Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell.

Tahoe 94

Tahoe Google Installation Building 94

Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2024

Google is dominating the foundation model race Foundation models are big multipurpose models—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the foundation model that enable ChatGPT users to write code or Shakespearean sonnets. Google released the most in 2023.

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United States Industrial Industry Corporation 144

My Energi

MARCH 7, 2023

Indeed, we’ve grown rapidly from a handful of staff manufacturing products by hand in a countryside workshop, to a workforce of more than 400, operating from a state-of-the-art facility in Stallingborough, with subsidiaries opened in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia along the way. Was it possible? Was it practical?

Jordan 97

Jordan IDEA Financing Future 97

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Reformate enhances the energy content of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel; biofuels such as ethanol are fuel additives that are instead blended into a finished product to oxygenate fuel. USDA’s loan commitment to Cool Planet is being financed from the remainder of the Biorefinery Assistance Program funds authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill.

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

EV Connect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This move helps you draw in new customers, attract the best employees and build loyalty to your brand. Build Brand Loyalty Consumer attitudes have been shifting in favor of sustainably minded business for decades now, but this has quickly become a top priority in recent years. A 2020 survey by Consumer Reports showed that 71% of U.S.

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Electric Cars Market Charging Cars 62

Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Big changes at Aptera … more details ( plus official press release ) after the jump: Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010. Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010. “Aptera’s production and delivery will be tied directly to funding,&# said Wilbur.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is designed to connect the major aspects of the company’s value chain, including development, production, omni-channel commerce and services—effectively making it an operating system for the entire Mercedes-Benz business. Based on a purpose-built chip-to-cloud architecture, MB.OS The effects of MB.OS The effects of MB.OS

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Mercedes Google Connect Connected 225

Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

James Cortada The interesting thing about DASD [direct-access storage device] was IBM invented the disk drives in the mid-1950s and kept innovating that technology so fast that its product costs and what it could sell for remained very competitive for a very long time. James Cortada Timing is everything. Would IBM still be on the list today?

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Personal Companies Corporation Future 136

My Energi

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After all, if you told Lee and I when we founded the business in 2016 that we’d have employed our 400th team member, launched our fourth product, shipped our 400,000th unit and opened subsidiaries all over the world in just a few short years, we’d probably have just laughed! Was it possible? Was it practical? Really tight.

Jordan 145

Jordan Renewable IDEA Energy 145

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The government aims to begin work on a national infrastructure but expects the private sector to take the lead in building the charging networks needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. Hoon said he was looking at ways of contributing to the mayors £60m plan. My Web del.icio.us Report errors or inaccuracies: reader@guardian.co.uk

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Environment Electric Cars Cars 2009 51

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

By abstracting devices to use electricity as their fuel, we can concentrate on advancing clean electricity production techniques and have the benefits shared by everything. I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. Highly Ranked KarlW @ Apr 19th 2009 4:57PM @Elodie Yes, we know.

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Recharge Plug Electric Vehicles 2009 75

Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

In terms of the new product roadmap, there has been a lot of talk about our upcoming vehicle line in the past several weeks. We’ve updated our future vehicle lineup to accelerate the launch of new models ahead of previously mentioned start of production in the second half of 2025. When do you expect to start mass production?

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Tesla Re-Charge Future Price 89

Plug In India

APRIL 28, 2021

So PURE ’s working capital seems to be dealer financed to a large extent. On the finance front though the valid crib is about finance options for prospective buyers. PURE believes in building long term relationships with its vendors, so that all can benefit from learning curves. And so is the margin.

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Electric Motorcycles Motorcycles Dealers Electric 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

This pre-production prototype of the 2010 Aptera 2e weighs in at a mere 1,700 pounds (1,500 pounds in production trim is the goal) and has a 0.15 The initial funding has come from serious investors, including Idealab, the business incubator of entrepreneur Bill Gross, as well as google.org, the green-investments arm of Google.

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Aptera 2010 Three Wheeled i-MiEV 64

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. The electric Mini is unlikely to go into production in its present form. Is it becuase US market prefers a "home" product?

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Electric Cars Charging G-Wiz Cars 30

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

The new plug-in vehicle will be able to exceed highway speed limits, go 100 miles on a charge and recharge in four to eight hours using a 220-volt line, similar to those for clothes dryers, said Mark Perry, director of product planning for Nissan North America. We will take a look at the products and see how they meet our business needs."

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Seattle Nissan Electric Cars Cars 67

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Written by Josie Garthwaite 9 Comments Posted March 31st, 2009 at 5:00 am in Automotive Before unveiling the concept version of its Model S sedan, an $57,400 electric car that Tesla Motors wants to build using loans from the Department of Energy, the startup said the Model S battery would be designed to handle rapid charging.

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