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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APRIL 16, 2024

In a new video posted today, Boston Dynamics is sending off its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot. Hydraulic Atlas has certainly earned some relaxation; Boston Dynamics has been absolutely merciless with its humanoid research program. Now it’s time for our hydraulic Atlas robot to kick back and relax.” This is a robot that will be missed.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” How did this partnership happen?

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MARCH 28, 2024

At NVIDIA GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We spoke with Saunders last year about robots falling over ). It’s very, very good at walking.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot , replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. We talked with Playter about what the heck took Boston Dynamics so long to make this robot, what the vision is for Atlas as a product, all that extreme flexibility, and what comes next.

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Teslarati

APRIL 14, 2024

A Tesla Cybertruck is now on display outside of a showroom in Boston, Massachusetts, and photos and video footage of the site show that the unique electric vehicle (EV) has been drawing some crowds. The display launched on Sunday and will remain through tomorrow during the Boston Marathon. It’s attracting a decent size crowd.

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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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Electrek

MAY 22, 2023

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter has commented on Tesla Bot, Tesla’s humanoid robot project, and he says it ignited a competitive spirit at the company. more… The post Tesla Bot has got our competitive juices flowing, says Boston Dynamics CEO appeared first on Electrek.

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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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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 28, 2023

Blue Bird Corporation, the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, has delivered its first batch of 20 electric school buses to Boston Public Schools (BPS). School officials and local government leaders hail the groundbreaking pilot program as the largest electric school bus deployment in the Northeast.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Boston Dynamics are the masters of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Boston is EV-friendly, but it needs more accessible chargers, so it’s going to install hundreds of public curbside EV chargers.

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InsideEVs

MAY 10, 2024

We'll be at the Natick Mall Cars and Coffee on Sunday, May 19, before chatting EV stuff at Lucid's Boston Seaport store.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2024

My brother owns a home in Boston’s north shore and a Vermont vacation home. My guy and I have been gently prodding my brother to buy an EV. There’s a great FLO charger in White River Junction at Hampton Inn, halfway between his two homes, which offers a nice boost.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot , which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spots joints. Teaching the UMV to drive itself down stairs in sim results in a real robot that can handle stairs at any angle.

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InsideEVs

MAY 17, 2024

Join me and Tom Moloughney at the Natick Mall Cars and Coffee on Sunday, May 19, before chatting EV stuff at Lucid's Boston Seaport store.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Chatbot Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics’ Robots Dance Evan Ackerman: I’m Evan Ackerman, and welcome to ChatBot, a robotics podcast from IEEE Spectrum. Monica has worked with Boston Dynamics to choreograph some of their robot videos in which Atlas , Spot , and even Handle dance to songs like Do You Love Me? Monica Thomas: Yeah.

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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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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

JULY 31, 2023

When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company—he thought it might become a modeling and simulation company instead. Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. A paper on the work is published in the journal Chem.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2019

The award furthers MBTA efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while establishing safe and reliable transportation for the greater Boston area. MBTA is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The Xcelsior CHARGE buses offer a total capacity of 120-passengers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

The Imperium3 consortium, which is building the New York-based gigafactory, consists of Magnis Energy, Charge CCCV LLC (C4V), and Boston Energy and Innovation (BEI). Magnis direct and indirectly owns 50.86% of iM3NY. In April 2021, iM3NY received funding to support the development of iM3NY’s Lithium-ion Gigafactory in Endicott, NY.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The team of researchers from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine published their findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The authors declare no conflicts. 201905-1003LE.

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Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 1, 2024

This blog is a repost of a story that was produced by a partnership of the Boston Globe and WBUR.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

Factorial Energy, a developer of solid-state battery technology for electric vehicle (EV) applications, will establish a new advanced manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Mass. The new facility will produce Factorial’s new solid-state battery cell technology for EVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Phoenix, New York and Boston in February. Additionally, the two companies are actively discussing a potential global roll-out program beginning in Europe and Canada. The roll-out is expected to follow four phases: os Angeles, Portland and Seattle in January. The Midwest and Southeast in March. The rest of the US, excluding Alaska, in April.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

There will be a Polestar Space in Los Angeles, New York City, and two in the Bay Area this year, with additional Spaces expected to open in Boston, Denver, Texas, Washington D.C., To reserve a Polestar 2, buyers need to select the nearest Polestar Space and confirm the preferred payment method. and Florida in the first half of 2021.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A newly released study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found F-Series, America’s best-selling truck since 1977, is among the most valuable consumer goods in America and a key employment driver. A giant front trunk (frunk) on the electric F-150 adds even more cargo-carrying versatility and security to help protect and move valuable items.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

XL Fleet is a leading provider of vehicle electrification solutions for commercial and municipal fleets in North America, with more than 145 million miles driven by customers such as The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon, Yale University and the City of Boston.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. Greene was a guest lecturer for an introduction to engineering course at the Wentworth Institute of Technology , also in Boston. “If

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. —coauthor Ian Sue Wing, a researcher at Boston University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The findings confirm that cities in Europe face the same challenges as American ones, such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco, where Uber and Lyft have been shown to exacerbate pollution and congestion. That’s the right thing to do, full stop. —Yoann Le Petit, new mobility expert with T&E.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2021

In the robotics area, the Group recently signed a deal to acquire the controlling stake in Boston Dynamics to actively respond to global mega trends of aging society and digital transformation as the Group seeks to provide humanity with a higher level of experience and more value.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

BAE Systems’ Series-ER technology is powering more than 200 buses across the globe, including major cities such as Brighton, Boston and San Francisco. This also eliminates the need for cities to add costly charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Boston (164 hours lost due to congestion) and Washington D.C. Boston drivers lost up to $2,291 per year due to congestion, followed by Washington D.C. Boston was the only US representative in the top 10 most congested cities in the world. 2,161), Seattle ($1,932), Chicago ($1,920) and New York City ($1,859). Wichita, Kan.,

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