milton Keynes pod cars will run on electricity, returning to their charging stations between fares.
The pod cars are planned to run along the streets of Milton Keynes for five years as part of a pilot program.
smartphone-hailed pod cars will someday grace the streets of cities all across the world.
Volvo s quest to create the ultimate electric vehicle The battery is the biggest limitation for electric vehicles (EV.#
#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.##
##So Swedish automobile maker,#Volvo#(now owned by China s#Geely Holding#Group) decided to dispense with the battery entirely,
substituting a super capacitor made from advanced carbon fiber-based nanomaterials that can be integrated into the body panels of the vehicle.
Volvo has chosen the S80 model to demonstrate this concept. The vehicles side body, doors, hood
and roof panels are made of nanomaterial (see image below) that replaces the electric batteries used by conventional EVS.
The vehicle plugs in to initially charge and then recharges the supercapacitor panels during braking.
A single body panel like the hood can easily supply all the energy needed to run the vehicle s internal electronics.
The#Lola B12 69/E, an electric racing car that recently set a land speed record for EVS of 328 kilometers (204 miles per hour,
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when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil.
To convert that amount takes about 1 kwh of electricity, which is approximately#20 or 20 cents worth.
More than one hundred companies including startups such as Witricity and Proxybypower and giants such as Toyota (TM), Intel (INTC), Samsung,
or an electric car receives the power and starts recharging. Witricity says its system can move an impressive 3,
300 watts##enough to charge an electric car##with little efficiency loss. Says Eric Giler, the CEO of Witricity:##
as was Toyota, which is reported to have plans to test a wireless charging station for plug-in cars.
The technology has applications outside the consumer sphere as well. Witricity is working with the Pentagon to wirelessly charge those robots that disarm bombs.
and trucks, only to be discarded, thrown into landfills, and onto our streets. And most of our current bottles don degrade.
The project represents a breakthrough in the field of micro-aerial vehicles. It had previously been impossible to pack all the things needed to make a robot fly onto such a small structure and keep it lightweight.
#Instead of cars that have#no steering wheels, gas pedals, or brake pedals for drivers to control, Baidu is thinking about cars with intelligent assistants who help you drive.##
##This is actually an intelligent assistant collecting data from road situations, Baidu s Kai Yu told The next Web.
the search engine giant in the land of self-reliant independence is building a car that takes over completely.
-and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.
But a new New Frontier in humanless vehicles is now emerging, one in which Google may already be left in the dust.
#Here s why automakers want 4g technology in cars Automakers are counting on the connected car.
Today s cars are trying to replicate the smartphone experience. Touchscreen interfaces are common. Dashboard designers take UI tips from iphones,
and#automakers want to build apps for cars. Large automakers like General motors are taking the next obvious step
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,
and use it for an array of services from movies for kids in the backseat to sophisticated#GPS-on-steroids solutions.
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,
and other brands. When Co. Labs held a video chat with Abram earlier this month,
he said that the 2015 Buick Lesabre, the first GM model with 4g, debuted in June
and the company will add 4g to 30 more models by the end of the year.
New#car buyers#would be given a 3 gigabyte trial and data plans would be set up by AT&T The cheapest $5 plan offers 250 megabytes usable in a 24-hour period;
monthly plans range from $5 for 200 megabytes to $50 for 5 gigabytes a month.
The use case of cars is different than phones. 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.
GM, meanwhile, is revamping their previously 2g Onstar system to take advantage of the new data possibilities.
And then, naturally, there are the auto dealerships.##In-car 4g hotspots#are potentially lucrative businessespecially
when there s a $50 monthly fee attached. It s a safe bet to assume dealers will give the hard sell to families with young children in the backseat
or businesspeople who constantly travel by car. Beyond the obvious use cases of Netflix and#data-heavy navigation systems, 4G LTE service also means drivers can send#SMS#text messages by voice dictation,
can have their seatmates shop on Amazon while they drive, and take advantage of a whole set of use cases.
While drivers and passengers might not necessarily need#high-speed Internet#in their cars it s arrived on the market
##and it s a safe bet to say we ll see it in most new cars sooner rather than later.
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.
This enables more vehicles that are connected not to one another to run more often on the network.
but there are also those who are accustomed to being able to move about in an individual manner with cars.
