the technology was intended originally for deployment on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle platform as part of a project to map the dynamic microbial diversity in the world oceans.
With the emergent capability to perform this sort of analysis on an autonomous underwater vehicle the device is quite adaptable to the needs of the researcher
Simultaneously, all power related output values are also available over the 2-Wire digital bus,
#The PAC1921, available in a 10-lead 3x3 mm VDFN package, was designed with the 2-Wire bus to maximize data and diagnostic reporting,
Vehicle and factory emissions have been analysed for decades in high-income countries, but haze smoke, and its impact on health, is understood not well. ot many people have investigated it
Unlike factory and vehicle emissions, wildfire smoke is regulated not by tailpipe scrubbers, catalytic converters or other pollution-mitigating applications.
#Baidu to launch self-drive car Chinese web giant Baidu will launch its first driverless car in the second half of 2015,
It had said previously it was working on such a car but did not say when it would be available.
looking instead to develop a vehicle that will retain the traditional pedals but give the driver greater freedom.
with self-driving cars seen as one of the first practical applications for the technology. Baidu's rise in the field of artificial intelligence suffered a setback last week when Stanford university
Google announced last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain view, California a
"It's kind of like a parking lot where you want to move one of the cars, but they are jammed all in,
or CARS) used to treat other cancers. The study was developed originally by Carl H. June, M d.,of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center,
BIO-X is an open innovation vehicle run by Uppsala BIO. It was established in the Stockholm-Uppsala Region of Sweden almost ten years ago to act as an independent bridge-builder between universities
treating them with a functioning version of the defective gene that is delivered in a viral delivery vehicle called a vector,
and find only the ones containing a Volkswagen bus with a flat tire, or seven oranges in a bowl.
and automatically discover unmarked vans parked outside of banks for four hours without moving. Baidu is interested in other aspects, too."
putting them on trucks, and delivering them to the courthouse, where as many as 300 attorneys would be searching them for anything relevant to the case."
He even rigged his motorcycle and car so that he could start it without a key.
If you have enabled a NFC phone like most major Android phones, you can also unlock it with an implanted device just by holding it.
Commuting apps, smart cars and smarter parking New apps and other technologies are improving the urban traffic experience.
Apps that tell commuters when the next bus passes by, or where there's someone driving who can give you a lift
Through his company, Luum, he's pushing tools like carpooling apps to increase the occupants per vehicle while lowering the total number of vehicles on the move.
Irving advocates an integrated platform that brings together automobiles, public transit, cycling and walking, with incentives to drive behaviour,
which foresees a transport network connecting vehicles, transport infrastructure and individual mobile devices. That strategy takes advantage of new-generation cars as rolling collections of sensors
to reduce congestion and prevent accidents, although Ford acknowledges it will require unprecedented co-operation across a number of sectors.
A City College of New york study of the New york city system found a two per cent increase in bus ridership through 2013
One of the dramatic developments the planners did not foresee is that total vehicle miles travelled per capita in the U s. actually began to fall in 2006"
For her, public transit, not cars, is where technology could have a transformative role. She notes that increasing vehicle occupancy helps,
but, for example, with 69 per cent of the people coming into downtown Toronto taking public transit,"At the end of the day,
He says the incremental costs are tiny for new bus fleets but these features could attract 20 to 40 per cent of people who would otherwise drive.
"he adds that interesting new things are happening all over the place, from driverless trolleys and subway trains in Copenhagen, Vancouver and elsewhere,
#EV Batteries Good, Paper EV Batteries 10x Better No matter how fast the cost of oil drops, it just can keep up with the pace of improvements in electric vehicle batteries.
but for me nothing is worse than seeing my car covered in slush and road salt.
and oil, preventing the car from getting dirty. It been proven effective against road spray, sleet, standing water,
just rolling off the car into a delicious puddle on the ground. Obviously, the ramifications of self-cleaning paint would be huge on the auto industry,
More importantly, this technology would all but put car washes out of business. Even the most efficient car washes use hundreds of gallons of water to clean a single vehicle.
