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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

Kansas City EAA chapter members challenge government regulation as part of their efforts to support clean energy. You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” They’re just putting up one more barrier to make sure people keep buying gas guzzlers.”

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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

Cars That Think

“Ali Baba knew how men buy lime.”. The authors outlined two general strategies to convert human speech into a digital signal: voice-waveform digitization methods and vocoder methods. Or maybe an unscrupulous engineer had absconded with the disc after the issue arrived in Kansas City.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The stations will provide additional CNG fueling in cities and along the Interstate corridors that pass through Kansas City – East to West on I-70 and North to South on I-35. The proposed 87 alternative fuel vehicles include: 44 CNG refuse trucks, 40 heavy-duty CNG dump trucks, and three heavy-duty CNG trucks.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Vehicle manufacturers do not share that when they’re selling vehicles, so [fleet operators] are buying vehicles and as soon as winter comes around, they’re getting [only] 60 miles out of a vehicle. Or they’re saying you have to buy [up to] two electric buses to replace every diesel bus because of this battery behavior impact.