For their cash, WMD participants will get a cut of the returns Project Cars makes when it goes on sale.
This operated like Kickstarter in that fans could hand over different amounts of cash to buy different levels of involvement in a racing game called Project Cars.
According to Emmanouil Koukoumidis, a visiting researcher at MIT who led the project, cars are responsible for 28 percent of the energy consumption and 32 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
"A capital-intensive infrastructure project aimed at cars when the focus should be on more sustainable modes of transportation, is not doing a favor to Mumbai, " said Bina Balakrishnan, a transportation and engineering consultant.
But Zap had no relationship with DaimlerChrysler and ended up delivering a total of 342 Smart Cars before the project disintegrated in lawsuits.
The University of California at San Diego, which runs a Zero Emission Vehicle Project, has 70 electric cars on order, and is putting Envision solar charging at its owned and operated parking garage.
Google: Project Glass, self-driving cars, pieces of software with charming voices that serve as personal attendants.
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Ford's revitalization is a long-term project, and with demand for cars declining, all the secret committees in the world won't guarantee its success.
The Belfast on the Move project aims to reduce the number of cars in the city, giving priority to buses, cyclists and pedestrians.
The new Pixar project depicts an America populated wholly by cars.
Which led me to thinking about these mooted driverless cars, like the Google Driverless Car project.
As executive chairman of McLaren Automotive, Dennis will lead the group's project to develop a range of pure McLaren sports cars, with the launch date for the first model set for 2011.
The sensors we use for the blind driver challenge vehicle are almost identical to the ones we use for autonomous vehicles, and we have used for this project many of the technologies we have developed for our autonomous cars for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
The cars of the future will have powerful panoptic systems to project telematic imagery across the windshield, audiophile sound systems and speech and gesture recognition.
Apart from the software developed as part of the project, it is really only the wireless network installed between the cars that set them apart from other cars available in showrooms today.
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In 2006 the steelmaker embarked on a massive investment and construction project to build blast furnaces to produce high-quality virgin steel for cars, ships and consumer durable goods for parent Hyundai Motor and other customers.
And over the next three decades, the clean energy from this plant will save 575, 000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is the equivalent of removing more than 4, 500 cars from the road each year for the life of the project.
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Since 2008, the firm's Ground Truth project has mashed together licensed data with information gathered by its own fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
But in 2006, it embarked on a massive investment and construction project to build blast furnaces which use iron ore and coking coal to produce high-quality virgin steel for cars, ships and consumer durable goods.
For the last three years, Kempton has operated a pilot project at the University of Delaware, partnering with PJM and a couple of utilities, in which seven electric cars interact with the grid and receive monthly payments.
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