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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

Green Car Congress

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In 1997, Willett Kempton , a professor at the University of Delaware, and Steve Letendre , a professor at Green Mountain College, in Vermont, began publishing a series of journal articles that imagined the bidirectional EV as a resource for electricity utilities. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models. The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models. That’s our product.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The idea of putting together a PC outside of IBM's development process disturbed some committee members. On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. in modern European history from Florida State University. Then disaster struck.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Nobody had an idea that this was going to be happening,” recalls Leng. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Making eVTOLs personal. But as he looked to set his craft down, he saw a wing starting to dig into his lawn. “Uh-oh, Uh-oh, this is not good,” he thought. Opener’s aircraft is as singular as its business model.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

It makes sense for organizations to focus on their core activities, so just as they outsource things like IT or building maintenance, many want to outsource the charging infrastructure for their electric fleets. So it started compelling us to look in certain areas, and we arrived at LAX [Los Angeles International Airport].