Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. —NTSB synopsis. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. One arose at General Motors , which had a strategic goal of using computer-based automation to combat growing competition from abroad.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster! EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply. The Tesla Motors roadster battery pack contains 6,831 Lithium-ion battery cells similar to those in a laptop computer.

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