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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged EVs

SAE, the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the automotive field, is working to develop standards for EV charging error codes, and helping to build a curriculum to train the technicians to repair and maintain equipment. Charged : Public charger uptime is a huge issue—everybody’s up in arms about it. Let’s figure those out.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif. EARS wasn’t perfect, Thornburg said.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. But the engineers involved had not settled many technical details about how these networks would work. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. But the ARPANET didn’t take off immediately.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Indeed, the story of the board’s attempt to regulate plug-in hybrids has turned out to be a battle between an agency whose primary mission is to protect Californians from breathing unhealthy air and a group of environmentalists and engineers who are fighting to slow global warming. “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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Speaking: Tesla VP of Investor Relations Martin Viecha, CEO Elon Musk, CFO Vaibhav Taneja, VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy, Autopilot Director Ashok Elluswamy, Senior Megapack Director Mike Snyder, along with other executives and analysts. Elon Musk : We’re in conversations with one major automaker regarding licensing FSD.

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