Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2016
The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. This energy capacity would be enough to power the UK, Germany and France. Earlier post.)
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 5, 2009
Meanwhile, over at Germany’s BMW they made a handful of EV Minis just for show and not for dough in a cynical and dumbass move to game the California CARB regulators who once again seem to be all too anxious to assume the BOHICA position on behalf of car makers. I look forward to bringing you my insights and analysis.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2023
When a version was leaked ahead of a major conference, things got ugly. So engineers have been coming up with practical ways to integrate lasers made of compound semiconductors onto silicon wafers, and do it in a way that’s manufacturable and relatively cheap. Kahng’s research largely backed the rival group’s take on things.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
After the proposal for the Combined Charging System (CCS) was published in Germany in 2011, a group of automakers and suppliers formed CharIN to promote the adoption of CCS. We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.
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