Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 24, 2022

Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., Team CoSTAR, a collaboration between NASA’s JPL, MIT, Caltech, KAIST, and LTU, inspects the communications-node deployment system on their Husky wheeled robots [top].

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. 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. and Toronto, Ont., But Xerox resisted.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Batteries not ready. Plug-in hybrids make little sense in a car with current battery technology," he said. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

And EV straggler Honda shed a bit more light on its upcoming EVs built on GM’s Ultium battery and powertrain platform. Canoo’s 200-Mile Electric Pickup is Compact Truck With A Full-Size Bed – Canoo (GOEV), the California-based EV start-up revealed its electric pickup with an estimated 200-mile range.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus?

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