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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

Cars That Think

The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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TAU developing software tool to improve bike sharing systems management

Green Car Congress

Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. The research was presented in November 2010 at the INFORMS 2010 annual meeting in Austin, Texas. — Dr. Raviv. Dr. Raviv, Prof.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Austin Energy by Hymotion, March 2007 Same as above (2 vehicles), contact mark.kapner@austinenergy.com. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Jim Tech Ltd. Contact gaussiandither@. mark.lister@.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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