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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

After taking solar installation classes and volunteering with GRID Alternatives for several years and learning to install racking systems, PV modules and inverters, and how to wire them up – including bending conduit – in 2015 I installed a solar PV system on my own roof with a crew of GRID experts. Installing the 5.2

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SEAT, Samsung and SAP partner on connected car technology

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The Samsung Pay platform, already deployed in South Korea and the US, will reach the European market in the coming months. In Q4 2015 SAP launched SAP Vehicles Network (SVN) in the US and Europe with Samsung Pay as a launch partner focusing on vehicle-centric services such as Connected Parking and Connected Fueling.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

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South Korea has improved its fuel economy by one third since 2003. E.g., the 2025 CAFE/GHG limits in the US would be similar to what Japan already requires for 2015. In Japan, the average driver covers only about 6,400 km, while in China, the average distance per person works out to a much shorter 1,000 km. l/100 km (52.3

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

Cars That Think

A robotic avatar A robotic avatar system is similar to virtual reality, in that both allow a person located in one place to experience and interact with a different place using technology as an interface. Pratt had led Team IHMC (and a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot) to a second-place finish at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in 2015. “I

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Berkeley Lab study forecasts China energy use will peak within 20 years; 356 million private cars by 2050

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Under CIS, China’s per capita energy use will be below South Korea and Spain in 2050 while under ERI’s base scenario, China will be well below the per capita energy use in Australia and France. By 2050, personal car ownership reaches 0.68 Appliance sales and expansion of urban areas also drive electricity demand.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The overall study area covered East-Southeast Asia and included 17 countries: China (including Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR); Taiwan; Japan; Mongolia; North Korea; South Korea; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Vietnam. Resources. A Schneider et al.

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