Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

All this could grant the ultimate, elusive wish for EV makers: Price parity with internal-combustion automobiles. billion plant in Michigan to build LFP batteries, licensing tech from China’s CATL, currently the world’s largest lithium-ion producer. This grand design, naturally, would demand an attendant burst of charger development.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Granted, there are several cities where living without a vehicle is doable, like Utrecht in the Netherlands where in 2019 48 percent of resident trips were done by cycling or London, where nearly two-thirds of all trips taken that same year were are made by walking, cycling or public transportation. For instance, recent U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

But there were also studies conducted by the University of Michigan College of Engineering suggesting that vehicles would also get heavier, ultimately leading to an increase in nationwide fuel consumption, as the government had indirectly created a profit incentive for manufacturing bigger automobiles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor. More Most Popular Most Read Most Commented Editors Picks Obama: How to get business going More Is it time to buy American Express?

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. Larry Tesler , now manager of object-oriented systems at Apple, who had graduated from Stanford, was still hanging around the campus when the university was considering buying an IBM 360 timesharing system.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion to add more than 6,000 union jobs at plants across Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, all part of Ford’s plan to up its EV sales numbers to 2 million a year, worldwide, by the end of 2026. billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71 billion for supporting charging infrastructure.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Likewise, the point of the new price targets and Buy American provisions isn’t to single out certain automakers for punishment, but rather to force all automakers to offer cheaper EVs, and to localize and clean up their supply chains. billion to GM and LG Energy Solution to build battery factories in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

A limit was imposed on emissions from the power plants, and utilities were allowed to buy and sell permits to comply. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Coverage: In 2012–50% of emissions. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Midwestern Accord covers six U.S.

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