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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it’s going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Boston Metal, an MIT spin-off working to commercialize molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) for emissions-free metals and alloys production, announced that Vale and Energy Impact Partners have joined its Series B fundraising, closely following a $50M close announced in January. —Tadeu Carneiro, Chairman and CEO of Boston Metal.

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MARCH 12, 2021

The BMW Group company is investing in an innovative method for CO 2 -free steel production developed by American startup Boston Metal ( earlier post ), through its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures. Boston Metal is commercializing molten oxide electrolysis (MOE), a patented tonnage metals production platform.

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Electrek

MAY 22, 2023

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter has commented on Tesla Bot, Tesla’s humanoid robot project, and he says it ignited a competitive spirit at the company. more… The post Tesla Bot has got our competitive juices flowing, says Boston Dynamics CEO appeared first on Electrek.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Blue Bird Corporation, the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, has delivered its first batch of 20 electric school buses to Boston Public Schools (BPS). School officials and local government leaders hail the groundbreaking pilot program as the largest electric school bus deployment in the Northeast.

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APRIL 13, 2022

Boston mayor Michelle Wu last week announced that Boston Public Schools will deploy 20 electric buses during the 2022-23 school year in a pilot program. Ultimately, Boston will electrify its entire school bus fleet by 2030. The post Boston will move to 100% electric school buses by 2030 appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2022

This morning, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute , to “spearhead advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics.” with more than US $400 million of initial investment from Hyundai ( Boston Dynamics’ parent company ) and BD itself to get things started.

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JULY 31, 2023

When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo: Itselectric Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it’s going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers. I’ve had to use my credit card to get into a parking garage in Boston to fast charge, and it’s a real pain.) They can then plug and charge at any Itselectric charger in Boston and beyond.

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Electrek

APRIL 24, 2023

Boston Public Schools has kicked off an ambitious new program to eventually convert its entire fleet of 750 vehicles to electric. more… The post Boston kicks off rollout of 750 electric school buses with first of the fleet transporting students appeared first on Electrek.

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APRIL 1, 2024

This blog is a repost of a story that was produced by a partnership of the Boston Globe and WBUR.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Stop & Shop is partnering with Robomart to launch driverless grocery vehicle service in the Greater Boston area beginning in Spring 2019. Stop & Shop customers in the Boston area can summon a Robomart vehicle with a smartphone app.

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APRIL 28, 2023

Well for one Boston man, it took two and a half years, 37 letters, and four endorsements from councilors. Matt Malloy, who lives in the Dorchester section of Boston, has an EV but didn't have a driveway. What does it take to get a home EV charger installed? After all, he was running a 50-amp cable over the sidewalk.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! Kuindersma and Stephens: When building robots like Atlas, there's always a long list of engineering tradeoffs that shape the final design.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

announced the successful installation of its XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System ( earlier post ) in four city-owned vans for The City of Boston. The newly converted vans support the Greenovate Boston goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. XL Hybrids, Inc.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene was a guest lecturer for an introduction to engineering course at the Wentworth Institute of Technology , also in Boston. “If

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power, Inc. —Boston-Power Chairman and Acting CEO Sonny Wu. Dr. Lampe-Onnerud founded Boston-Power in 2005 and the company has filed 150 patents. Tony Shen recently joined Boston-Power as the Chief Financial Officer.

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JULY 13, 2021

Professionally choreographed by Monica Thomas, the 77-second video masterpiece depicts Boston Dynamics‘ Spot robots dancing in unison, punctuated by BTS vocals.

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JUNE 23, 2017

In addition, the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MassDOT along with the City of Boston to enable testing of self-driving vehicles on roads and public property in the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, beginning in Raymond L. million co-led by NextView Ventures and FirstMark Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. By utilizing Boston-Power’s Swing Cell products, customers can realize the ease of assembly benefits of large format modules while retaining the benefits of packing density, reliability and thermal performance that come with using Boston-Power’s small form-factor battery cells.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

In case you missed it, the Boston Globe did an excellent story exposing how the Mass. Department of Public Utilities has been poorly managing applications of cities and towns to adopt municipal aggregation.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Li-ion maker Boston Power has secured US$290 million in local government financial support for the expansion of its two facilities in China. The expansion of these facilities will allow Boston Power to meet the growing demand by leading Chinese automakers in the Yangtze River Delta and throughout the Bohai Gulf in Northern China.

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MAY 16, 2017

Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

nuTonomy , developer of software for self-driving cars, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that authorizes nuTonomy to begin testing its growing fleet of self-driving cars on specific public streets in a designated area of Boston. Earlier post.).

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MAY 21, 2015

Boston Public Schools will operate 11% of its bus fleet with Blue Bird propane autogas buses, starting with the 2015-2016 school year. Like many urban cities, Boston has implemented mandates for reducing tailpipe emissions. About 40% of its fleet consists of 169-inch wheelbase buses.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 17, 2024

Legacy automakers are still losing thousands of dollars on many EV sales, according to newly published analysis from the Boston Consulting Group.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boston-Power, Inc. Long-standing Boston-Power investors Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Asset Management (FAM) also participated. '. Boston-Power recently broke ground on its new manufacturing site in Liyang. Concurrently, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in Beijing.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Boston Common Garage and Zipcar, Inc. introduced four new 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrids to Zipcar’s Boston fleet, as well as plug-in stations and priority parking for Zipcars and other hybrid vehicles at the Boston Common Garage. The charging stations were funded through a US Department of Energy grant.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

NASA has selected selected Boston-Power’s Swing battery system ( earlier post ) as a part of Project M—a proposed project to land an operational humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. Boston-Power is delivering a 2.5kWh energy storage system which includes its Swing cells as well as an integrated battery management system.

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MAY 19, 2016

and is adding Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. As previously announced, Express Drive will expand to additional markets including Boston, Baltimore and DC by the end of the year. Maven+ and Maven City are coming to Boston this summer. Maven members have driven more than one million miles.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc. The configurable Swing Key block is a series of interconnected Swing cells ( earlier post ) in a robust mechanical enclosure that combines the safety and performance of Boston-Power’s Swing cells with the capacity and ease of implementation of traditional large format cells. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a third update on its investigation into the fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston on 7 January. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released an update on its formal investigation of Monday’s fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston. There were no passengers or crew on board at the time. One firefighter received minor injuries.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Boston-Power, Inc., The two companies, which have a long-standing working relationship, project that Boston-Power’s battery systems will be used in hundreds of electric vehicles (EVs) starting in 2012 and thousands of EVs by 2014. I think Boston-Power has a chance to be one of the players that enable that dream. Earlier post.).

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Electrek

APRIL 4, 2024

Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round.

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