article thumbnail

Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

Cars That Think

Got to prove you are awake by touching the wheel, but you can buy a weight on Amazon to hang on the wheel to get round that. But now they are in San Francisco, a very difficult city with all kinds of crazy intersections. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable.

Tesla 111
article thumbnail

Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

Green Car Congress

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties.

article thumbnail

Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

article thumbnail

Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. Without connectivity, you cannot really integrate transportation with the power grid. They can actually go and buy equipment from multiple vendors, put it together and it works. It’s a must.

article thumbnail

Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There are at least a half dozen different technologies to power cars with electricity under construction. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Duh, heres our $40K volt, buy it please? They will not meet my needs.