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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

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Where to locate public chargers?

Electric Auto Association

Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. Public utilities are beginning to launch EV charger rebate programs that are additive to the VW settlement grant program funds. Congress has passed a bipartisan Infrastructure bill that includes $7.5

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. X PRIZE has received a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a prize resulting in the widespread adoption of clean aviation fuel. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP).

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

Cars That Think

The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, we are a grant-making organization internally for our faculty. We’re seeing a lot of calls for regulation right now for artificial intelligence. Wald: Yeah. So what’s the current status of the AI Act?

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

Cars That Think

This was how hackers managed to burrow into thousands of government, banking, and enterprise systems as part of last year’s Solar Winds breach. One of the most promising approaches is CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), which is being explored by DARPA, Google, SRI International, and the University of Cambridge.

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2024 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor review: Better, but good enough?

Baua Electric

Even with winter tires mounted, road noise wasn’t bad until you started getting above 130 km/h or so (that’s 80 MPH for Electrek’s American readers), and wind noise, even at very high speeds, was surprisingly tame. So long as you have a Google account and a smartphone (yes, including an iPhone), setup takes under a minute.

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