Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

The BMW Group company is investing in an innovative method for CO 2 -free steel production developed by American startup Boston Metal ( earlier post ), through its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures. Boston Metal is commercializing molten oxide electrolysis (MOE), a patented tonnage metals production platform.

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Electrek

APRIL 24, 2023

Boston Public Schools has kicked off an ambitious new program to eventually convert its entire fleet of 750 vehicles to electric. more… The post Boston kicks off rollout of 750 electric school buses with first of the fleet transporting students appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2022

This morning, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute , to “spearhead advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics.” with more than US $400 million of initial investment from Hyundai ( Boston Dynamics’ parent company ) and BD itself to get things started.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 28, 2023

Well for one Boston man, it took two and a half years, 37 letters, and four endorsements from councilors. Matt Malloy, who lives in the Dorchester section of Boston, has an EV but didn't have a driveway. What does it take to get a home EV charger installed? After all, he was running a 50-amp cable over the sidewalk.

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Electrek

APRIL 13, 2022

Boston mayor Michelle Wu last week announced that Boston Public Schools will deploy 20 electric buses during the 2022-23 school year in a pilot program. Ultimately, Boston will electrify its entire school bus fleet by 2030. The post Boston will move to 100% electric school buses by 2030 appeared first on Electrek.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Last week, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an initial investment of over $400 million to launch the new Boston Dynamics AI Institute. If we can start by looking back a little bit—what kind of company did you want Boston Dynamics to be when you founded it in 1992? It took a while before we got back to robotics.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2021

Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! Kuindersma and Stephens: When building robots like Atlas, there's always a long list of engineering tradeoffs that shape the final design.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2019

Stop & Shop is partnering with Robomart to launch driverless grocery vehicle service in the Greater Boston area beginning in Spring 2019. Stop & Shop customers in the Boston area can summon a Robomart vehicle with a smartphone app.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

announced the successful installation of its XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System ( earlier post ) in four city-owned vans for The City of Boston. The newly converted vans support the Greenovate Boston goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. XL Hybrids, Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 13, 2021

Professionally choreographed by Monica Thomas, the 77-second video masterpiece depicts Boston Dynamics‘ Spot robots dancing in unison, punctuated by BTS vocals.

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Green Energy Consumers

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In case you missed it, the Boston Globe did an excellent story exposing how the Mass. Department of Public Utilities has been poorly managing applications of cities and towns to adopt municipal aggregation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power, Inc. —Boston-Power Chairman and Acting CEO Sonny Wu. Dr. Lampe-Onnerud founded Boston-Power in 2005 and the company has filed 150 patents. Tony Shen recently joined Boston-Power as the Chief Financial Officer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

In addition, the company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MassDOT along with the City of Boston to enable testing of self-driving vehicles on roads and public property in the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, beginning in Raymond L. million co-led by NextView Ventures and FirstMark Capital.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. By utilizing Boston-Power’s Swing Cell products, customers can realize the ease of assembly benefits of large format modules while retaining the benefits of packing density, reliability and thermal performance that come with using Boston-Power’s small form-factor battery cells.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

nuTonomy , developer of software for self-driving cars, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that authorizes nuTonomy to begin testing its growing fleet of self-driving cars on specific public streets in a designated area of Boston. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Li-ion maker Boston Power has secured US$290 million in local government financial support for the expansion of its two facilities in China. The expansion of these facilities will allow Boston Power to meet the growing demand by leading Chinese automakers in the Yangtze River Delta and throughout the Bohai Gulf in Northern China.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition to sourcing CO 2 -reduced steel, the BMW Group has also invested in an innovative method for CO 2 -free steel production developed by American startup Boston Metal, through its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures. Over the coming years, Boston Metal plans to expand the new method for steel production on an industrial scale.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Boston Public Schools will operate 11% of its bus fleet with Blue Bird propane autogas buses, starting with the 2015-2016 school year. Like many urban cities, Boston has implemented mandates for reducing tailpipe emissions. About 40% of its fleet consists of 169-inch wheelbase buses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boston-Power, Inc. Long-standing Boston-Power investors Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Asset Management (FAM) also participated. '. Boston-Power recently broke ground on its new manufacturing site in Liyang. Concurrently, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in Beijing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Boston Common Garage and Zipcar, Inc. introduced four new 2014 Honda Accord Plug-in Hybrids to Zipcar’s Boston fleet, as well as plug-in stations and priority parking for Zipcars and other hybrid vehicles at the Boston Common Garage. The charging stations were funded through a US Department of Energy grant.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2010

