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Tesla Semi heads to three-week peformance event to assess EV fleets

Teslarati

While there will be twenty-one commercial EVs at the event, the Semi seems to be the highlight of the entire event. The event will also be looking at things like total electric energy and fuel for all trucks on each day, and what that will mean in total energy usage once all Class 8 trucks are converted to EVs.

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DOE awarding up to $12M for projects to advance wave energy

Green Car Congress

Two projects will test and validate wave energy converter (WEC) prototypes in open water. The magnetic gearbox, which creates speed change without physical contact, minimizes operations and maintenance costs and provides protection from overloading during extreme events.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

Technology was on duty miles downwind, where, as the battle against these fires went on for days, even weeks, many residents of the Bay Area and Sacramento River Delta region turned to air-quality sensor networks, particularly AirNow , maintained by the U.S. The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Val Miftakhov , also a member of the chapter, founded Electric Motorworks , where he first converted BMWs to electric and then moved onto manufacturing JuiceBox charging stations. “I got a thrill ride in the X1 at a chapter meeting,” said Pohorsky. And I would recommend Ian’s TedX talk.”

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. As Richard Lowenthal said to me at the event: "Great deal!" But for whom?

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Oakland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. The event is Thursday, June 29th at 7:00pm at Town Lake Center , 721 Barton Springs Road. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX.,

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Volvo Trucks to begin limited production of DME heavy-duty trucks in NA in 2015; customer trials; Oberon partnership

Green Car Congress

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. US Patent Nº 8,378,159: Process and system for converting biogas to liquid fuels T.H. Volvo VNL D13 with DME.

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