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Study finds GHG methane offsets its warming ~30% and precipitation increase ~60% by short-wave absorption

Green Car Congress

A new study by researchers from the University of California, Riverside and colleagues in the US and Europe has now found that methane short-wave absorption counteracts ~30% of the surface warming associated with its long-wave radiative effects. However, greenhouse gases also absorb short-wave radiation incoming from the sun.

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Hyundai and Kia license Paice’s hybrid vehicle technology, ending litigation

Green Car Congress

Paice and the Abell Foundation, a Baltimore-based non-profit organization that invested in Paice, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia in US District Court in 2012. Dr. Alex Severinsky formed Paice in 1992 with the support of the University of Maryland incubator program.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

According to Navigant Research, global revenue generated by ride-hailing services is expected to grow to almost $1.2 ” Although the carshare service model has been well established over the past 15 years, there have been some significant innovations in the market recently. as well as 600 universities throughout the country.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. cutting-edge prosthetic devices on the market. Nearly every university robotics department Spiers visits has an anthropomorphic robot hand in development.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

This campaign will demonstrate to automakers that the market is also there.” Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center.