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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. These regulations were authorized by the 2002 legislation Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley). Earlier post.)

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

Cars That Think

Her seminal research on chirped-pulse amplification is the gold standard of research,” one of her award endorsers said. After spending a year apart, Strickland moved to New Jersey to join the technical staff at Princeton ’s Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and Opto-electronic Materials.

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

This would be wonderful news as AC Propulsion is the gold standard when it comes to electric drive technology. The Tesla Roadster represents the evolution of AC Propulsion’s 12 year old tzero which in 2002 pioneered the use of lithium-ion batteries (6,800 cells) demonstrating 0-60mph acceleration times in the 3.6

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