Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, DC this week, Bosch engineers were present in the technology showcase to discuss their work with MIT on developing a cell with a goal of a specific energy density of 600 Wh/kg that also achieves the requisite power, life, safety and cost to enable mass EV adoption.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy DC 186

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia. This article is adapted from excerpts of the author’s award-winning book, IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019). And so it did.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society DANIELA RUS MIT “For pioneering contributions to the design, realization, and theoretical foundations of innovative distributed, networked autonomous systems.” 2022 IEEE ERIC HERZ OUTSTANDING STAFF MEMBER AWARD Sponsor: IEEE EWELL TAN IEEE Asia-Pacific Ltd.

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Universal Belgium Cyprus Colorado 83

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As one MIT report found, on average, “a fully electric vehicle emits about 25 percent less carbon than a comparable hybrid car.” Blink is now engaged with more than 4,000 automotive dealers in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific to purchase, install, and manage EV charging equipment and services.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

An aggressive global cellulosic biofuels program could contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs, but could have significant unintended environmental consequences, according to a recent report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

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Global 2009 Carbon MIT 170

Cars That Think

JANUARY 22, 2022

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. For now, it has been geared predominantly toward use in retail signs in Asia. But this black-and-white, reflective display that always appeared to be on was invented well before the Amazon Kindle made it famous.

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Light Charging Green Production 143

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

MIT ] In this video we demonstrate fully autonomous multi-contact locomotion for our humanoid robot LOLA. Boston Dynamics ] I love watching autonomous vehicles drive through urban areas in Asia, because it's such a totally different challenge than we see in the United States.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 23, 2008

MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, but it was LG Chem subsidiary and Detroit based Compact Power, Inc. From what I’m reading, there’s a lot of battery production coming on line in the next 12 months in Asia and Europe. that got the nod. and complete the circle.

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Volt GM Batteries Battery 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

9/4/07 Nick Reilly, the President of General Motors Asia Pacific, said that GM is looking at leasing batteries for the Volt to customers, rather than asking them to pay a prohibitive price for the new technology. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). People wont buy a full car.

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