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GAF Energy’s new Texas factory is about to make a lot of nailable solar shingles

Baua Electric

The San Jose, California-based company is the sister company of GAF, the largest roofing and waterproofing company in North America. GAF Energy’s first factory, in San Jose, California, came online in 2021. It’s expected to employ more than 240 people. Get started here.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? You have to build the battery powertrain first, and add the fuel cell system.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

Cars That Think

San Jose, Calif. My thesis adviser was good about it; he had been spending less time around the lab lately, and Holonyak was building up a group, so he was willing to take me on.” After finding a professor with a pressure chamber he was willing to lend, Craford set up work in the basement of the materials research building.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. For over 40 years I have organized demos and exhibited EVs, especially light EVs, at in-person EVents to thousands of people.