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Winter EV Conversion Workshop

Electric Cars are for Girls

If you're in the San Diego area, and would like to attend an EV conversion workshop. The Kick Gas Car Club is offering a series of evening classes, starting in January, on converting a small pickup to electric. Class size is limited to 8 people. Follow the link for more information or to grab a seat.

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Racing the Tesla Cybertruck to Market — Converting a Mitsubishi Pajero

CleanTechnica EVs

In his Aladdin’s cave of engineering treasure in his Brisbane workshop, he has a multitude of vehicles […]. Francisco is an accomplished engineer, so when he realised that there was no vehicle in the Australian market that could do what he wanted, he decided to build one. He is now racing the Tesla Cybertruck to market.

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NRC workshop to focus on advances in catalysis needed to exploit feedstock changes driven by shale gas

Green Car Congress

The Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) of the National Research Council (NRC) will host an interactive, multidisciplinary public workshop scheduled for May 2016 that will focus on identifying gaps and opportunities in catalysis research in an era of shifting feedstocks from crude oil to natural gas for chemical production.

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Vienna transit operator orders 60 Mercedes-Benz e-Citaro electric buses

Green Car Congress

By the end of 2025, Wiener Linien will convert nine of its more than 100 routes to operation with the all-electric eCitaro. A photovoltaic system on the roof will supply electricity and the waste heat from the chargers will be used to heat the workshop building. The buses will be charged, maintained and repaired there.

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ARPA-E holding workshop on increasing efficiency of light collection and bioconversion to liquid fuels

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E will hold a workshop on “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today’s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture” on 2 December 2010, in Arlington, Va. Summaries of the workshop will be provided on the ARPA-E website shortly following the events.

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DOE to Host Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy is planning to hold the 2009 Thermoelectrics Applications Workshop 29 September to 2 October in San Diego, CA. The workshop will have Key Principal Investigators summarize their work. The DOE Vehicle Technologies (VT) Program has been supporting the development and application thermoelectrics in vehicles.

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NNL and DNV partner to explore large-scale nuclear production of hydrogen for UK gas network

Green Car Congress

Converting national and regional natural gas networks to hydrogen could be a powerful decarbonization solution by distributing the gas to millions of individual users across the country, where it can be burnt without releasing carbon dioxide.

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