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Ideanomics and GEP unveil the EV street sweeper coming to a city near you

Teslarati

Ideanomics and Global Environmental Products (GEP) announced today that it has developed a series of zero-emissions, electric vehicle street sweepers that will soon come to New York City, cities in California, Helena, Montana, and Washington D.C. Two will go to the City of South San Francisco, three to Washington D.C.,

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UPS, NYSERDA project to convert UPS diesel delivery trucks to electric; UES 225 kW switched reluctance motor

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UPS and Unique Electric Solutions LLC (UES LLC) will design, build, test and make the conversions. If successful, the Bronx-based project is expected to bring a production version of the converted truck to the streets of New York City by Spring 2018. Click to enlarge.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. But any look at our total energy use, its growth, and centrality to modern life argue for building as many different sources of renewable energy as possible.

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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

Cars That Think

Tandon School of Engineering is on the eve of launching a new robotics initiative that promises to take a unique approach to both research and teaching as engineering and academic disciplines, and build upon decades of robotics at the school. New York City is a unique setting that's not available anywhere else in the U.S.,

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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As a retrocomputing nerd, when I saw early last year that the Galaksija was being reissued as a complete kit through Crowd Supply , I placed an order on general principles. Figuring it was plain sailing from there, I canceled my Crowd Supply kit order and set off on my own.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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How charge management can reduce OpEx and CapEx for EV fleet projects

Charged EVs

A useful CMS is a software solution that can provide load management, load balancing and even dynamic load management, which is a situation where the chargers are on the same meter as a building load, and we’re actually monitoring the building load and adjusting the charge limit based on the building load.

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