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Volkswagen and Stanford to expand technology collaboration at "CARS"

Volkswagen is no stranger to working with Stanford University, having collaborated with the Palo Alto school on the DARPA Grand Challenge competitions for autonomous vehicles. Volkswagen also already has a technology research facility in Palo Alto. The university and automaker are now opening a new Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab on campus as part of the school of engineering and calling it the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, or CARS. Stanford professor and engineering dean James Plummer and VW Group research directors ... Read more →

Tesla to collaborate with Stanford on car-buying innovation program

Since Tesla started delivering its battery-powered Roadsters to customers in mid-2008, it has followed a different retail path from other automakers. Instead of franchised dealers, the company is ...

Stanford students think PANDA is the answer to silent EVs/hybrids

Laws and regulations to force hybrid and pure electric car makers develops vehicles that emit a noise to alert blind people to their presence are under consideration. If EVs will one day need to beep ...

Saudis invest in silicon nanowires, trying to bury battery breakthrough?

All right everyone, it's time to warm up your conspiracy theories. Back in December we reported on a potential breakthrough in battery technology from Stanford University's Professor Yi Cui. Dr. Cui ...

Battle hardened, robot-driven cars by 2030

A scientist speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco has predicted robot-driven cars that could drive humans around by the year 2030. ...



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