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Royal Academy of Engineering Report Says EV Success Depends on Low-Carbon Electricity, Universal Broadband Provision and Smart Grids

Green Car Congress

While technical development of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is proceeding—driven by an industry than sees their potential as the future of personal transport—market success will rely on a number of infrastructural improvements and early agreement on standards and protocols, the report says.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

Green Car Congress

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Grove points to the conditions that led to the invention of the transistor, and the early days of the microprocessor --something he knows a little bit about--as the model to follow for electric car development. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It The car was powered by thousands of small lithium batteries,” Pohorsky explained. It was standing room only. Staubel Roadter intro at EAASV meeting.

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sounds good to us; driving the upcoming Chevy Volt 200 miles only to find out the cars charger plug doesnt fit the jack at the hotel sure isnt my idea of a good time. Military behind them, will they decide the world must drive the "Corvette" and by the way, why name a car after an old forsaken navel vessel from the 1930s? A Comment?

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

So that was the reason why I decided, back then in 2009, to actually move from ground robots—I was working at the time on self-driving cars—to drones. So there have been many studies that have been done for car racing, Formula One, back in the 80s and 90s. So today we don’t model— we estimate the wind.

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Peapod Comes Out on Earth Day '09 - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Arnell (whose name acronym is PEA, thus the car is named Peapod), calls a Mobi; a term he coined and branded. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Comments containing personal information such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, or addresses may be edited or removed. Got a Question?

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