Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In an exclusive interview ahead of an invite-only event today in San Jose, Intel outlined new chip technologies it will offer its foundry customers by sharing a glimpse into its future data-center processors. The San Jose event, IFS Direct Connect, is meant as a sort of coming-out party for the new business model.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. Residential: The primary, most convenient, and cost efficient option for many drivers is residential charging. The cost of installation will be incorporated into a monthly fee. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

San Diego-Carlsbad. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara. Residential: The primary, most convenient and cost efficient fueling option for many drivers is residential charging. The cost of installation will be incorporated into a monthly fee. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

DOE’s SunShot Initiative aims to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at large scale with other forms of energy without subsidies by the end of the decade. SVTC Technologies (San Jose, CA) – $25 million for Industry-Focused Development.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2011

This enables drivers to waste less fuel looking for delivery destinations, gas stations and other locales, while reducing emissions and carbon footprints, decreasing costs and creating enhanced personnel comfort and organizational efficiencies. Reduced Emissions and Fuel Costs Plus Driver Productivity and Comfort.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Access initiatives like ride‐and‐ drive events, and an additional approximately ~$16 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Quallion developed the system under a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with a global Tier 1 supplier to meet OEM specification requirements and has installed the battery in a Class 8 truck for preliminary field testing with plans to obtain data for future commercialization. to about 5 kWh.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Fuel 218

Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. PHEVs use domestically produced electricity delivered through the grid, with a lower cost to fuel the vehicles than that of petroleum fuels. Here's part of the story from CNET : Google.org is investing $2.75 Aptera, of Carlsbad, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute will focus on accelerating the development and adoption of advanced sensors, data analytics, and controls in manufacturing, while reducing the cost of these technologies by half and improving the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (Cambridge, MA).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are several new powertrain options, and none has yet proven itself in regular commercial service. Last September, ZeroAvia successfully completed a test flight of a commercial-scale fuel cell-powered aircraft. Charged : What are your projections for cost per mile? In December, the company won a £12-million ($16.3-million)

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Hydrogen Fuel San Francisco All-Electric 90

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Initial AWare deployments will take place this year in Voyage’s existing commercial community deployments in The Villages in Central Florida and The Villages in San Jose, CA. These deployments will feature Voyage’s custom automated driving system (ADS) running on Renovo’s AWare OS.

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Taxi Fleet San Jose Minivan 199

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. San Jose, Calif., When Adobe was founded, the cheapest cost around $10,000. Then Canon Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $7 million in total funding through DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to support the development and commercialization of emerging solar energy technologies. Solexant, San Jose, Calif., Stion, San Jose, Calif.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. If the testing is successful, the team will consider building smaller-scale ethanol plants distributed across the Valley to be close to the sorghum fields to lower transportation costs.

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Gas-Electric San Jose Gas California 236

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. I set up the partnership between ChargePoint and Solar Smart Living and helped many commercial and residential customers make the transition to electric charging. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2013

has completed the ChargePoint America Program with more than 4600 shipments and installations of its home, public and commercial charging ports for electric vehicles (EVs). In all, 4,600 charging ports were installed in single-family homes, multi-family housing, commercial and public locations to support more than 2,000 program vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have talked about the total cost of ownership for EVs compared with both hybrid and traditional ICE vehicles. I set up the partnership between ChargePoint and Solar Smart Living and helped many commercial and residential customers make the transition to electric charging. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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North America America El Paso New Mexico 52

Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Newsom signed a funding bill to invest $106 million in the construction of additional hydrogen stations through the end of the decade, for the first time backing stations for commercial vehicles as well as passenger cars. Compared to a battery electric car, the cost-to-fuel difference is substantial. kg tank would be about $202.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

These incentives help to pay the difference between the cost of alternative-fuel vehicles and conventional vehicles. City of Santa Clarita (Los Angeles County) will receive $300,000 to install a self-serve, commercial, compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility capable of fueling up to four vehicles at a time.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used. The project will include assessments of cost, capacity, performance and reliability, along with design, testing and production.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Part of the reason for its success is the price, which keeps falling—from $595 at its introduction to $149 currently, for which the consumer gets graphics and sound equal to or better than that provided by machines that cost five times as much. The cost of developing the Commodore 64: No one knows. It’s only sand.”

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Jose, Calif.,

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2022

Abandoning the four-way split, he saw, would cost only 5 percent in performance, so the two-way cache won the day. Commercially available tools, Intel’s engineers say, do even worse. Prime Computer (Commercial Systems Group, Natick, Mass.), and Convergent Technologies (San Jose, Calif., a division of Unisys Corp.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

Michael Craner had purchased a subscription to the Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint™ network that would let him track and plug into the company’s network of Smartlet™ EV Supply Equipment stations at no cost.

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