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DOE, GM, Mathworks launch EcoCAR Electric Vehicle Challenge; 15 universities selected

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University of California, Davis (Davis, CA). More than 27,000 students from 93 unique educational institutions have participated to date, seeding the industry with engineers who have helped redefine the automobile over the last three decades. Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) / Wilberforce University (Wilberforce, OH).

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Study: EVs cannot succeed without developing parallel supercharging networks

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These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. —Hemant Bhargava, a professor of technology management at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Bhargava, UC Davis Graduate School of Management; Jonas Boehm and Geoffrey G.

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UC Davis, ITDP study suggests global shift to public transport, NMT and away from cars could save $100T through 2050 and cut GHGs

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Fulton, UC Davis, examines how major changes in urban transport investments worldwide would affect urban passenger transport emissions as well as mobility by different income groups. —Lew Fulton, co-director of NextSTEPS Program at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies. The study by Michael Replogle, ITDP, and Lewis M.

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Ankai Automobile Developing Plug-in Hybrid Bus for US Market

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The state-owned Chinese vehicle maker Ankai Automobile Co. EDI was co-founded by Professor Andy Frank at UC Davis, to commercialize plug-in vehicle drivetrain components. Global Atlanta. is developing a plug-in hybrid electric bus for the US market. Ankai is working with Efficient Drivetrains Inc. Earlier post.).

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California Energy Commission awards UCLA $1.9M for research on sustainable communities; reduction in use of automobiles and VMT

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UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will serve as the lead for the center, which will be a multi-campus effort that includes UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Better land use planning and design of community systems.

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How e-fuel may just lengthen the pace of ICE cars within the electrical life

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It does no longer require automakers to change engines, gas gadget parts or emissions methods, a perception that Greg Davis, a mechanical engineering schoolteacher at one of the vital crowd’s greatest colleges for auto engineers, Kettering College, concurs with. Davis has studied choices to gas, together with hydrogen and e-fuel.

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New York trial lawyer joins Tesla’s hardcore litigation team

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He was previously a litigation counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell which describes itself as the premier firm that leading companies and financial institutions all over the world turn to for counsel on business and legal matters. .” He’s registered with the New York State Unified Court System. We’re under constant attack.

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