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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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2010
29 Nov 2010
Sunvalley's SBIR grant proposal on efficient solar system technology
Sunvalley Solar, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSOL), a leading solar power technology and solar system integration company, announces the filing for a SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grant offered by the Department of Energy (DOE).26 Nov 2010
Ioxus increases energy density by 115 % with new hybrid capacitor
Ioxus is one of only two companies worldwide with hybrid capacitor technology in general production26 Nov 2010
Congratulations! Energy harvesting has arrived!
The IDTechEx exhibition with the only co-located conference on Energy Harvesting & Storage with Wireless Sensor Networks & Real Time Locating Systems saw an unprecedented 340 people attending and 28 exhibitors.25 Nov 2010
2012 Infiniti M hybrid features audible pedestrian warning system
The new 2012 Infiniti M35h is not only the first-ever Infiniti Hybrid, it is the word's first hybrid to feature a standard audible pedestrian warning system. The new Infiniti M Hybrid is set to go on sale at Infiniti retailers nationwide in early 2011, following its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November.23 Nov 2010
Report from the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor events
Last week the second annual IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010 event opened to 340 people and 28 exhibitors, up significantly from the previous year, indicative of the rising interest in the topic. The event was co-located with the IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS conference, bringing together all those involved in these two industries.18 Nov 2010
GE announces largest single electric vehicle commitment
GE have announced that it will purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet and through its Capital Fleet Services business - the largest-ever single electric vehicle commitment.18 Nov 2010
Nextreme's new eTEG HV37 advances energy harvesting
Nextreme Thermal Solutions has announced the availability of the new eTEG(TM) HV37 thermoelectric power generator, the next entry in the high-voltage (HV) series of clean energy generators based on thin-film thermoelectrics.18 Nov 2010
Transparent material for power generating solar windows
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area.17 Nov 2010
Panasonic Invests $30 Million in Tesla
Panasonic has invested $30 million in Tesla. The investment was made through the purchase of Tesla common stock in a private placement at a price of $21.15 per share.16 Nov 2010
Solar energy from asphalt pavements
A team of engineering researchers from the University of Rhode Island is examining methods of harvesting that solar energy to melt ice, power streetlights, illuminate signs, heat buildings and potentially use it for many other purposes.16 Nov 2010
Park and Ride with diesel-electric hybrid buses
The 101 year old Warwickshire bus and coach operator Johnsons of Henley-in-Arden has confirmed an order at the Euro Bus Expo bus show in Birmingham for five Optare Versa diesel-electric hybrid buses.15 Nov 2010
Exotica at Future of Electric Vehicles Event
Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx is organiser of the "Future of Electric Vehicles" event December 7-8 in San Jose California. He says, "Our unique emphasis is on future breakthroughs in all electric vehicles. To achieve this coverage, we have five automotive giants and NASA speaking but we are also adding awesome smaller projects as well, including Hawkes Ocean Technologies which believes that submarines that fly and dive will be possible. "12 Nov 2010
New Supercabatteries
Taiyo Yuden's Hybrid LIC boasts the key features of batteries (high voltage and high energy) while maintaining the traditional characteristics of capacitors (rapid charge/discharge, high durability, safety and environmental friendliness).10 Nov 2010
Nissan introduces new ICT system for EVs
Utilized for Creation of Smart City for Future Zero-emission Society9 Nov 2010
Can Chicago go electric?
Ford taps experts to examine opportunities, challenges of electric cars8 Nov 2010
Reducing EV weight
The race is on to reduce EV weight with a ground up reappraisal of every structural material and every component and subsystem.5 Nov 2010
Suzuki develops e-Let's electric scooter
Suzuki Motor Corporation has completed a prototype of an electric scooter named the e-Let's and has begun studying its operation on public roads in Japan.4 Nov 2010
Heavy duty electric land vehicles
There are about 250 manufacturers of heavy industrial vehicles worldwide but most do not make EVs. Between them they will make about 700,000 of these vehicles in 2010.4 Nov 2010
EV land, sea and air - new journal uniquely reaches everyone in EV's
Coming this December, is a new quarterly hardcopy publication that guarantees to report and comment on what's happening in the world of electric and hybrid vehicles— well beyond the concept cars of the international auto shows.3 Nov 2010
Mitsubishi Motors start testing light commercial electric vehicles
Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. (Yamato Transport) and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that they have started field testing for parcel collection and delivery operations with the use of a prototype light commercial electric vehicle (EV) built by MMC.