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Basic transportation, EV style

Electric Auto Association

Members of the new University of Texas San Antonio EAA chapter ready for go-kart competition. That was back in 2004, when his father taught him how to ride his 1980’s-vintage gas-powered version. Two years later, the family moved to San Antonio to open a second Johnny Rockets.

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GM Ventures invests in battery-electric bus company Proterra

Green Car Congress

was founded in 2004 and is currently manufacturing buses in a temporary plant in Greenville, S.C. near Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research. with additional buses to be added, and new buses and charging stations are also headed to San Antonio and Tallahassee, Fla., Proterra Inc. later this year.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S., the 2022 IEEE Medal of Honor.