That would have a tremendous impact on the environment, especially considering how access to clean water is one of the most pressing issues facing the public these days.
We may not have flying cars yet but self-cleaning cars are a good first step
#98 MPG Range-Extended Electric Metrocab Coming To London London will soon be home to 98 MPG range-extended electric Metrocabs,
thanks to Transport for London finally getting around to approving them after several years of work on the topic.
but the savings regardless of the £ to $ exchange rate will be substantial for those driving these fuel efficient vehicles over in London.
#EV Registrations In Europe Surged+60%In 2014 Electric vehicle registrations in Europe rose by more than 60.9%in 2014,
Overall, 65,199 electric cars+commercial vehicles were registered in Europe during 2014 representing a significant increase over the previous year,
which saw 42,194 electric vehicles (EV) sold. Of those 65,199 EVS registered in 2014, more than half were in just two countries Norway and France.
So, what that means, is that more than 10%of all the vehicles sold in Norway in 2014 were EVS (again, not surprising,
though with 8, 744 vehicles registered despite production limitations. Following those three was the BMW i3 (with 5
#Bridj A Popup Bus That Learns Travelers Habits Boston transportation has a new private transit app that learns the habits
or minutes in advance. download The original version of Bridj was for the Bridj bus system in Boston,
Third in the country as far as cities not dependent on owning cars for transportation, Boston is full of transit options.
Perhaps Bridj might look at electric vehicles soon. In the world of electric buses, the big name is BYD, a Zayed Future Energy Prize winner,
but probably not for electric cars, because it can be recharged enough times. Some people drive the same car for ten years,
but they usually change cell phones much more quickly. Lithium-ion batteries have become more high-profile recently because of the very notable success of the Tesla Model S
NISSAN LEAF, and other modern electric cars. A lot more electric cars are following, so it will be intriguing to see
if the advances made by the Boston startup will ever translate to electric cars n
#India Issues Draft Guidelines For 2 GW Solar PV Auction The latest draft guidelines pertain to an impending auction of 2 GW solar PV capacity, possibly within this calendar year.
The auction will be a part of the National Solar Mission, India#s landmark policy initiative to boost solar power capacity.
of which will be enough to fuel 145,000 cars annually. At a recent ceremony that hailed the plant opening,
but local officials noticed it was more important step in pushing California closer to its 2020 clean energy goals. lectricity (to power cars)
said Jim Mckinney, a project manager for CEC Alternative and Renewable fuel and Vehicle technology Program. Mckinney added that the ethanol produced at this plant results in the lowest carbon-emitting ethanol currently refined at an industrial scale throughout California.
This can make owning an electric car difficult, especially as plug-in cars become more prevalent and draw more power from the apartment in question.
Evercharge*has a solution, though, as its unique technology learns driver behavior and can dole out the power as needed to drivers,
having ten plug-in cars charging, all at the same time, could lead to an energy bottleneck that could require tens of thousands of dollars in service upgrades.
Evercharge intelligently divvies up the available energy between all the electric cars plugged into an apartment building. It also keeps track
Sure, it not the sexiest advancement in electric car technology, but with the number of plug-in cars expected to multiply exponentially,
it could become an essential component in many new apartment buildings. With so many people choosing apartment life over home ownership,
helping these residents adopt to the plug-in lifestyle will be key in spreading electric cars to the masses.
offsetting 45 million metric tons of damaging carbon emissions the equivalent of removing 10 million cars off our roads
Chris Van Hollen (MD-8; Paul Tonko (NY-20; Bill Keating (MA-9; Peter Welch (VT-At-large;
#Weirdest Biofuel Ever Powers Strangest Car Ever The folks at Columbia University have come up with a loating enginethat runs on evaporating water
Weirdest Biofuel Ever, For anything Columbia press materials sum up the strange new car in one pithy sentence:
Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
On Monday, BMW teased out word of its plans for a fuel cell electric vehicle launch in 2020.
Then we add in electric cars, which are now on the same path converting a staid, slow moving industry (traditional auto companies like GM) into a disruptive technology-driven one (innovators like Tesla).
