Cars That Think
MARCH 24, 2022
Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Her sister Judy is a successful tech entrepreneur, and her other sister, Margo, is a medical doctor. In 2006 Estrin expanded her research to digital health monitoring.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.
Green Cars News
JULY 12, 2009
It will be a case of ’sweet home Alabama’ for Yang Rong, a Chinese automobile tycoon who is preparing to launch a plan to make clean-tech cars in the United States. Tags: Green cars Latest news Alabama Brilliance China Automotive Holdings clean-tech cars Yang Rong.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. The event was hosted at eBay Inc.,
Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 27, 2007
Michael Kanellos over at CNetNews.com reports from the recent Clean-Tech Investor Summit that Tesla Motors will be selling its battery packs to other electric car companies. I drove a 2001 Ford Th!nk First in line appears to be Th!nk nk Global of Norway with its ready-for-manufacture Th!nk nk Global. A Tesla-powered Th!nk
Cars That Think
MARCH 26, 2023
Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Consider: Electricity consumption in the state of California remained essentially flat from 1980 even as the economic output of the state skyrocketed.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 3, 2021
The story of Pixar doesn't start with its founding—a tech company's story rarely does. Because California is a community-property state, George effectively lost half his fortune overnight. In the airport limo on our return trip to California, we came up with a Hail Mary—go to Steve Jobs. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
65 
Let's personalize your content