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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

Green Car Congress

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. Driving more than 14,000 miles, the Google cars collected 3 million measurements of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon pollutants in Oakland. —Apte et al. The study’s approach was designed to be cost-effective and easily replicated.

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How Government Incentives Help Convenience Stores Install Electric Vehicle Chargers

Blink Charging

1 million publicly accessible Level 2 charging ports at locations that include high-density neighborhoods, office buildings, and retail outlets. Through the RFID reader, drivers can also pay via Apple Pay and Google Pay. And this is where truck stops and roadside convenience stores come into play. kW of electricity.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

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In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. liter i-VTEC engine and two high-output electric motors, specially developed for this system. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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In October, the Texas attorney general accused Google of violating the state’s biometric privacy law, saying the Nest home-automation device “records—without consent—friends, children, grandparents, and guests who stop by, and then stores their voiceprints indefinitely.” Experts ultimately convinced a judge to reverse King’s guilty verdict.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Google Inc. Some of the most talked-about electric vehicles are slated to debut later this year and can travel at least 100 miles on a single charge (even if some of them run on an auxiliary gasoline engine when the battery runs low). NEV stands for neighborhood electric vehicle, which can travel at a top speed of 25 mph.

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