Electric cars will accelerate the end of fossil fuels by joining with renewables to create a system shift,
will find the motor vehicle fuels market very appealing. This would then unleash a huge political and commercial driver for growth in electric cars with the utility sector providing infrastructure to use their product
locking in customers with long-term supply deals backed by renewable power and lobbying for electric cars (to also protect the grid).
Within a decade, electric cars will be more reliable, cheaper to own and more fun to drive than petrol-fueled cars.
Then it will just be a matter of turning over the fleet. Oil companies will then have their Kodak moment.
Coal will already largely be gone, replaced by renewables. The incumbents won respond in time. They are steeped in their analysis that they are the underpinning foundation of the economy
Other companies like utilities and auto companies, meanwhile, have great options like taking away a large share of the oil industry market with renewable powered electric cars.
And electric car maker Tesla, producing less than 40,000 cars per year, is valued at over half of GM, which produces 9 million cars per year!
The market can smell death and knows that fast beats slow. For climate advocates and policy makers, nothing changes in their approach,
It that competing energy products of renewables and batteries, in a system with electric vehicles, will behave as a disruptive technology always does,
The obvious example is utilities promoting electric cars as an enormous new market opportunity, which will assist them in avoiding the eath spiralthreat posed by the end of centralised generation.
and Google who are both developing battery and car opportunities, with a close eye on the technology integration opportunity.
Tech startup Aclima just announced a partnership with Google earth Outreach to equip Google street view cars with its mobile sensor platform.
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
The cars spent 750 hours of drive time gathering 150 million data points on nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon
when 40,000 vehicles hit the road but O3 levels were low because sunshine had started just its photochemical reactions.
and Street view cars, said Davida Herzl, Aclima Cofounder and CEO. ith more than half of the world population now living in cities,
The mystery test vehicle essentially a technology test bed is designed to orbit the Earth and then land like one of NASA's old shuttles.
However, experts claim that refining an advanced manoeuvring thruster is probably just a small part of the vehicle's true mission set.
otherwise known as the Orbital Test vehicle, is blasted into orbit by a rocket. However, it lands using a runway like a normal aircraft.
but does have a cargo bay similar to that of a pickup truck, which is just large enough to carry a small satellite.
The Planetary Society's revolutionary Lightsail vehicle took off on an Atlas v rocket today, and it will later unfurl its giant sail in orbit
and will allow vehicles to explore distant destinations, such as the moon and Mars, at very low cost.
In total, the core of the vehicle weighs 22lbs (10kg) and is just 11.8-inches (30cm) high and 3. 9-inches (10cm) wide-about the size of a loaf of bread.
and then think of a repetitive task that will be associated with driving the car. Once the headset has been calibrated,
and the driver can control the shoebox-sized vehicle by thinking about their repetitive task.
Researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the US demonstrated they were able to use their iris recognition technology to identify drivers from an image of their eye captured from their vehicle's side mirror.
and other everyday objects such as computers or cars could make people see the technology as useful and easy to operate.
scale buildings and even hold a car's steering wheel. CHIMP is roughly the size of a human,
and drive a vehicle through a simulated disaster zone in the DARPA Robotics Challenge final showdown-with a'mystery'round thrown in.
Climbing ladders and driving vehicles are among the obstacles robots will face in environments engineered for people.
Scroll down for video This is detailed enough to be able to see cars and even people moving around the planet
At a conference in California, the car maker unveiled its latest prototype folding electric bike called Mode:
fold to fit on a train or in the boot of a car, and with pedal assist, help riders reach speeds of up to 15mph (25km/h). They are also part of the company's wider Smart Mobility plan,
designed to make cars and other vehicles more connected. With all of its protoypes, Ford took inspiration from technology seen in cars including rear-facing ultrasonic sensors.
These sensors link with the handlebars to discreetly alert the rider when a car is about to overtake using subtle vibrations.
