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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

The air would be cleaner, and people could knock out two birds with one stone, fueling their ride while tending to other necessary chores. Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Doing so might be practical in the future, but the math doesn’t add up at present. What the Future Holds.

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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

Green Car Congress

GE announced a $200-million open innovation challenge that seeks breakthrough ideas to create a smarter, cleaner, more efficient electric grid, and accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. It is open to anyone aged 18 years or older and all legally formed entities.

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Rivian announces “Rivian Rewards,” a referral program for Rivian owners

Baua Electric

But it also says that it plans to examine the program as it goes, and potentially expand it so that owners can earn and spend points in other ways as they come up with new ideas. We could imagine more events like the “Rivian Adventure Weekend” might be popular with owners, so maybe something that would end up in being an option in the future.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The idea took shape when the EV momentum was picking up globally. With a captive customer in Tata Motors, AutoComp started augmenting its portfolio over time to meet future EV requirements. For the near future, Tata-Gotion has a collaboration with Tata Agratas — the group’s cell manufacturing arm — in the pipeline.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

The idea of putting together a PC outside of IBM's development process disturbed some committee members. But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

Cars That Think

She decided to turn her idea into an app. Such apps can’t legally claim to treat or diagnose disease, at least in the United States. If there aren’t legal protections, somebody is going to take this technology and use it for nefarious purposes,” he says. In 2015, Leow realized that a similar pattern might be true for typing.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future.

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