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Founded in 1998, the BMW Group Technology Office USA is located in Mountain View, California and currently employs a diverse team from multidisciplinary fields.
The office reflects the spirit of technological innovation embodied by its Silicon Valley setting, bringing together associates to work towards one common goal: the identification of new technologies and trends relevant to BMW, and their incorporation into new products as quickly as possible.
The Mountain View team works to ensure that BMW remains at the forefront of global trends and technology. The researchers and developers concentrate preliminary on Sustainability and Digitalization. That includes but isn't limited to future mobility concepts, smart grid and smart home, battery technology and powertrain topics, as well as sensor technologies, Big Data and machine learning, user experience concepts and highly automated driving.
The offices are easily accessible via the Bay Shore Freeway and are less than a mile from the water and green spaces of Shoreline Park.
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2017
24 Jul 2017
CIKONI
CIKONI provides services for lightweight design innovation with a specific focus on fibre composite material. Dr Richard Collins interviewed Dr Farbod Nezami (Co-Founder).14 Jul 2017
Energy Independent Electric Vehicles: Big Companies & New Technologies
EIVs are an idea whose time has come.14 Jul 2017
Probably the most performant in-wheel powered car in history
Elaphe decided to put this to the test and raced it against its original diesel counterpart. They also tried something new to showcase the raw torque performance of Elaphe in-wheel technology and raced against a production electric car. In reverse.13 Jul 2017
Immersion vs. Fitbit: Everything you need to know in 7 charts
Earlier this week, Immersion Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Fitbit. This is in addition to an existing lawsuit they have against Apple, also relating to the infringement of their patents in haptics, user interfaces and human-machine interfaces. In this article, James Hayward describes the background to these lawsuits within the broader context of the haptics industry.12 Jul 2017
Amber, the Dutch self driving startup
Amber, a Dutch self-driving startup, has stated that it would be the first in the world to deploy self-driving cars on a large scale.26 Jun 2017
BMW Group's Dingolfing plant has a new, highly responsive assistant
An LBR iiwa lightweight robot from KUKA primarily takes over monotonous and physically demanding tasks.9 Jun 2017
Vattenfall and BMW Group conclude supply contract for batteries
Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year.5 Jun 2017
BMW electric scooter concept link
he Concept Link, which BMW Motorrad recently unveiled, has electric drive, zero emissions and full connectivity, the concept vehicle is not just a means of transportation, but also a means of communication.31 May 2017
Innogy CEO on EV progress
The future has no exhaust pipe. If we want to achieve our climate protection objectives, we will also need a transformation of the transport sector in addition to the transformation of the energy market, since year upon year we go through tonnes of CO2 in road transport.26 May 2017
Shell on the future of transport
What happens in the transport sector, which accounts for more than a quarter of total world energy use, will be critical to progress in the ongoing energy transition.24 May 2017
Runaway Adoption of Pure Electric Vehicles: Multiple Triggers
It has long been speculated that electric vehicle adoption may have a sudden tipping point of adoption. IDTechEx pointed out that incentives help as does reaching lower cost of ownership but lower up-front price is the killer blow.22 May 2017
Unintended Consequences Advance Electric Car Takeoff
Obvious things drive adoption of a new type of car such as subsidies, tax breaks and special privileges such as free parking.18 May 2017
Delphi joins BMW consortium to develop self-driving cars
The BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye have announced their intention to onboard Delphi as a development partner and system integrator for their State-of-the-Art autonomous driving platform.26 Apr 2017
Desktop Metal emerges from stealth mode offering two metal printers
After nearly 2 years of closely guarded secrecy, Desktop Metal emerged from stealth mode to unveil their hotly anticipated metal 3D printers.26 Apr 2017
Audi
25 Apr 2017
Far-UK
Far-UK are a material and process manufacturing developer. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Lyndon Sanders (Director and General Manager).17 Apr 2017
4.25 Million funding for battery and autonomous vehicle research
Business Secretary Greg Clark and Transport Minister John Hayes have announced a range of research funding which included a total of £4.25 million for a high energy battery research project, and an autonomous vehicle research project at WMG at the University of Warwick.13 Apr 2017
Germany EV laggard to leader
Germany took a wrong course in vehicle powertrains initially resisting government support for electric vehicles, but many German industrial and commercial vehicle manufacturers are now going electric.10 Apr 2017
New approach may accelerate design of high-power batteries
Research promises to increase the performance of high-power electrical storage devices, such as car batteries.4 Apr 2017
Solid-state electrolytes and the quest for a safer battery
2016 was the year of Li-ion batteries' silver jubilee, a coming of age that has not been hassle-free, as Samsung's Firegate showed us. This year might mark the first significant switch to new materials in the electrolyte compartment, with both large and small companies trying to bring inorganic and polymer electrolytes to commercial fruition.