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Two case studies outline how Houston and Loveland are saving money with EVs in their fleets

Green Car Congress

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. Loveland is now aiming to convert all of its light-duty fleet vehicles that work within a close distance of the city to EVs.

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Road Test: 2024 Nissan Leaf SV Plus EV

Clean Fleet Report

For us, this was the best way to efficiently drive the Leaf SV Plus, increasing the battery charge by converting kinetic energy into electric energy that is then stored in the battery. Nissan stresses that ProPilot Assist is not autopilot, which no car company has, including the one that fled California for Texas.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. As a visual and performance statement it naturally draws comparisons with the Cybertruck. Will it come to Australia?

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

Green Car Congress

Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. In May 2008, the Telegraph newspaper in the UK reported that British drivers paid 57 pence/liter or $2.99/ gallon of diesel in excise tax which doesn’t include the value added tax. gallon in January 2009.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. Forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative. Our voices have a lot of special characteristics.

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