Revenge of the Electric Car
JULY 9, 2012
As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
This integrated capture and conversion process will be used to produce a number of different chemicals that could replace petroleum-derived products. Investigators will develop and demonstrate an electrochemical process using a light-harvesting CO 2 catalyst to reform CO 2 into products such as methane gas. CCS Materials, Inc.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 17, 2011
I get asked this question quite a bit: Why not take a light, aerodynamic hybrid - like a Prius - and convert it into an all-electric car?
Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2019
Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 1, 2023
The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. AI-generated content—such as a ChatGPT conversation or a DALL-E 2–generated image—can stall out from time to time as overburdened servers struggle to keep up. Even so, AI models accessed remotely can of course be slow to respond.
DIY Electric Car
OCTOBER 25, 2010
As my parts have arrived in good condition, I have progressed from selecting, purchasing to installing the electronics for my conversion (phase 3). Thinking of light material I chose 1X2 pine boards as shelving material. The flashing worked very nicely as that it is malleable, easy to cut, and light weight.
Open Source Civic EV Kit
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
I'm all ready for the long rainy winter here in Portland. While the MES pump does come on much more often, it's so quiet I can only hear it when the car is completely stopped at a light without much noise going on around me. If people are doing conversions, they're doing them to older, more "classic" cars.
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