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Electric Auto Association

Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Our EAASV group had a tour of the Lightning facility in San Jose and a field trip to the company’s new location in Hollister a couple of years ago,” Pohorsky said. That was quite a conversion.”

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Schwarzenegger's Green Cred Fading with CARB Caos

Plugs and Cars

From the San Jose Mercury News : The executive director of the California Air Resources Board resigned Monday, saying the governor's office had made it impossible for her to do her job by interfering with the implementation of the state's landmark global warming law.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

Green Car Congress

County of Santa Clara will received $300,000 to purchase and install a publicly accessible compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station at a county fleet management facility in San Jose. This will reduce county fleet operating costs and facilitate the county’s purchase of new CNG buses and vehicles.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

Flexo, built in 2003. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. Next, I needed a control theory method to keep the robot balanced. There are many different ways to go, but I wanted something simple.

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How the Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity

Cars That Think

government was in the midst of splitting up the Bell System, so he left the company to work for IBM in San Jose, Calif., In 2003 he founded Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment —ASSIA, a backronym for his wife and co-founder, Assia Cioffi—to achieve the goal. degrees he pursued during paid leaves. as a research staff member.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I San Jose Mercury News ). "I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." Bloomberg News ).

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