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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

Cars That Think

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water.

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Will California Pioneer A World Beyond Cars This Century?

Green Car Reports

It''s almost inconceivable, the idea of a world without personally-owned automobiles. But that''s the startling vision proposed by noted researcher Tom Turrentine and colleagues, in a recent paper published online in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, entitled "California: Beyond cars?" (PDF).

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

Green Car Congress

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. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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MIT analysis finds current EVs could replace ~90% of personal vehicles now on the road based on driver’s energy consumption

Green Car Congress

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country. Chang & Jessika E.

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EV subscription company Autonomy expands California operations to Central Coast region

Teslarati

Autonomy, the electric vehicle subscription company known for its Tesla Model 3 rental fleet, has announced it has expanded its operations to the Central Coast region of California. The idea was simple: provide a subscription-based program that combines a monthly car payment, insurance, and other applicable fees into one monthly payment.

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Tesla Model S falls from cliff, gets totaled; owner walks with a scratch on his arm

Teslarati

Photos of the Model S P90D’s wreck were shared on Twitter by Tesla and electric vehicle advocate Elias Sobrino Najul , who noted in a later comment that he personally knows the person involved in the accident. Any car less safe than a Tesla might have resulted in something far worse than an arm scratch on the driver. .

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Tesla vandal shares popular anti-Elon Musk sentiment in Model 3 attack

Teslarati

During the height of the lockdowns in California last year, and as Tesla fought to open the Fremont Factory with safety precautions learned from Giga Shanghai’s lockdowns in China, CA Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzales last year. Gonzales decided to share her thoughts about Elon Musk. .”

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