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Icelanders get a sneak peek of REVENGE

Revenge of the Electric Car

Early yesterday morning in Los Angeles when it was around dinner time in Reykjavik, Iceland, Chris Paine appeared via Skype at Iceland’s annual Driving Sustainability conference.

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CEN and ETSI deliver first set of standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in Europe

Green Car Congress

Standards organizations CEN and ETSI recently confirmed , at the 6 th ETSI workshop on ITS in Berlin, that the basic set of standards for Cooperative Intelligence Transport Systems (C-ITS), as requested by the European Commission in 2009, have now been adopted and issued.

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Drone Startup to Fly Pallets Without Pilots

Cars That Think

The concept then graduated, first to a proof-of-principle venture in Iceland using multicopters, then to a well-funded Amazon project in the United Kingdom. The company’s drone is called Black Swan, a phrase often used to describe important but unpredictable events. It’s exactly the right cargo size for this business,” Rangelov says.

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EC adopts proposals for automated emergency eCall in all new cars and LDVs

Green Car Congress

The “eCall” system automatically dials 112—Europe’s single emergency number—in the event of a serious accident. —European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for Transport. It communicates the vehicle’s location to emergency services, even if the driver is unconscious or unable to make a phone call.

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American and European Standards organizations agree to strengthen transatlantic cooperation on standards for electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

The event brought together technical experts from industry, government, and other stakeholders to compare and discuss standardization priorities for electric vehicles (EVs) outlined in the October 2011 Report of the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on European Electro-Mobility and the April 2012 Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles – Version 1.0,

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

Cars That Think

Navy Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was converted into an IPR-data-collection aircraft. Top: Thomas Tesiberg; Above: Mai Bui We carried out our first real-world tests six months later, on Iceland’s Vatnajökull ice cap, thanks to the help and generosity of local collaborators at the University of Iceland and a grant from NASA.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007.

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