NASA has selected selected Boston-Power’s Swing battery system ( earlier post ) as a part of Project M—a proposed project to land an operational humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days. Boston-Power is delivering a 2.5kWh energy storage system which includes its Swing cells as well as an integrated battery management system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a third update on its investigation into the fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston on 7 January. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

and is adding Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. As previously announced, Express Drive will expand to additional markets including Boston, Baltimore and DC by the end of the year. Maven+ and Maven City are coming to Boston this summer. Maven members have driven more than one million miles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Robot is based on Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, Spot, with applied artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous navigation, teleoperation technologies, and computing payload (AI Processing Service Unit) developed by the Group’s Robotics Lab for the Robot’s usage in various industrial tasks.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc. The configurable Swing Key block is a series of interconnected Swing cells ( earlier post ) in a robust mechanical enclosure that combines the safety and performance of Boston-Power’s Swing cells with the capacity and ease of implementation of traditional large format cells. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released an update on its formal investigation of Monday’s fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston. There were no passengers or crew on board at the time. One firefighter received minor injuries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2012

Boston-Power, Inc., The two companies, which have a long-standing working relationship, project that Boston-Power’s battery systems will be used in hundreds of electric vehicles (EVs) starting in 2012 and thousands of EVs by 2014. I think Boston-Power has a chance to be one of the players that enable that dream. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Boston Metal investment. In addition to sourcing low-carbon steel, the BMW Group has also invested in an innovative method for carbon-free steel production developed by American startup Boston Metal, through its venture capital fund, BMW i Ventures. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The city of Boston this week became the first municipality in America to approve the Ford Transit Connect for taxi use, paving the way for taxi owners to purchase the new vehicle for their fleets. Boston, the 10 th largest metropolitan area in the United States, regulates which types of vehicles can be used as taxicabs in its city streets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Boston-Power, Inc., Existing Boston-Power investors Oak Investment Partners and Foundation Asset Management (FAM) also participated in the round. As part of its plans, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in China. Reorganizing. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The recently announced Saab 9-3 ePower battery-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) is using Boston Power’s Swing cells ( earlier post ) already in mass production, according to Boston-Power Founder and CEO Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud. Boston-Power uses cobalt and manganese on the cathode with graphite on the anode.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 3, 2014

In a small ceremony inside the BMW of Boston dealership, the first retail buyer of an i3 took delivery of his keyfob yesterday afternoon. As of Friday, May 2, it''s official: the 2014 BMW i3 electric car is now on sale in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2016

Cadenza Innovation , a Li-ion battery startup founded in 2012 by Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former CEO and founder of Boston Power ( earlier post ), has raised more than $5 million in growth capital.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

Li-ion battery manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc. Boston-Power has attracted $185 million in investment since being founded in 2005. Boston-Power Swing 4400. Boston-Power currently uses cobalt and manganese on the cathode with graphite on the anode. Energy density: 180 Wh/L. Volumetric density: 420 Wh/L. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Boston-Power, Inc. Protean CEO Bob Purcell is also on Boston-Power’s Board of Directors.) The BRABUS 4WD Full Electric car will represent the debut of Boston-Power’s 1.2kWh liquid-cooled module, Swing Medley. The BRABUS 4WD Full Electric. Click to enlarge.

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