Many of the demonstration renderings and footage show the cars moving through what seem to be business districts,
but in more residential areas, residents might be opposed to the cars roving past their windows and disrupting their privacy.
Instead of large vehicles that run on a schedule, Skytran s cars will be small and personal, designed for two people,
and will be summonable with a smartphone app. The system s automated nature, transit expert Joe Dignan told#BBC News,
Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones, and everything else that comes in a smart variety.
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.
The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
Brought on by development of auto-drive vehicles, this new industry will need station designers and architects, traffic-flow analyzers, command center operators,
#Electric car travels over 1, 100 miles without a recharge on a new aluminum-air battery Together the Israeli company, Phinergy,
and the aluminum giant, Alcoa Canada, demonstrated an electric vehicle (EV) capable of driving over 1, 100 miles between charges using a combination of aluminum-air and lithium-ion storage technologies.#
#The Phinergy aluminum-air battery at 100 kilograms (220 pounds) weight contained enough on board energy to allow the vehicle to travel up to 3, 000 kilometers (over 1, 860 miles.
Compare that to the best, current lithium-ion batteries in the Tesla Model S sedan.
In the case of the test car demonstrated at the#Canadian International Aluminum Conference#on Wednesday in Montreal,
To feed the chemical reaction from the aluminum-air battery drivers using a test car like this would add tap water every month
shifting through nine different classes for six hours a day, sitting in their seats. They need a different schooling experience.
#The scooter that doubles as a suitcase A Chinese private entrepreneur, He Liangcai, recently obtained a patent for a product that turns a regular suitcase into a rechargeable scooter.
Mr. He says the suitcase-scooter can carry 2 adults at once and travel as far as 37 miles in one charge
dubbing it an rban scooter. Turning a suitcase into an electric scooter up with a suitcase was no easy task.
According to local reports, Mr. He spent over 10 years to break through the technology issues, such as how to develop the right kind of wheels.
and other devices pulled along behind tractors. Planters have changed radically since they were simple boxes that pushed seeds into the soil at fixed intervals.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
While lithium ion batteries are the dominant batteries these days for laptops, cell phones and early electric cars,
Theye also relatively expensive if you need a bunch of them to power an electric car,
which is why Tesla cars are only really attainable by the wealthy right now. An all-carbon battery A battery that uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode could be safer than a lithium ion battery
While battery fires have been rare for electric car companies, Tesla, GM and others have seen all a handful of cars with punctured batteries catch on fire,
and have faced PR hiccups as a result. Thermal runaway intense, long-lasting fires caused by lithium oxide catching on fire has long been the Achillesheel of lithium ion batteries.
who developed the cathode tech used today in the Toyota prius and the Tesla Model S. Takeya splits his time between San francisco
if they want to scale up production to offer batteries to electric cars. Power Japan Plus intends to first launch batteries for the medical device and satellite industries,
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
In the immediate future, electric cars at least from dominant players Tesla and Nissan are betting on lithium ion chemistry for batteries.
But farther down the line, other types of chemistries will need to be investigated to provide power for the next generation of electric cars h
hoping to use it to beam power to buildings, cars, and dirigibles until his funding was canceled by J p morgan.
This panel will be suspended by 6-mile-long wires connected to a small bus which will house the satellite controls and communication systems.
Using a technique called gravity gradient stabilization, the bus acts as a counterweight to the huge panel.
while the bus will be tugged upward by the opposite effects. This balancing of forces will keep the satellite in a stable orbit,
Allows mechanical devices such as tractors to warn mechanics that a failure is likely to occur soon.
Intra-tractor communication can be used as a rudimentary arm swarmplatform. Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream in 2016;
tractors or agbots can procedurally apply inputs at variable rates throughout the field. Scientifically viable in 2013;
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
with the first test cars now driving around the Swedish city of Gothenburg. he test cars are now able to handle lane following, speed adaption,
Technical Specialist at Volvo Car Group. his is an important step towards our aim that the final rive Mecars will be able to drive the whole test route in highly autonomous mode.
enables the driver to hand over the driving to the vehicle, which takes care of all driving functions.
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.
These roads are typical commuter arteries, including motorway conditions and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City
of Gothenburg. The Swedish Government is endorsing the project. Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park
and the City of Gothenburg. The rive Meproject is endorsed by the Swedish Government. The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
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