Sentences with phrase «other vehicle technologies»

The Obama Administration sought to reduce funding for the development of fuel cell vehicles, concluding that other vehicle technologies will lead to quicker reduction in emissions in a shorter time.

Of particular interest is meeting the goals and objectives of the President Obama's EV Everywhere Grand Challenge (earlier post) to produce a wide array of plug - in electric vehicles — as well as improvements in other vehicle technologies such as powertrains, fuel, tires, and auxiliary systems.

ZF highlighted the transmission, along with other vehicle technologies, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Meanwhile, he added, the steady erosion of fuel duty yield is well known, as vehicle fuel efficiency improves and hybrid, electric and other vehicle technologies achieve significant market penetration.

Not exact matches

Transdev plans to gradually spread the technology throughout Paris and other cities that it serves, so the autonomous vehicles will be on roads along with human drivers.

The technology, which is widely available in luxury vehicles by other manufacturers, is already an option for one of Ford's European models.

«To be perfectly honest, although the GTC4 improves on the FF in many, many ways, I'm zagging when others are zigging about the car — the FF was more about driving, while the GTC4 sensibly updates the vehicle to be more organized around technology and convenience.»

«California has more manufacturers testing autonomous vehicles than any other state and today's rules continue our leadership with this emerging technology,» California Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly said in a statement.

The company has conducted drone tests before, and is weighing other uses for the technology, such as in inventory control and helping inspect planes and vehicles within hangars and warehouses.

In fact, Tesla actually made all of its technology open source in 2014, so that other car companies can use its tech to build their own electric vehicles.

What else it offers: The car may not be available for purchased, but the hydrogen fuel cell technology may make an appearance in other Toyota vehicles.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau goes behind the wheel of several autonomous vehicles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate how Delphi's new V2E (vehicle to everything) technology allows cars to communicate with each other and avoid accidents, while moving through traffic with greater ease.

I'm going to be meeting with BlackBerry and talking about the investments they've made in QNX, an additional $ 100 million, to really look at how they can adapt their software and security technologies with Ford and other vehicles and really help drive the autonomous vehicle initiatives in Canada.

Also, the autonomous car technology currently available isn't able to tell the difference between various obstacles, such as other vehicles or pedestrians

General Motors Co, Alphabet Inc, Toyota Motor Corp and many other companies are aggressively pursuing self - driving car technologies and want Congress and regulators to remove barriers to the vehicles.

«When autonomous vehicles, AI, IoT and other emerging technologies are combined with economic trends like the sharing economy, we truly see different business designs that profoundly disrupt the market,» Walker says.

As to other storage technologies, I don't see anything that can be matured for volume vehicle fielding in less than a decade or so.

MH: The bubble of the 1990s has been called a dot.com bubble, an internet bubble and other forms of technological bubble, but technology was only a vehicle for what basically was a financial bubble.

Some tracking devices work with other technologies to further secure your fleet or vehicle, such as sending an SMS and e-mail alert when the vehicle's alarm goes off, or if it travels beyond a geofence, which means that you get notified when your car goes beyond a specific area that you have set up as safe or normal.

Baidu and other autonomous driving technology developers testing vehicles on public roads in California have had to release more details as to why thei...

Tesla and scores of others from traditional automakers to technology firms are all competing for a slice of China's fast - growing new - energy vehicle market as the country looks to impose tough new tariffs to encourage production of «green» cars.

by focussing on the semiconductors and other high end technology components that are crammed into high - end, modern, connected EV's (5x the amount of a «low end» vehicle, contributing over a 1/3 of the vehicles all - in cost).

Gary: The demand and price of lithium continues to increase as we move into a new era of electric vehicles and other technology that is requiring lithium.

While other automobile manufacturers such as Ford and GM are looking to introduce their systems in fleets of taxi - style cars, Volvo will be releasing its technology directly on vehicles that can be purchased by individuals.

Other technologies like autonomous vehicles, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and the internet of things will all surely play leading roles in shaping this new era as well.

Previous positions include global chief information officer of Aon Affinity and a nearly 20 - year career with Assurant, a global provider of vehicle and other service contracts, the final six as vice president information technology and operations.

China has also introduced a plan to gain global leadership in advanced information technology, new energy vehicles and aerospace, among other industries.

Installing telematics technology into a fleet can track fuel usage, driver behavior, vehicle downtime and countless other data points that translate very easily into real dollars and cents.

With the steel bars integrated to strengthen and secure the connection with the vehicle and the safecell technology embedded in the car seat, the Britax Roundabout G4.1 is aligned to all the other excellent similar products coming from the same manufacturer.

Some private car owners may even use the technology to lend their vehicles out to other people and earn money.

One of my best features is MyKey is a new Ford safety technology — launching this summer as standard equipment on the 2010 Focus, Taurus and other popular models — that allows owners to program a key that can limit the vehicle's top speed and audio volume to encourage teens to drive safer.

This demonstration and testing will enable state officials to assess the «development of autonomous vehicle technology and to begin identifying potential impacts of such technology on safety, traffic control, traffic enforcement, emergency services, and such other areas» of importance to state officials and others charged with traffic safety.

Yanik's lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood - brain barrier — a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs or other large molecules to enter the brain through the bloodstream.

Other companies developing inductive charging systems include WiTricity, a spin - out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Nissan last year announced that it was looking into wireless charging for its electric vehicles.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

That's what bothers me most about the evolutionary path of our vehicles — and about many of the other technologies we bring into our lives under the rubric of «convenience.»

Current trends in autonomous vehicle navigation systems therefore rely not only on GPS / INS, but a suite of other sensor - based technologies such as cameras, lasers, and sonar.

«This kind of technology may work the same way if the inattentiveness is caused by texting, picking up something off the vehicle's floor or any other distraction that can lead to a dangerous situation,» Pilcher said.

They do this, however, by restricting the considered technologies to those that either maintain or improve other aspects of the vehicle's performance — particularly when it comes to acceleration time.

Solar energy programs in that office would see a major boost, receiving $ 320 million, while programs including wind, building and industrial efficiency, advanced vehicle technologies and others would also receive boosts.

«New technology may protect troops from blast - induced brain injury: Elastic frame design reduces blast acceleration up to 80 percent; technology could be adapted for vehicle bumpers, other uses.»

This year's list includes autonomous vehicles, blockchain (the technology behind BitCoin), next - generation batteries and a number of other technologies that are beginning to make their mark.

The technology developed and tested at Waterloo is much simpler and far less expensive, paving the way for its use in engines for power generation, mining vehicles, the trucking industry and a host of other applications, including the consumer automotive market.

This investment with the SFI Research Centre IPIC will enable us to combine our expertise and utilise Tyndall's state of the art facilities to develop ground breaking early stage technologies, which will not only have a huge impact on the future architecture design of large data centres, but will also improve the power and computational capacity of new consumer devices and provide robust sensing solutions in the autonomous vehicles and consumer device sectors as well as others.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.

Through our Vehicle, Bioenergy, and Fuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportationVehicle, Bioenergy, and Fuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportationvehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fuels.

Google will equip these vehicles with sensors, cameras, radar, and other technologies.

You pay so much for the vehicle, but don't get all of the technology you can with MB other vehicles.

Stay tuned for more news about this technology as it gets closer and closer to market, as other manufacturers like Volvo, Nissan, and automotive supplier Delphi are also testing similar systems for electric vehicles.

But while the Golf GTE is an impressive vehicle, it hides its technology and performance under a bushel, with little to differentiate it from the other GT models in the Golf range.