Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2017

a platform for carsharing and ridesharing operators, acquired Auro, a California-based developer of autonomous vehicle technology, in an all-stock transaction. Auro partners with shuttle manufacturers to add self-driving capabilities to leading shuttle and neighborhood electric vehicle platforms. Ridecell, Inc.,

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. AllCell plans to increase production capacity for lithium-ion batteries at the company’s manufacturing facility in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. The voice-command technology isn’t ready. —David Strayer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell made the announcement at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. CT&T makes low- and mid-speed, short-distance neighborhood electric vehicles that pass crash tests required for regular passenger cars. The vehicles sell for about $12,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2019

The authors argue that advanced sensing and information technologies can be used to even greater advantage, offering the potential for far more granular assessments at the level of the individual. People from all points on the economic spectrum live in polluted areas, yet they often have different health outcomes.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Electricore is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1993 at the request of the US Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced technology. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. He predicted that the technology would ensure the continuation of Moore’s Law. for 37 years.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Hamptons-bound buses will pick up passengers at only one location in Manhattan: Hudson Yards , the neighborhood of luxury apartment buildings, stores and office towers occupied by technology companies like Meta and financial firms like BlackRock and Point 72. Operations will start just before Memorial Day weekend and run into the fall.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

iCity Project started in January 2012 when the cities of Barcelona, Genoa and Bologna started working together with other partners of the project: Abertis, CISCO, Fraunhofer Institute, Citilab and the Open University of Catalonia Foundation (UOC) and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).

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MAY 31, 2021

For instance, it could help implement the concept of the Fifteen-Minute City, which aims to reorganize physical space around walkable neighborhoods and which has become very popular during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021) “The universal visitation law of human mobility.” Schläpfer, M., O’Keeffe, K.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The research is expected to take place in part at Masdar Institute, an Abu Dhabi-based independent graduate research university, which has been part of the discussions on the scope of hydrogen research.

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JULY 24, 2012

Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. is a research and development organization focused on developing and testing advanced technology, business model and customer behavior surrounding advanced energy management systems. OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Technology Tapestry A symphony of technology and equipment orchestrates this recycling ballet. The Rising Innovation Emerging technologies emerge as stars on the horizon, but let’s not lose ourselves in the hype. Individuals become agents of transformation within their neighborhoods, collectively advancing the cause.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 19, 2023

His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. These back-and-forths lasted about five years, gradually combining science and technology.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. It plans to introduce the technology as standard in an upcoming model.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Eastern Nebraska Electric Vehicle Association (EVNEBRASKA) member Dr. Donald Cox likes to draw a comparison between electric vehicles (EVs) and the wireless phone technology he worked on at Bell Labs in the early 1970’s. “I Professor Donald Cox driving his Tesla Signature One Hundred Roadster. Sound familiar?” all available for test drives.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Charlie Mydlarz , a research assistant professor at NYU CUSP, led the sensor design efforts for the project, which involves large-scale noise monitoring, machine learning technology, big data analysis, and citizen science reporting to more effectively monitor, analyze, and respond to urban noise pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Green Car Congress had the opportunity recently to have a discussion with Mark Donaghy, the Global Marketing Manager for Valence Technology, Inc., Valence’s Saphion technology, commercially introduced in 2002, refers to the processes and materials used in developing the novel patented lithium iron magnesium phosphate cathode materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) this week will demonstrate the CMU advanced Autonomous Cadillac SRX in Washington, DC. Scheduled over two days, the demonstration will show how autonomous technology will eventually be fully integrated into vehicles that are currently on the market. 2014) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. Ritts, most recently with Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration & Production Co.,

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Seldom can we attribute inventions in digital technology to one individual or company. Competing claims about the memory stick’s origin.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The testing also demonstrates how environmental conditions, such as air temperature and human behavior, influence the performance of PHEV technologies. AVTA shares its testing results with industry and government research and development groups to aid in technology development and target setting. AVTA PHEV testing. Jim Francfort, INL.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Allborg University (Denmark) are studying a hybrid battery/ultracapacitor system for small electric vehicles. Configuration of an EV with battery pack and ultracapacitor. From Li et al.(2009) 2009) Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 31, 2023

While it was picking up steam at that point, in the years since it has morphed and been influenced by changing technology, both in vehicles and in the software that enables the service. Autonomous technology can overlay much of this as well. as well as 600 universities throughout the country.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

By combining hydraulic components, advanced control software, and brake energy recovery technology which captures more than 71% of a vehicle’s otherwise lost braking energy, RunWise reuses this stored energy, saving fuel, to power the trash truck during collection routes. OSU evaluation. Low-speed cycle. Click to enlarge. Class 4-6 trucks.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

A 2006 study, High Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US , released by the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, found that HSR lines in Europe and Japan released 30-70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometer, versus 150 grams for automobiles and 170 grams for airplanes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., The program will also use advanced communications and telematics and solar-powered charging technologies to explore future forms of personal mobility and their potential for reducing CO 2 emissions. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

To meet this challenge, many governments and organizations are investing in new technology to help lessen the use of fossil fuels. But even with recent advances in battery technology, storing electric power remains relatively expensive, especially at the scale required for heating buildings. We want to license this technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2009

This work is intended to enable market introduction of various electric vehicle technologies by lowering the cost of battery packs, batteries, and electric propulsion systems for EDVs through high-volume manufacturing. The demonstration is not limited to one (1) platform or technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said. Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Co-founder, A123Systems, Inc. John Patten, Ph.D.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. by Bill Cooke.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The collection of technologies and markets that comprise so-called. federal government's University Transportation Centers program back in 2016. They want to update the program to next-generation technology that might consider more mobility services throughout the state to address equity needs as environmental needs," noted Chow.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Hamburg (2017) “High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars: Exploiting Big Data” Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00891.

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