Green Car Congress
APRIL 26, 2011
GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2015
Potentially unsafe mental distractions for drivers can persist for as long as 27 seconds after dialing, changing music or sending a text using voice commands, according to a pair of new studies for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety by University of Utah researchers. It’s better not to use them when you are driving. —David Strayer.
Cars That Think
JUNE 27, 2022
It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Their research partnership ran for four years. That could change soon.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The sensor itself is not going to prevent a neighborhood from flooding," she said. However, the challenge is not just deploying a sensor network in a city, but also getting the buy-in and cooperation of city officials to make it work and develop a framework for actionable use of the data.
Electric Auto Association
SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
Right now, my neighbor to the left is buying a Tesla, my neighbor on the right is buying a Tesla, and the guy down the street already has one.” “To In fact, half the folks in our neighborhood are using electric lawn equipment now. If I were to leave this earth, what kind of a dent in the universe did I make?
Plug In Partners
JUNE 12, 2006
The new law instructs the state to buy plug-in hybrids on a preferred basis when they become available and also it encourages Minnesota State University at Mankato to develop a flex-fueled hybrid. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
This situation is not true universally. Xcel president Chris Clark told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four or five families buying EVs noticeably affects the transformer load in a neighborhood, with a family buying an EV “adding another half of their house.”
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