Plugs and Cars
JULY 31, 2008
Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., The conference attendees heard the now familiar if increasingly impassioned representatives of the utility industry trumpet the benefits of electricity for transportation.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2023
In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. When a version was leaked ahead of a major conference, things got ugly.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 4, 2022
What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Roboticist, Google Brain. Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences, Tesla: IROS 2022 is coming up in a few weeks! Looking at the Tesla Bot as a roboticist, I am impressed by what the engineers achieved for this prototype in a year. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2009
Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.
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.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours. Remember its PURE D.C. SZ (1) 6753.T
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