Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

On Monday, PG&E announced it had filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission to build out a network of 25,000 electric car charging stations. Earlier post.) PG&E plans to have its ratepayers fund the proposed $654-million build out.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

California will be developing an investment plan for the auction proceeds from the cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. As part of this process, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) is hosting a public consultation to solicit input from stakeholders and experts on the development of the plan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2020

The software tool was developed over just six weeks by the Volkswagen Virtual Engineering Lab California, based on requests and feedback from technicians in Tennessee. It’s really a communications platform, and people can use it to share ideas quickly. Once you see an idea in AR, you really believe it. —Frantisek Zapletal.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early workstreams include: Identifying high-potential regional trucking routes in concert with changes to freight movement; Supporting the implementation of initial and future deployments outside of California; Scaling best practices in infrastructure development for fleets and communities; and.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

Volvo Trucks and Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at the University of California, Berkeley recently completed a successful demonstration of partially automated truck platooning, made possible by Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control technology ( CACC ).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2013

The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

To get to the best ideas, collaboration is critical. Our aim is to build a pipeline of new ideas from different perspectives and underrepresented voices that share our vision of using AI for human amplification and societal good. University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2022

California is at the forefront of this issue, with a statewide microplastics strategy adopted in February. The research is supported by a National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research Big Idea grant. We’re now at the point of making policy decisions that we don’t have the science for. —OSU Professor Stacey Harper.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

We have a shared vision of how people, goods and ideas will be transported in the future, as well as the safety and regulatory ecosystem that will underpin that transportation. headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Using a long-term economic forecasting model that details patterns of vehicle ownership and use across the state, the study— Driving California’s Economy —evaluated scenarios ranging from existing vehicle emissions rules to standards representing higher expectations for emerging advanced technologies. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of the US’ domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. Normally the cooled fluid would simply be reinjected underground, but the idea is to first extract the lithium from the brine before injecting it back.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Students and young professionals met on 5-6 November in Silicon Valley, California, to compete in the fifth 24-hour hackathon jointly organized by the Business Innovation Team of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Mercedes-Benz Vans and DigitalLife@Daimler. Experienced mentors were on hand to help.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2022

There are a host of challenges facing the supply chain and manufacturing industry—it’s a critical time, and we see this as a perfect opportunity for startup teams with bold ideas and solutions to accelerate the Industry 4.0 transformation. —Jim Adler, founding managing director of Toyota Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Southern California Edison has launched an online Plug-in Car Rate Assistant to help customers estimate the cost of fueling an electric vehicle and the impact on their electricity bill. The online car rate assistant will provide an idea of the bill impacts and the benefits of charging electric vehicles during off-peak hours, 9 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Phase 1 semifinalists identified an impactful idea or solution to drive down costs of lithium extraction and, ultimately, help develop environmentally friendly, domestic sources of lithium. As domestic demand increases rapidly, there is an urgent need to develop safe, secure, domestic, and cost-competitive sources of lithium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Toyota held its first media briefing and drive for the RAV4 EV ( earlier post ), due to go on sale later this year in California. Fay says that the company is planning to sell the full complement of 2,600 RAV EVs in California, plus 30,000 Prius plug-in hybrids and to introduce iQ EV urban car sharing programs to achieve ZEV compliance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2011

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) announced six winners of a national competition seeking ideas for using wireless technology to enable vehicles to communicate with each other. Earlier post.) 2011 in Orlando, Florida.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In partnership with Honda and ParkWhiz, Visa demonstrated fuel and parking proof-of-concept apps at Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona. Visa demonstrated car-based commerce as an industry-first at Mobile World Congress 2015, when it showcased how in-car payments could simplify ordering food at a quick service restaurant.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2020

Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, which allows a broad scope of proposed concepts and ideas that are best suited to improving the capabilities and commercialization potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies. million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are collaborating in the $20-million CalNex research project to examine the nexus between air pollution and climate change. How does Southern California compare and contrast with the San Francisco Bay Area? Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Teams spent the last four years (2014-2018) harnessing those ideas into the ultimate energy-efficient, high performance vehicle. For the second leg of competition, teams headed to southern California for track events, including autocross, acceleration, and consumer appeal at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

and managed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley manages the solicitation and evaluation of technologies to be tested on commercial flight vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In California, all new cars must be zero-emission vehicles beginning in 2035. The idea is to improve the material’s electronic conductivity, which is crucial to ensuring that a DRX lithium-ion battery not only has high energy density but also a high cycle life.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2017

The Chairmen of the Boards of Management of the Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands, Dr Herbert Diess and Dr Eckhard Scholz, announced the decision today at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California. The Microbus has long been part of the California lifestyle. makes its debut.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2023

Power Nearly half (49%) of shoppers rejecting the idea of buying an EV say their primary reason is a lack of charging station availability. A resounding effort to build out and improve the public charging infrastructure will emphatically increase EV purchase consideration. —Stewart Stropp, executive director of EV intelligence at J.D.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2016

A total of 65 participants were selected to develop creative ideas and code prototypes related to digitalization within 24 hours. The next Hackathon event has been planned for 5-6 November 2016 in Sunnyvale, California. Daimler held its first 24-hour Open Hackathon in Bangalore, India on 21-22 October.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2023

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, are proposing burying salted biomass in a dry environment within an engineered biolandfill as a solution to sequester carbon that has been photosynthetically fixed by cultivated plants. But ensuring the stability of the buried biomass is a challenge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Mobility Center will build on the ATOS model by providing a full life cycle suite of services from idea all the way to market. In addition to PEM, EnerTech Capital has been retained to develop a financially sustainable consortium framework with a goal of attracting global investors to the Mobility Center.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

Instead of the usual static way of evaluating new products and ideas, we can test concepts on the road immediately. The Varjo XR-1 headset and Volvo Cars’ application of the technology are being demonstrated at the Augmented Reality World Expo in Santa Clara, California. A patent has been filed for the application of the technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The contract with NASA is effectuated at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Pasadena, California, which is managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Searching for oil and gas resources has become so advanced technically over the past decade that new solutions and ideas are needed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2015

California implemented its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) starting in 2010 as part of its effort to regulate CO 2 emissions on top of the fuel blending requirements. I like the idea of letting the market decide which fuels blends to select. California, then, has become a very hard place for oil companies to do business.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2019

We all recognize and appreciate the significant contribution [outgoing CEO] David Johnson made in taking a promising but fledgling idea—an Opposed-Piston Engine—and bringing it to fruition as a proven solution that is already being adopted by major OEMs in several different applications.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Suddenly we were at The Crossroads as Ted Lieu runs for Henry Waxman’s seat in the United States Congress. “Not a one of you here ever opted into buying your energy from Southern California Edison and they’ve had 100 years of advantage as a monopoly. And it all suddenly became clear to me.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. his best friend, Steve Crocker , wrangled permission for the two to occasionally use a Bendix G-15 computer at the University of California, Los Angeles. During high school in Van Nuys, Calif.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

If you’re a regular Creative Greenius reader you know that I’ve been writing for quite a while about California’s leadership on climate, renewable energy, environmental legislation and energy efficiency issues. Harman with South Bay community leaders outside the Green Idea House home site of Robert and Monica Fortunato.

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