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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

Green Car Congress

Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. The study included co-authors from the University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Utrecht University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aclima and EDF. —Kyle Messier, a UT Austin postdoc and a co-author. 7b00891.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Across the street from City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into a row of charging stations. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. February 15, 2010.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). Our voices have a lot of special characteristics.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. But Nissan has announced that for North America, they too are converting over to CCS. We live in a townhouse in a row of townhouses. What exactly is fast charging?