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Boeing truck-mounted laser demonstrator destroys targets through wind and fog; “photons on target”, only diesel required

Green Car Congress

wind and fog), successfully targeting a variety of aerial targets at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Under windy, rainy and foggy weather conditions in Florida, these engagements were the most challenging to date with a 10-kilowatt laser on HEL MD. Lethal engagements take seconds with duration being target dependent.

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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

Green Car Congress

Alliance AutoGas Coast- to- Coast Clean Air Ride Partners and Sponsors include: Propane Education Partner: the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC); Media Partner: Bobit Business Media/Work Truck Magazine; Charity Partner: the American Lung Association of the Southeast, Inc.

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Holman Drive Meeting Focused on Corporate Mobility

Green Fleet Magazine

Holman Drive was held November 1-3 at the iconic Eden Rock Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

Teslarati

While speaking to German publication Manager Magazin , Martin Herrenknecht, the founder of Herrenknecht AG, dismissed The Boring Company, stating that Elon Musk’s TBMs were only capable of drilling 20 meters in one week. Similar tunnels could be built in Florida soon as well.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

Green Car Congress

“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Louis, and north of Florida. A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” “We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb. Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. The reason for the instant success?

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged EVs

Ignoring the “burning fuel” option as anathema to the objectives of a magazine about EVs, the remaining two options—a resistive heating element and a heat pump—are both used in EVs. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.