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Bosch developing sensor box for air taxis using production-tested components from automotive

Green Car Congress

In vehicles, they supply control units with data about whether the car is currently braking or accelerating, and lets them know the direction in which the vehicle is traveling. Test flights of electric air taxis are scheduled to begin in cities such as Dubai, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Singapore in 2020.

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Toyota unveils RAV4 EV demonstration vehicle; targeting fully-engineered version in 2012 for market

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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, unveiled the second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV demonstrator vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Tesla Motors is supplying the battery and other related components. It acknowledges that no one technology will be the winner and that a mobility system in Los Angeles will probably look very different.

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Car “charging treasure”: the third option besides charging piles and battery replacement

Setec Powerr

Well, there is now a “takeaway” charging service that just provides a power bank-style power supply. The startup’s service is currently available in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Los Angeles and Dallas.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. It’s a huge tragedy in such a small place and it has saddened all Tongans around the world.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Double-Stator Switched Reluctance Motor (DSSRM) Technology General Atomics and the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) will develop a new type of electric motor with the. power supply from concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP).

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Demand for energy, to heat our buildings in the winter and cool them in the summer, is highest at the very time when supply is also the greatest. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25. The best part?

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