Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. It might seem that simply plugging in your Chevy Volt or Ford Escape before bedtime would do. By 2012, we should have made some progress on this, just in time to re-elect Obama to his second term. By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. In addition, the grid could ask for energy back from the batteries of a PHEV if the house or neighborhood need is at a high level for a short time.

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