These handlebars also light up to make the bikes more visible to motorists. And each of the bikes works with an app called Mode:
and could'communicate'with other vehicles. Its multimodal navigation and smart routing lets riders filter journeys based on cost, time,
driving your vehicle from home to work is explained not feasible Ford.''Mode: Flex is Ford's third, most versatile ebike yet-easily reconfigurable for different customer needs.'
while stowed in the back of a car. As part of the announcement, Ford also said it is extending its Mode:
#The gas powered 3d printed supercar that can go from 0-60 in TWO seconds It can go from 0-60mph in just two seconds,
and weighs 90%less that traditional cars. According to San francisco firm Divergent Microfactories, the Blade is the first 3d printed supercar,
and is created using a series of chassis parts held together by carbon rods-rather like a giant Lego kit.
and altogether it weighs just 1400lbs-90%less than some modern cars. Scroll down for video'Society has made great strides in its awareness and adoption of cleaner and greener cars'
said Divergent Microfactories CEO Kevin Czinger.''The problem is that while these cars do now exist,
the actual manufacturing of them is anything but environmentally friendly, 'The firm says its approach incorporates 3d printing to dramatically reduce the pollution,
materials and capital costs associated with building automobiles and other large complex structures.''At Divergent Microfactories, we've found a way to make automobiles that holds the promise of radically reducing the resource use
and pollution generated by manufacturing.''It also holds the promise of making large-scale car manufacturing affordable for small teams of innovators.'
'The Blade is made using a proprietary solution called a Node: a 3d-printed aluminum joint that connects pieces of carbon fiber tubing to make up the car's chassis. This solves the problem of time
and space by cutting down on the actual amount of 3d printing required to build the chassis
In addition to dramatically reducing materials and energy use, the weight of the Node-enabled chassis is up to 90%lighter than traditional cars,
Divergent Microfactories plans to sell a limited number of high-performance vehicles that will be manufactured in its own microfactory.
allowing them to set up their own microfactories and build their own cars and, eventually, other large complex structures.
#Lexus builds car with human HEARTBEAT in connection between driver and vehicle Lexus has built a car that pulsates with light in time with the driver's heartbeat in order to display the connection between the driver and the car.
Using electroluminescent paint, Lexus have converted an RC F coupe into a on-off model they are calling the'heartbeat car'.
'Unfortunately for petrol heads, the special project is a onetime collaboration, and won't go on general sale.
and Lexus Australia, was to connect the human body to the car. Pictured, the side panels light up The model uses biometric technology to visualise the physical and emotional connection shared by man and machine when at the wheel.
was to connect the human body to the car. The car with INFRARED headlights: Ford develops smart lights...
The village where only ROBOTS drive: University launches autonomous driving test track The village where only ROBOTS drive:
Could we finally power cars with SOLAR PANELS? Nanowire...Forget the Insane Mode: Elon musk says Tesla's new...
to talking about what the car does to you emotionally,'Ben Cooper, innovation director at M&c Saatchi, told Mashable Australia.
Lexus unveil the world's first ever car with a heartbeat LEXUS RC F SPECS Unfortunately for petrol heads,
the'hearbeat car'special project is a onetime collaboration, and won't go on general sale. Here are the specs of the Lexus RC F
'From there, we looked at how we were going to take the heartbeat and express it throughout the car.'
'A wireless heartbeat monitor sends the driver's heartbeat to a control board in the rear of the car.
and uses it to trigger the electroluminescent paint to display the heartbeat in a pulsating pattern on the car's side panels.
Pictured, the car on the test track The electroluminescent paint contains phosphorescent substances that emit light
When the car is parked in the day time and the system is shut down, the car has a standard silver finish,
with its secret heart pulsing potential hidden from sight. The system is powered by a 13v battery
Professor Axel van de Walle, an engineer at Brown University, Rhode island, who led the research,
They worked out its melting point would be 474°C higher than Hf-Ta-C. Professor van de Walle and Dr Qijun Hong,
Professor van de Walle added: Melting point isn't the only property that's important in material applications.'
though imperfect method of access to homes, vehicles and even cupboards. why do we still use them?
a connected car and location and asset tracking g
#Start-up develops vitamin measurement pen A start-up has developed a noninvasive device which allows users to check 30 most important vitamins
moves their hands in the air or moves their eyes in a car heads up display or under a VR hood,
#Battery swap charges moped in 10 seconds Smartscooter from Gogoro is moped an electric that charges in under 10s
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
as distance sensors in cars. Another application is the measurement of dust particles and trace gases in environmental monitoring.
