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Big AI Advances From MIT and Fujitsu

Big AI Advances From MIT and Fujitsu

Fujitsu and MIT's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines Develop AI. The results of the research collaboration between Fujitsu and CBMM are published in a paper discussing computational principles that draw inspiration from neuroscience to enable AI models to recognize unseen (out-of-distribution, OOD) data (1) that de ... Continue reading

MC JV Launches PoC Autonomous-Driving Pilot Project in Jakarta's BSD City

MC JV Launches PoC Autonomous-Driving Pilot Project in Jakarta's BSD City

Proof-of-concept (PoC) autonomous-driving pilot project in Bumi Serpong Damai(BSD) City located in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia. JICA's support comes via its second plan to assist small and medium enterprises with their efforts to grow, validate and commercialize businesses aimed at helping to achieve the UN's sustaina ... Continue reading

General Motors Inks Long-Term Supply Agreement to Scale Rare Earth Magnet Sourcing and Production in the U.S.

General Motors Inks Long-Term Supply Agreement to Scale Rare Earth Magnet Sourcing and Production in the U.S.

General Motors and MP Materials today announced the formation of a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated U.S. supply chain for rare earth magnets. Under the long-term agreement, MP Materials will supply U.S.-sourced and manufactured rare earth materials, alloy and finished magnets for the electric motor ... Continue reading

Nissan 2022 – Official What’s New

Nissan 2022 – Official What’s New

Winter 2021 What's New Welcome to Nissan 2022 – What’s New. Model year 2022 is well underway and the Nissan lineup is filling out, as is this latest update to What’s New. ... Continue reading

“REJECTED ENERGY” - The Real Culprit Behind Climate Change And How To Stop It

“REJECTED ENERGY” - The Real Culprit Behind Climate Change And How To Stop It

Energy prices and oil demand could drop to levels not seen since the late 1960’s By Thomas Quinn Founder of E-Fuel Corporation On September 4, 1882 Thomas Edison flipped the switch on the world’s first power grid system at the Pearl Street Station in the Financial District of Manhattan that was fired by coal with s ... Continue reading

2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5 300 Mile Range EV Buyers Recieve Unlimited 30 Minute Carges For Two Years

2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5 300 Mile Range EV Buyers Recieve Unlimited 30 Minute Carges For Two Years

Hyundai IONIQ 5 Electric SUV Now EPA-rated For More Than 300 Miles of Driving Range December 7 2021 Ultra-fast 800-volt multi-charging (10 to 80 percent in 18 minutes) Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) function can power small appliances, devices and even charge other EVs Driving range of more than 300 miles New E-GMP platform imp ... Continue reading

Low Coal Stockpile Causing Concerns - Brown Outs Across USA?

Low Coal Stockpile Causing Concerns - Brown Outs Across USA?

In September, the United States was at its lowest coal stockpiles since 1978 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Monthly Update and Monthly Energy Review Coal stockpiles at U.S. electric power plants totaled 80 million tons at the end of September, the lowest monthly level since March 1978. As U ... Continue reading

Toyota Covers Another Choice - To Build Battery Plant In North Carolina USA

Toyota Covers Another Choice - To Build Battery Plant In North Carolina USA

Plano Texas December 6, 2021; Reuters's David Shepardson reported that Toyota Motor Corp is announcing Monday it will build batteries at a new $1.29 billion plant in North Carolina as it moves to expand its electric vehicle efforts.The largest Japanese automaker is announcing it will locate the plant at a site in Liber ... Continue reading

Volvo Trucks Fuel Cell Power Replaces BEV - One Minute To Make You An Expert

Volvo Trucks Fuel Cell Power Replaces BEV - One Minute To Make You An Expert

Electrification of commercial vehicles plays an important role on the journey towards a carbon neutral society. Using hydrogen fuel cells to power the electric driveline will be a good option for heavy transport and demanding long-haul applications. ... Continue reading

2021 Volkswagen ID.4 First Drive - Review by Larry Nutson

2021 Volkswagen ID.4 First Drive - Review by Larry Nutson

Volkswagen’s new ID.4 went on sale in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2021. We’re now half-way through the year and total ID.4 sales tally at 5,756 units. ... Continue reading

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up November 28 - December 4, 2021;

Nutson's Weekly Auto News Wrap-up November 28 - December 4, 2021;

The past week's important, relevant, semi-secret, or snappy automotive news, opinions and insider back stories presented as expertly crafted easy-to-digest news nuggets.</i></p>. ... Continue reading

Polestar Provides Next Glimpse of Polestar 3 and Reaffirms Growth Plans

Polestar Provides Next Glimpse of Polestar 3 and Reaffirms Growth Plans

Polestar 3 electric performance SUV, which is set to launch in 2022. Polestar 3 is the company’s first SUV and will be its first vehicle to be built in the US, with production set to take place in Charleston, South Carolina. ... Continue reading

THE PRIZE: The Acclaimed TV Series About the Rise of the Oil Industry; and Our Enslavement - WATCH IT HERE

THE PRIZE: The Acclaimed TV Series About the Rise of the Oil Industry; and Our Enslavement - WATCH IT HERE

AUTO CENTRAL - March 3, 2011: Nearly 20 years ago, a young Daniel Yergin wrote "THE PRIZE: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power." It's the study of how the petroleum oil industry was founded and how it has become the chain that keeps us in bondage to gasoline. Yergin's book became the basis for a multi-part ... Continue reading

GM Doubles Down On Electric Buys A Chunk Of Battery Maker

GM Doubles Down On Electric Buys A Chunk Of Battery Maker

Will construct a factory in North America to process critical battery materials for GM’s Ultium electric vehicle platform. The joint venture will process Cathode Active Material (CAM), a key battery material that represents about 40 percent of the cost of a battery cell. ... Continue reading

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