Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2022
These high-flying, low-tech aircraft are already in use for surveillance, hovering at 18,000 to 27,000 meters to track drug runners. As a bonus, the tech onboard the balloons runs on solar power. Compared to Starlink’s sky-cluttering swarms of tiny satellites, San Francisco–based Astranis’s plans may seem old school.
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Friday November 22, 2013 Today I met a San Francisco cop. We chatted while he finished charging his LEAF at the recently installed Quick Charger at the new Market Street Whole Foods in San Francisco. Bill lives a good 60 miles from San Francisco, so he needs to get some juice to make his trip home after work.
Cars That Think
APRIL 23, 2022
The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. What’s NeXT?
Cars That Think
MAY 17, 2023
It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And it’s really cheap.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The overall impression we took away was of riding in a very expensive, very high-tech automotive running shoe. Volvo’s first EV.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
From low-tech tools such as screwdrivers and wrenches to digital constructs like computer operating systems, interoperability is critical, and the lack of it is often a roadblock to the adoption of new technologies. We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Carbon trading vs t. Remember its PURE D.C.
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