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The US gov’t is finally doing something about giant pedestrian-killing SUVs

Baua Electric

While theoretically many of the safety improvements on cars ought to help protect those outside the car (emergency braking, crumple zones, etc), statistics have shown this has not been the case. Virtually everything available today is a huge SUV. Currently, pedestrian deaths are at a 40-year high in the US.

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How Irdeto is protecting EV charging infrastructure from cyber-attacks

Charged EVs

Connecting EV charging stations to the cloud helps companies maintain reliability, provides valuable usage statistics, and enables cutting-edge features such as roaming, Plug & Charge and V2X applications. Niels Haverkorn: Roaming is available today, but it’s actually not free roaming in the sense of being standardized.

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How Irdeto is protecting EV charging infrastructure from cyber-attacks – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Connecting EV charging stations to the cloud helps companies maintain reliability, provides valuable usage statistics, and enables cutting-edge features such as roaming, Plug & Charge and V2X applications. Niels Haverkorn: Roaming is available today, but it’s actually not free roaming in the sense of being standardized.

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How the FCC Settles Radio-Spectrum Turf Wars

Cars That Think

The 6-GHz band, the lowest-frequency microwave band available today, is the only one capable of 100-kilometer hops, making it indispensable. Statistically, most would be outside the microwave antennas’ highly directional main beams, or on the wrong frequency, or shielded by buildings, terrain, and ground clutter.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

Green Car Congress

A discussion of Electrify America’s commitment to gather statistics on resulting workforce training of and employment recruitment from disadvantaged/underserved communities served by implementation of the investment plan. The charging power gap used assumptions including the battery size, charging power and range efficiency (assumed 3.5

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. The known fuel technologies available today that are being researched and developed, which we must examine, are the following: 1. Appendix D: Representative Statistics for Vehicle Driving. Statistics also verify engineering success. Statistics also verify engineering success.

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