Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2011
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2011
A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The study was carried out at the MIT Industrial Performance Center and involved faculty and students from nine MIT departments. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
MIT spin-out ClearMotion , Inc., an automotive technology company developing a “digital chassis”, announced a $100-million Series C preferred stock financing led by clients advised by J.P. Self-driving functionality mandates a future in which cars afford not just driving pleasure, but the utility of a mobile office.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 3, 2021
That kind of computing power was not affordable in the mid-1970s. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. George has never really understood who we are, and he can no longer afford us. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983. Ross Perot.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 11, 2021
He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. James Cortada Timing is everything. Years ago, IBM would be at the top of that list.
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Hybrids are a proven winner, but a series-hybrid (range extended EV), such as the Volt takes things to a much higher level with existing and "mostly" affordable tech.
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