Second Nissan Futures event focuses on autonomous driving and unveils bold uses for electric vehicle batteries…

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Nissan had autonomous little robots running around in the Barcelona registration hall of the Futures event… 

We already reported extensively about the first Nissan Futures event in London, and Nissan came in Barcelona up with an encore: this time it revealed the results of Europe’s most comprehensive study into the social and economic impact of autonomous drive.

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It amply showed how Nissan looks progressively into the future, and indeed Nissan has also further bold plans and applications of E-energy up its sleeve: Nissan and Eaton announced in expansion of their xStorage Home portfolio to include a range of six products, with pre-orders being opened in several European countries.

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The conference was held in Nissan’s Barcelona factory premises…

There is still more: xStorage Home to be complemented by xStorage Buildings as Nissan, The Mobility House and Eaton prepare to power up Amsterdam ArenA with electric vehicle batteries…

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A clever shock absorber system from Audi saves fuel and increases comfort…

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Electromechanical rotary damper, working on the rear wheels…

There is a lot of news coming from Audi: not only have they introduced recently the new Q2 and A5 range, of which we will soon tell you more, but they a also coming up with very interesting technologies. This time, they focused on the suspension front. Indeed, everybody knows that a lot of kinetic energy is being lost by the suspension of a car. So it was written in the stars that someone would come with a new technology to convert this into electric energy…

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