#Will car makers become internet companies? Connected vehicles will create a new business opportunity proving the internet-based mobile services to the driver.
Car manufacturers will soon be competing against technology companies to provide the online services to connected cars. Autonomous connected vehicles are seen as the first major market for so-called internet of things (Iot.
This will be an important market for IC and hardware system suppliers. But arguably the biggest market opportunity will be in the provision v of online services that support the Iot devices in the car.
Car manufacturers see this as their domain and they want a major slice of the business. But to do this they will have to compete with IT firms
and partner with software suppliers. According to chip supplier NXP: Existing automotive technologies and business models that have worked for the car industry for a century are not so well suited to a changing car market with autonomous vehicles and Iot-connected cars.
In order to address the connected vehicle opportunity it will be necessary to form cross-industry groups. This will combine car makers with electronics firms and software services suppliers.
No single sector will be able to capitalise on this market, due to its diversity and the range of technologies required.
Putting electronics management systems in cars was only the beginning. Connecting vehicles to the internet will add a far greater level of complexity to the automotive business model.
NXP believes car makers will find themselves fighting on two major battlefronts. Their core activity will be designing new forms of autonomous connected vehicles,
but to be successful in the connected vehicles market they will need to develop and sell internet based services.
Whether they are successful in doing this will determine they business growth in the years ahead.
#Raising Millions With Equity Crowdfunding Will Cost You, But How much? The recently released Regulation A is the first section of the JOBS Act that allows a company to raise capital from the general public.
By opening up private company investments to the rowd, Regulation A+promises to be a game changer for how emerging companies are funded.
he says. ou have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out.
Fire engine Red, which does marketing, technology and data solutions, was founded as a remote company in 2001.
#DOE, EEI to Boost Production, Use of Electric vehicles The Edison Electric Institute and the Department of energy announced a partnership that aims to boost the production
and use of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in the United states. DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz and EEI President Tom Kuhn signed a memorandum of understanding Monday to take several joint actions,
The initiative will total more than $90 million in 2015 with EEI member companies adding more than 800 new plug-in vehicles
and its partnering member companies to invest at least 5 percent of their annual fleet budgets in plug-in vehicles and technologies.
Ford motor company announced it would allow competitors to purchase its electrified vehicle technology patents in an effort to help accelerate industry-wide research and development of electrified vehicles
hassle-free refueling network for owners of fuel cell vehicles (FCVS). The joint project (conducted alongside the Japanese government support for hydrogen stations) will partially cover hydrogen station operating expenses incurred by infrastructure companies.
The most powerful machine is so strong that its magnetism is enough to lift a lorry.
#Google throws nearly a billion Android users under the bus refuses to patch OS vulnerability When it comes to providing security updates for previous products,
given that it threw Microsoft under the bus in December when it published the full details of a security flaw two days before Redmond patched it,
#lastic bucklinghoneycomb structures bounce right back from major impacts The concept of impact resistance likely brings to mind vehicle airbags, trampolines, helmets, kneepads,
Leiden University student Florijn dreamed of alleablecar bumpers at that time. magine a car bumper that you can program for instance
and drive a miniature car as the water evaporates please see the video on this page.
Your car uses GPS map data to tell the headlamps when to swivel. If GPS isn available,
If the car has built-in GPS, Ford says, the car will use the map data to see
when the car is about to go around a curve. It then swivels the headlamps to the right
or left to lead the driver into the curve. Ford since 2007 has had an Adaptive Front Lighting System
and Traffic Sign Recognition that turned the car headlamps up to 15 degrees as the driver turned the wheel to steer into the curve.
The two most serious threats are illuminated inside the car on an LCD display. This is Ford take on infrared night vision systems that now employ algorithms to detect people and animals,
then mask or move the elements that would shine at oncoming cars. That would give you a mostly high-beam view of the road.
but that the address entry process takes more time with far costlier car navigation c
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