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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Roboticist, Google Brain. Did he think they were applauding because finally the world will have a humanoid robot that can lift a pipe in a car factory? Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences, Tesla: IROS 2022 is coming up in a few weeks!

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

Cars That Think

In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. When a version was leaked ahead of a major conference, things got ugly.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Car buyers were less enthusiastic. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. per barrel.

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