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Ideanomics and GEP unveil the EV street sweeper coming to a city near you

Teslarati

Ideanomics and Global Environmental Products (GEP) announced today that it has developed a series of zero-emissions, electric vehicle street sweepers that will soon come to New York City, cities in California, Helena, Montana, and Washington D.C. Two will go to the City of South San Francisco, three to Washington D.C.,

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Neste Oil joins aireg to promote the deployment of biofuels in aviation

Green Car Congress

Among the current 29 members of aireg are oil companies, airlines, airplane and engine manufacturers, research institutions, and universities such as Total, Lufthansa, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Technical University Munich (TUM), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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Video Friday: TurtleBot 4

Cars That Think

Our small development kit (housing an FPGA) sat on top of the robot dog guides Hopper, using Opteran See to provide 360 degrees of stabilised vision, and Opteran Sense to sense objects and avoid collisions. Dynamic sensing unlocks flexible and reliable data capture for improved site awareness, safety, and efficiency.

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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway

Baua Electric

It’s also a good idea to travel with a single-burner cooktop — electric to use inside, or propane to use at rest areas and campgrounds — and a camp mess kit so that you can safely cook meals. This keeps everything cold for a couple of days at a time.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

coalition led by electric utilities , sensing a way to gain market share through vehicles that derive 90% of their power from electricity and can recharge at night when power is plentiful and cheap, kicked off a national campaign in Washington yesterday to push auto makers to make plug-in hybrids.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

Cars That Think

But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.” And on 8 March, the Washington Post reported that the White House was taking this suggestion under serious consideration. manufacturers to help the EU rapidly expand the deployment of heat pumps. percent of what Russia provides the EU.

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