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Green Car Congress
JUNE 23, 2023
Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life.
Cars That Think
MARCH 15, 2024
As the world builds more and more electric cars and trucks—and electrifies other modes of transit—a race is underway to build the ideal, mean-and-green motor. Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. Robroek is also an outlier, though. Robroek was one of only a handful who achieved appreciable and sustained reductions in disease severity, according to the 2016 paper.
Clean Fleet Report
MARCH 31, 2023
For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. Meanwhile, the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in car sharing services could be one way for automakers to promote this technology that is still struggling for traction in the marketplace.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto’s electrical distribution system was built for the electric loads of the 1950s and 1960s , when household heating, water, and cooking were running mainly on natural gas.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., While earning master’s and doctoral degrees, both in electrical and computer engineering, he found time to help those more needy than he was. They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.
Cars That Think
JUNE 20, 2023
When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., Rebecca DeWhitt charges her electric vehicle in the driveway of the Portland, Ore.,
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