Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

A 2006 study, High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US , released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30-70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes. The rise in HSR has been very rapid.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 19, 2023

His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. It resulted in a very first product, launched in 2011: MOVES, an innovative portable life support unit.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Their research partnership ran for four years. That could change soon.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., will each receive a Fit EV for testing starting in 2011. Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. Responsible for designing the transportation system for the Citadel of Masdar. Earlier post.)].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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