Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Chevrolet is investing in clean energy efficiency initiatives of US colleges and universities through its voluntary carbon-reduction initiative. Such funding enables universities to reduce their impact and save money on utility bills while engaging and educating students in their efforts. Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2013

According to the latest status report on the progress of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA-LCFS) ( earlier post ), regulated parties in the LCFS—oil producers, importers and other fuel providers—continued to exceed the required reductions in carbon intensity specified by the standard. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2012

The report, “Fuel Economy Focus: Perspectives on 2020 Industry Implications,” evaluates the impact that meeting the proposed fuel economy/GHG standards would have on the car industry in the year 2020. billion dollars in 2020 under the standards, with the industry as a whole likely to see a 5.3% Click to enlarge. billion in 2020.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Except for Teslas, universal mount chargers are compatible with almost any current electric car. To use Tesla’s unique charging connector, you’ll need to buy an SAE J1772 adaptor separately. The HSC-40 can produce up to 32 amps and comes with a 25-foot cord as standard.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Sales of EVs have been increasing rapidly over the last year – the government says that sales of zero-emission cars are up 89% compared to 2020, and in the last three months nearly 1 in 4 new cars sold had a plug – however there is still a long way to go to get all motorists to buy an EV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

Lignin already has a variety of industrial uses because of its chemical characteristics, energy content and its abundance; yet its potential as a marine diesel fuel is a relatively uncharted area, says Peter Normark Sørensen, with Mærsk Oil Trading, the Mærsk Group’s oil buying arm. Progression Industry. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

Robert Sparrow, Monash University For consumer electronics, there’s a lot of activity around right-to-repair laws : Europe’s first such regulations took effect in 2021 , requiring manufacturers to make parts available to third-party repair shops for up to 10 years. And, as Spectrum discovered, medical regulators aren’t yet on the bandwagon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

New low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) would require all liquid transportation fuels to reduce life-cycle carbon emissions by 5% by 2020. Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion),

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Back in the 1970s, when antilock braking systems—the original active safety feature—started to become common, customers rushed to buy it as an option because they loved the way it stopped the car on slick pavement. Manufacturers made it standard before government agencies got around to telling them to. That puts U.S.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. Note that Jobs did not buy Pixar. And he agreed. Pixar Image Computer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

In those locations, buying a lightweight car, defined as one whose structure is built largely from aluminum or specialized lightweight steel, would actually result in fewer emissions than buying a comparable electric car, the study found.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Among their initial findings: PEV buyers universally report lower satisfaction with the dealer purchase experience than buyers of conventional vehicles. The magnitude of these disparities is extraordinary by industry standards and indicate the problem is likely systemic. In contrast, buyers ranked Tesla much more favorably.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

He says they are in discussions with a number of major cloud-providers and leading smartphone makers and he thinks the use of quantum randomness could soon be standard practice. I wouldn't have expected a few years ago that something you can buy in a store will have a QRNG inside," he said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Subject to their respective legislative requirements, to work to develop uniform standards to promote ZEV consumer acceptance and awareness, industry compliance, and economies of scale. We can’t force people to buy cars. We are a big market, a big state, but also part of a whole. —Mary Nichols.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s a compound there,” says Alexander Gabay , a researcher at the University of Delaware , referring to the iron nitride in the magnets being developed by Niron. The standard permanent magnet used in EV motors, neodymium iron boron, has a κ of 1.54, according to this table. But Gabay isn’t buying it. “In It’s that simple.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2012

Instead, according to a new working paper by a duo from The Brookings Institution and Vanderbilt University, the bulk of the estimated benefits from the regulations stem from private benefits such as fuel savings to consumers, based on the regulators’ presumption of consumer irrationality. Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and W.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2024

Battery manufacturers will have to turn out many more units suitable for EV demands while still performing the array of tests they must carry out to assure automakers and consumers that the batteries they’re turning out meet basic standards for performance, safety, and durability.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. An event camera is a camera that has also pixels, but differently from a standard camera, an event camera only sends information when there is motion. But the key difference with a standard camera is that an event camera works in differential mode.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

IBM's essential contributions were to position the technology as suitable for wide use and to set a technology standard. Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. Other companies, including Apple and Tandy Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

and Penn State University. Temple University. 170,850 to buy down the incremental cost of 240,000 gallons biodiesel blended fuel for use by six municipalities and school districts. Penn State University. 150,000 for 15 compressed natural gas-powered trash trucks to replace standard diesel trucks.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Unfortunately, the cost of buying instruments commercially severely limited how many trackers we could deploy. The prototype reported only position and not wave-motion data and had a third battery, accounting for its longer operational life than the three months expected for a standard tracker.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Unable to buy Intel chips because of the sanctions, Huawei most recently sold its x86 server unit to a company owned by China's Henan province. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has an EUV lithography research team and Tsinghua University has developed a new type of particle accelerator light source , which could be used for EUV lithography.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same. The LIGHTS team had the Volvo VNR Electric tractor assessed by a team at the University of California, Riverside on a heavy-duty dynamometer. This is a step that, so far, Tesla has not taken for its own Megacharger standard. That’s about to change.

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MAY 5, 2022

Efforts include the work done by societies such as the IEEE Power & Energy Society , to which I belong; conferences such as the IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference ; publications including IEEE Electrification ; and technical standards, like IEEE 1547 for connecting distributed energy resources to the grid. Carbon sequestration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

A study by researchers at Iowa State University has determined that the automotive industry has a very large potential to utilize biobased materials. Biobased materials may require substantial testing to ensure safety standards can be met. Biodegradability. Sustainability/carbon foot print.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. The company standardized all the tasks and assigned each worker to do just one task—standardizing the work each worker does as well. At the core of Henry Ford’s achievement was the design of an automobile that was made for mass production.

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APRIL 17, 2022

Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2011

If ethanol is the US’ primary biofuel, it will be “ essentially impossible ” to achieve the federal Renewable Fuel Standard volume mandates because of the ethanol blending limit (the “blend wall”), regardless of whether it is the current 10% or raised to 15%, according to a study by researchers at Purdue University.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

meditation , focus , and sleep ; these devices need only meet the safety standards that govern consumer gadgets, not the far stricter regulations for medical devices regarding both safety and proof of clinical benefit. should set global standards for neurorights, paving the way for nations to pass their own laws. IEEE Spectrum.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

Although market-based mechanisms need to be implemented soon to establish a framework for emissions reductions, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) team argues, the range of prices for CO 2 currently under discussion will be too low to enable achieving the longer-term targets. For electric power. For buildings and appliances. Samaras et al.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2022

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Accenture Labs are putting this idea to the test with the design of a wireless heater that can warm up whatever’s placed inside of it when the heater is placed on a standard wireless charging pad.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Market watchers and researchers alike are wary of potential compatibility and standards issues, and consumer uptake is unpredictable. So you essentially need to buy everything from the same provider.” And he’s skeptical about the cost factor in home bidirectional chargepoints. There’s still a lack of interoperability,” he says. “So

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

The ChargePoint America project will collect data characterizing vehicle use and charging patterns, and Purdue University and Idaho National Labs will analyze the data. Richard Lowenthal, CEO of Coulomb Technologies. Generating revenue for station owners to offset electricity and maintenance costs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. Many options exist for meeting the standard.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Specific recommendations under the invest strategy include: Make more capital available by enabling institutional investors to buy energy efficiency financial obligations on a large scale using securities based on uniform contract structures and better performance data.

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