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Rolls-Royce 102EX Phantom experimental electric car - Axeon, now Johnson Matthey provided the battery system

Axeon Rebrands as Johnson Matthey Battery Systems

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Following its acquisition by Johnson Matthey in 2012, Axeon has now rebranded as Johnson Matthey Battery Systems. With many years’ experience of designing and producing high performance lithium-ion based systems, Johnson Matthey Battery Systems can provide a full design and assembly package. In the automotive/transport sector the business is focused on developing and producing battery […]

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Nissan EPORO Robots

Robot Technologies Filter into Nissan Safety Systems

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Nissan’s engineers have been inspired by the animal kingdom as they develop new technologies that will shape the future of mobility. One of Nissan’s longer term R&D goals is to achieve virtually zero fatalities and serious injuries among occupants of its vehicles. Toru Futami, engineering director of advanced technology and research, said that studying the

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Nissan Leaf autonomous drive

Nissan Announces Unprecedented Autonomous Drive

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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced that the company will be ready with multiple, commercially-viable Autonomous Drive vehicles by 2020. Nissan announced that the company’s engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from the world’s top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Work

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Nissan's Renewable Energy Powered Factory in Mexico

Nissan’s Green Factories use Waste and Wind to Produce Cars

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With much talk about economical vehicles, often the processes used to manufacture and build them are forgotten.  Not so at Nissan who have set out a global environmental initiative, the Nissan Green Program 2016. In an incredibly wordy sentence, the program, ‘focuses on reducing environmental impacts of corporate activities and pursuing harmony between resource consumption

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BMW i Genius Uses Artificial Intelligence to Answer Customer Queries

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In a world-first, BMW is employing artificial intelligence to promote its ground-breaking new electric cars through an automated information service for UK customers. ‘BMW i Genius’ uses specially developed software to interact with potential customers in a live question and answer format that works on a mobile platform. Users simply text in a question relating

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Volvo Cars’ new Drive-E powertrains - petrol engine

Volvo’s New Drive-E Powertrains

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The strategy of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines and driveline electrification is the path that Volvo Cars has chosen for the future. Volvo Cars’ new Drive-E range of powertrains takes efficient driving pleasure to a new dimension in which the number of cylinders is no longer important to describe power and drivability. The first three

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