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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Greenius Declaration of Human Rights

Creative Greenius

It doesn’t look any different in this recent Google satellite shot than it did in 1965 when the white and grey ash used to fall from the skies and cover our clothes, hair cars, trees, streets and everything else under the chimneys each buildings’ incinerators spewed their emissions out of.

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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

Green Car Congress

Karnowski recalled a vehicle-image project by Stanford University researcher Timnit Gebru that identified 22 million cars from Google Street View images, classifying them into more than 2,600 categories (such as make and model) and then correlating them with demographic data. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset?

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

The positive impact on our environment is one of the biggest and best, especially if you have a business that runs a fleet of vehicles. Are electric cars better for the environment? This is cleaner and better for the environment than producing petrol and diesel. In short, yes. EVs and the reputation of your business.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich.

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The #1 working mum’s guide to buying the perfect electric car

My Energi

to Google Play Store to purchase a digital parrot. What I do know, is how fossil fuel vehicles have contributed heavily to poor air quality in our towns and cities, damage to the environment, soil and water quality and have contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer! Tesla Model X Plaid SUV. Why did you choose a Tesla?

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