EV Central
AUGUST 16, 2022
And the sixth model from Polestar – effectively an EV spin-off of Volvo – will not be cheap. The 6 will launch as a limited-edition model known as the LA Concept edition, in reference to its original launch in Los Angeles. The Polestar 6 brings the O2 concept to reality … but not until 2026.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. A Test of Vehicle-to-Grid Tech By the turn of the millennium, however, selling EV propulsion systems had become a hard way to make a living.
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. Those are Los Angeles, New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The overall impression we took away was of riding in a very expensive, very high-tech automotive running shoe. Volvo’s first EV.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Thermal Transistors Can Handle Heat With No Moving Parts H-Lab/UCLA In November, researchers from University of California, Los Angeles reported the invention of a thermal transistor, the first solid-state device that uses an electronic signal to control the flow of heat. Too bad rhenium is one of the rarest elements on Earth.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 1, 2023
With its efforts on Libra, Facebook drew a compelling picture of the plight of those excluded from banking—not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in South Central Los Angeles and the South Side of Chicago. That is not to say that a private digital currency created by one of these tech giants would create social value.
Creative Greenius
JULY 2, 2009
He’s dealing with the Port of Long Beach which along with its neighbor the Port of Los Angeles are the largest stationary source of air pollution in Southern California. Foster’s trying to get those ships to switch from their ultra cheap and dirty “Bunker fuel&# to distillate fuel.
Charged EVs
APRIL 19, 2023
So it started compelling us to look in certain areas, and we arrived at LAX [Los Angeles International Airport]. The first phone call I made when we energized our first chargers was to Los Angeles World Airports [aka LAWA, the owner and operator of LAX]. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is a hot topic these days.
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