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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

Within the HVAC world, innovations tend to be small and progressive: there’s not some silver bullet,” says Wade Conlan , an engineer in Maitland, Florida, and vice president of ASHRAE , a heating and air-conditioning standards-setting organization.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Louis, and north of Florida. If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. Erb was an advisor to this team from the University of Idaho, finishing in first place with this Camaro EV conversion.

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Local Motors debuts first self-driving vehicle using IBM Watson Internet of Things for Automotive

Green Car Congress

The vehicle, dubbed “Olli,” will be used on public roads locally in Washington DC, and late in 2016 in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. Passengers can also ask for recommendations on local destinations such as popular restaurants or historical sites based on analysis of personal preferences.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

About a third of its land—an area the size of Florida—is estimated to contain EO. At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. In light of those conversations, we developed a user-friendly Web application called SpotlightAI.

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Eco real estate

Electric Auto Association

Soon, this included conversations with his clients and fellow real estate agents about smart home technology, energy efficiency, and solar PV. “I An all-Tesla family Matos-Roger’s personal connection with electric vehicles (EVs) started in 2014 with the lease of a Nissan LEAF. I try to lead by example,” Matos-Rogers said. “I

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Volt Blocher

Honda S2000 EV Conversion

Dimitri, a buddy of mine from Florida who is working on his second conversion, ask what my plans were for balancing, but I had none. This looks much cooler in person but thought I'd add a shot with most of the cells now shunting. I wasn't sure what I was going to do for balancing as anything on the market is not cheap.

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