Comfort

Bosch is searching for a parking space

Bosch service for drivers and parking lot operators

The perfect parking space is situated close to where a driver wants to go, offers enough space for their car – and is unoccupied. To find that parking space, however, can be extremely frustrating – especially in urban areas. In Germany, the average search for a suitable free parking space takes ten minutes. According to […]

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Fraunhofer reasearch for Efficient heating for electric cars

Heating system using conductive carbon nanotubes for electric cars

Fraunhofer researchers will exhibit the demo model of an energy-efficient heating system for electric cars at the IAA: a coated film that produces a broad, radiant heat. Electric car drivers now have one more reason to love the summer, because in the winter, the vehicle’s range declines markedly due to the additional energy demanded by

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Automated driving development at Bosch USA

Bosch joins Ko-HAF automated driving project

Bosch has joined forces with a number of other suppliers, automakers, and public-sector partners to launch the “cooperative highly automated driving” (Ko-HAF) research initiative, which aims to push forward the development of automated driving. The publicly funded project will tackle the challenges of highly-automated driving, in which drivers no longer need to be constantly vigilant.

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CONVERGE architecture principle

An open V2X architecture defined by the CONVERGE project

Over the last three years the CONVERGE research initiative, funded by the Federal Government, has concerned itself with the technical and operational framework of a V2X cooperative architecture for the communication of vehicles with the transport infrastructure, service providers and other vehicles. One priority has been the development of an access concept, which enables a

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Dynamic Parking Prediction by BMW

Dynamic Parking Prediction by BMW and INRIX

BMW is expanding its position as a premium mobility provider, with intelligent services and applications like ChargeNow, ParkNow or intermodal navigation. Now, with the Dynamic Parking Prediction research project, the BMW Group is demonstrating a solution that will in future be able to shorten the search for vacant on-street parking, particularly in cities. Together with

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