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The Lucid Air Dream Edition R’s first in-depth review reveals the car is a stunner

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Lucid frontman Peter Rawlinson has spent plenty of years in the electric vehicle realm, so he definitely has an idea of what goes into creating a fast, luxurious, and effective electric car. MotorTrend decided to test the range on its own terms with a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, close to 350 miles.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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As The Wall Street Journal noted in a July 2023 profile , Jenkins has played an “outsized role” in determining where federal cash can have the biggest impact, and politicos like White House clean-energy advisor John Podesta name-drop the professor and his numbers to sell their ideas. Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. His choice of subject for his master’s thesis, though, marked one of the first times he would sail against the prevailing technical winds. That idea came in July 1964.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69 grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder.

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We drove all of Lucid’s 2024 Air models and got a sneak peak at its upcoming ‘Mid-Size’ EVs

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The 2024 Lucid Air Grand Touring / Source: Scooter Doll Lucid’s 2024 Air models don’t disappoint, especially Pure On a sunny and foggy day near Half Moon Bay last week, I got a chance to take all four of the 2024 model year Lucid Airs out and open them up on winding roads and coastal straightaways.

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Chevrolet Spark EV: speedy, smooth and quiet; the importance of motor control

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The stator comprises a steel core that supports the motor winding, while intensifying and directing the magnetic fields between winding and rotor; GM uses bar wound configurations in its permanent magnet motors. In California, one of the key initial markets, the Spark EV would be a slam dunk for the hills of San Francisco.

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Hertsgaard: It's Worse Than You Think

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Environmental author Mark Hertsgaard spoke at the San Francisco Department of Environment today. Of course, he said, every effort must continue to move toward a zero-carbon economy, but we need to get our collective head around the idea that our carbon emissions have warmed up the earth, and it's going to get even warmer.