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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

The data from these two broad sensor networks helped residents decide whether to wear an N95 particle mask when going outside, whether it was safe to exercise or to let children play outdoors, how long to keep the air filters running inside the house, and how far to drive to escape. These particular networks use.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

This is a well written story in the Pasadena Star News about how the utilities are gearing up for the coming plug-in vehicles. That should be in plenty of time since even the most optimistic of us (that would be me:~) don’t expect much more than a million vehicles delivered nationwide by 2012. Photo by Eric Tom).

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. EV market share went from a stratospheric 45% to escape-velocity 63%, crossing 100k on a population of barely 5M.

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