Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2022

my research group ’s clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco in hopes of pioneering a faster method. University of California, San Francisco. All of these sensory prosthetics take information from the outside world and convert it into electrical signals that feed into the brain’s processing centers.

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APRIL 17, 2017

We are using solar energy captured by the plant to convert the leaf’s starch reserves into more energy-dense oil molecules, which significantly increases the energy value of the vegetative tissue where the oil accumulates. 2015.00164. Allan Green, “Biomass Oils: Game-changing new technology for biofuels and bioproducts ” ( presentation ).

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JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue also announced plans to start flying with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in mid-2020 on flights from San Francisco International Airport. The fuel is fully compatible with the existing jet engine technology and fuel distribution infrastructure when blended with fossil jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. The system ingests, converts, and computes real-time sensor data in preparation for streaming to various analytics tools and visual interfaces.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Dr. Nielsen’s current research work includes investigating, in collaboration with BSES , the potential of using genetically engineered sugarcane as a “green factory” for production of bulk and fine chemicals such as polymers, enzymes and high value metabolites. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

At first, I thought they were the Blue Angels F-18s because San Francisco Fleet Week was coming up soon, but it turned out to be the F-16s of the USAF Thunderbirds practicing for the next day's California Capital Airshow. If this is the original engine, it's a 2.0-liter liter rated at 111 horsepower and 122 pound-feet.

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Qnovo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Sony converted their ideas into the first commercial lithium-ion battery product in 1991. The award shines the light on the contributions of thousands of scientists and engineers who have diligently worked in the past decades to make lithium-ion batteries ubiquitous in our lives. courtesy: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So a friend-group that included a computer science major from China, an AI-focused management science and engineering (MSE) major from Russia, and a business-oriented MSE major from Venezuela isn't an anomaly. And we scattered around the Bay Area, to San Francisco, Pleasanton, as well as Palo Alto, and we were keeping in touch online.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

Pyrolysis—thermal decomposition of large molecules by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C—can be used to convert biomass into a more energy dense—and thus more economically transportable—liquid: bio-oil. During the process, phenols undergo a variety of reactions and are converted into ketones.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota showcased both its latest fuel cell vehicle concept (the FCV Concept, earlier post ), showing what the four-door mid-size sedan will look like in Radiant Blue; and the camouflage-taped engineering prototype used for extensive and extreme on-road testing in North America for more than a year. —Bob Carter. —Bob Carter.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 8, 2023

Jo De Boeck , chief strategy officer and executive vice president at the Belgium-based nanoelectronics R&D center imec , explained a proposed R&D structure and its likely impact to engineers at the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) last month in San Francisco.

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MARCH 21, 2012

The E-Golf pilot program will take place in the Detroit Metro, San Francisco, and Washington DC markets, beginning in April. In addition to testing the vehicle itself, users will also test specific services designed for the E-Golf. For example, 220-volt charging stations will be installed at the employees’ homes to charge the vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. Solazyme, headquartered in San Francisco, produces a blended fuel made from microalgae and other renewable feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

“cold fusion”) to process an energy release from an electrolytic cell operating at low temperature and that could be competitive with a Li-ion battery or a fuel cell—at the 239 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, which began Sunday in San Francisco. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

One of SDG&E’s converted PHEVs. The third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles showed that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared with standard hybrid-electric and gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Still, this story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

This scenic town, located 30 miles south of San Francisco, sits on the Pacific Ocean and is known for its annual Pumpkin Festival , and the giant waves at Mavericks. turbocharged inline six-cylinder gasoline engine was mated to a 48-volt mild hybrid system, producing 429 hp and 384 lb.-ft. Lexus LC 500 Convertible.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re going to go to, let’s say, San Francisco-Los Angeles round trip, you’re going to make three or four round trips per day, and every trip is going to be substantially depleting your battery to the maximum capacity. Biological organisms are not great at converting sunlight into energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2012

Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. In 2009, Levandowski used an autonomous vehicle to deliver a pizza through the streets of San Francisco. by Bill Cooke.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual By KATIE HAFNER New York Times Published: September 14, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — The ambitious founders of Google , the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. Some managers like to take control, and though that may be good for mundane engineers, it isn’t good if you are self-motivated.” No one tried to control us,” said one.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study by two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that building and operating a high-speed passenger ferry solely powered by hydrogen fuel cells within the context of the San Francisco Bay is technically feasible, with full regulatory acceptance as well as the requisite associated hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The A3 e-tron can cruise at up to 80 mph in all-electric mode; a spec we confirmed—with enjoyment—last week during a media drive in the San Francisco Bay Area. The car is tightly engineered, and drives, as one would expect, like an Audi. We have a clutch that engages and connects the two, that gets the engine going.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Solar panels convert solar radiation to power linearly, in proportion to the amount of sunlight.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The electric drive will make its debut at Daimler Truck, supplemented by a DC/DC converter and the vehicle control unit from Bosch for the drivetrain. tons, this ensures superior driving performance in every situation—including in hilly cities such as Tokyo, Rome, or San Francisco. Even at a vehicle weight of 8.5

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The EPA rates fuel economy, when using the hybrid gasoline-only engine at 30 miles per gallon. The regenerative braking system, which recharges the 16-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery, converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. An engine for the long haul. San Diego to San Francisco?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

CSP technologies concentrate the sun’s energy and capture that energy as heat, which then drives an engine or turbine to produce electrical power. SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. – San Francisco, CA – up to $3.1 SkyFuel, Inc. Albuquerque, NM – up to $4.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. The average peak electric demand for a house in San Francisco is 1.8 In other words, adding an electric vehicle at 220 is like adding another home to the network or to the system, and that would be a home in the San Ramon area. —Peter Darbee.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. ISB EPA 07 200hp EGR diesel engine and an Eaton hybrid-electric system featuring lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.

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Green Cars News

JULY 16, 2009

Internal combustion engines, hybrid electrics or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles - which would you choose? That’s the verdict of the third phase of a SDG&E multi-year in-use study on plug-ins - SDG&E is a public utility that services San Diego and southern Orange counties.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The BMW ActiveE ( earlier post ) will be available for lease in the metropolitan markets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York and Boston as well as the state of Connecticut beginning in Fall 2011 for $499 per month for 24 months with a down payment $2,250. BMW ActiveE. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

The Pacifica runs on a gas engine–and two electric motors. Regenerative braking converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. San Diego to San Francisco? Keep in mind this is a 5,010-pound aerodynamic shoe box getting this stellar fuel economy. Charlotte to Orlando? Yep, all on one tank.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 21, 2023

Lucid has engineered the Air Touring to be an excellent long road tourer, hence the name. Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Lucid says one is coming soon.

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MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Third-party and DIY converters can't muck with every system on a car. What is possible?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

The fuel cells provide DC power, which must be conditioned, converted and inverted to provide bus DC and AC power, respectively. Also, fuel cells are electrical devices, and as such, they offer a faster power response than internal combustion engines. Earlier post.).

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