Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

billion annually in 2025 (outside of California), outweighing the estimated annual costs of $1.4 EPA analyzed the benefits and costs for California separately, because a number of areas in California would have longer to meet the final standards, based on their ozone levels. billion nationwide, except California.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 20, 2014

According to local newspaper, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley firms are increasingly finding that electr[.]. We knew it would be an issue sooner or later, but in the Silicon Valley where electric car uptake is far advanced, the thorny issue of charging etiquette is already rearing its ugly head. Electric cars'

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This proximity brings a greater risk of harm by higher levels of benzene , sulfuric acid , mercury , and other potentially dangerous substances. In California, studies show that households that do not own cars suffer vehicle pollution levels approximately 20 percent higher than the state average.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

1983 was the last year for those two cars, as well as for the rakish Ford Fairmont Futura coupe and its Mercury-badged sibling, the Zephyr Z-7. The original buyer of this car paid $8,244 for it in San Luis Obispo, California, which we know because the original Monroney sticker was still in the car when I found it.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. In 1855, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri created the first electromagnetic device that recorded the time of an earthquake and its movement.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

Holt supplied calibration and measurement systems used for NASA 's Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury programs, and the company's devices are still used today. Army for two years after he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. It also was a leader in measurement instruments.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 11, 2008

In meetings reminiscent of Dick Cheney's energy confabs, California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols convened energy companies and auto makers to try to save California's buckling Hydrogen Highway. Tags: fcv california air resources board fuel cell Mary Nichols arnold schwarzenegger hydrogen.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

&# may recall it was a little more complicated than that… The first five states where the Leaf will be available are: California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. The MEMS version, of course, is only a few millimeters in size, and instead of mercury, it uses a suspended block of silicon. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 1, 2007

If the governor fired Sawyer over requiring reflective auto paint, it's hard to believe he would have allowed a reinvigorated ZEV mandate that could bring plug-in hybrids and electric cars to market. who sabotaged his efforts to make those first global warming regulations stronger and more expansive.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. Porter and Norrish were about to prove him wrong. The figurative lightbulb turned on. He needed a faster light source.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. As Zadeh was pretty much entrenched at Columbia, he surprised his colleagues when he packed up in 1959 and moved to the University of California at Berkeley.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2007

From the San Jose Mercury News : The executive director of the California Air Resources Board resigned Monday, saying the governor's office had made it impossible for her to do her job by interfering with the implementation of the state's landmark global warming law.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Electric truck maker Xos to go public via $2 billion SPAC merger – North Hollywood, California-based Xos, an electric commercial vehicle maker, on Monday agreed to go public through a SPAC merger NextGen Acquisition Corp, in a deal valuing the combined entity at $2 billion. 19, via Virginia Mercury. 19, via Virginia Mercury.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Then California [the production division] wants 50,000 a week, but the manufacturer says, ‘We can’t make that. Since Commodore had just moved its engineering staff from California to Pennsylvania, communication between the design engineers and the production facilities was not very good, Ziembicki explained.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. San Jose Mercury News ). Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Batteries not ready. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids. And the Valence Technology li-ion batteries in the EDrive Systems Prius conversions include a phosphate additive that makes it nearly impossible for them to burn or explode. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. The state policy of purchasing flex-fuel cars has actually increased petroleum consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and smog in California.

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