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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

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BMW’s ReachNow installing Light & Charge locations in Seattle; 100 chargers at 20 new public sites

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BMW had presented a prototype system in 2014. It also was awarded the first LEED gold building certification in any zoo across the country. ReachNow has more than 50,000 members and is available in Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn. The sensor bus also provides edge-computing power for other connected devices nearby.

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UC Riverside team developing nav system that uses signals of opportunity; support for autonomous vehicles

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Led by Zak Kassas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, the team presented its research at the 2016 Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS+), in Portland, Ore., in September.

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Columbus, Ohio wins $40M DOT Smart City Challenge; $10M more from Vulcan, $90M from private partners

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These partnerships illustrated the private-sector enthusiasm to help build an inclusive transportation system of the future. In addition, these seven cities were able to leverage US DOT’s $40 million grant to raise approximately $500 million more in funding—a vast majority of which comes from a diverse group of more than 150 partners.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. The first, a solo effort by Rebecca Rapple of Portland, Ore., IEEE Spectrum corresponded with two finalists that have very different visions. Those AIs, in so many words, are not AGI.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; These exhaust gases pass through a boiler which transfers heat to the working fluid, which vaporizes to high-temperature steam and builds up pressure. engine brake thermal efficiency.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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Whitestone Power and Communications (Delta Junction, Alaska) will conduct in-water testing and evaluation of a River In-Stream Energy Conversion (RISEC) device that has been designed to overcome the unique challenges presented by Alaskan river environments. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $337,000. Total Project Value: $4,809,000.

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