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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

Green Car Congress

Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. This led to a proposed concept of a Radial Internal Combustion Wave Rotor—the precursor to the wave disc engine. .

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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

Blink Charging

Although that vehicle was ultimately scrapped, Sexton remained committed to the concept of vehicle electrification and forged a career out of advocating for people to make the switch to EVs.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

Cars That Think

More fundamental innovations will be required before we begin to see machines with a more human-like conception of the world. In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped. by certain companies with an interest in doing so.".

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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