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Swaying toward EV mobility

Electric Auto Association

EAA Treasurer is the founder of a successful car share company. Michael Peters, the CEO and cofounder of the electric vehicle (EV) car share service Sway Mobility , works with the Electric Auto Association (EAA) at the national level as treasurer, and at the local level as a ‘Lead Volunteer” for Drive Electric Northeast Ohio. “One

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UAW gears up for combat over battery assistant pay

Baua Electric

The ones crops shall be run via other joint ventures, so the UAW has to have an organizing power and cut price in the neighborhood at each and every one. Stellantis will unhidden a plant in Indiana with Samsung SDI in 2025. GM additionally has 3 extra U.S. battery crops coming with Korean companions.

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

Green Car Congress

The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

It was not just a toy; it was a useful car,” Cox said. “I Too bad the cars were no longer available by then.” Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society. Carleton Peter Dewitt Founder of Holt Instrument Laboratories Member, 92; died 9 March.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

Revenge of the Electric Car

This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. 195, Bright will be building cars that “do more with less&# , a philosophy MacCready was famous for (and the title of a wonderful biography on him). by: Michael Kanellos.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

Cars That Think

My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Now you could compete directly against your friends and family.