Plugs and Cars
MAY 19, 2007
Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Simply put, as the first sentence of the article states, [W]hen consumers understand what plug-in hybrids are, they want them. Wonder why?
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2010
Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. The USABC specifies two PHEV designs to guide its battery requirements: an AE-10 crossover and AE-40 mid-sized car. Units USABC MIT EPRI. Source: Axsen et al. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.
Cars That Think
APRIL 24, 2022
With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., This will take a lot of time.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 17, 2009
Powered by Share » Digg this Add to del.icio.us Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 1, 2021
MIT ] Among the first electronic mobile robots were the experimental machines of neuroscientist W. His battery-powered robots were models to test his theory that a minimum number of brain cells can control complex behavior and choice. Grey Walter. Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines.
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