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Evatran completes 1500+ hours of wireless charging trials with fleets

Green Car Congress

The first participants included Google, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Duke Energy and Clemson University, with installations in the Spring of 2012. The last of the Apollo Program Plugless units will be installed next month at UC Davis and the City of Sacramento.

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ITF launches global initiative to decarbonize transport

Green Car Congress

The partners and supporters of the Decarbonizing Transport Partners are: Aeromexico - Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) - Anheuser Busch InBev – Brisa Group – China Communications Constructions Company (CCCC) – Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) – COSCO Group – European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) (..)

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EV Jerry and Sprit Of DC Visit Flagstaff EAA

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

We were also intrigued with the realtime Google map of Spirit's current location, a thing I hope to have someday for my almost teenage daughter. On Saturday 2/21 Jerry joined us, Ward Davis and his wife Bracken for dinner. After his presentation, we put a little too much charge in our own batteries at the Sizzler salad bar.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Davis is responsible for the firm’s Energy and Project Finance group and has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and investments. Davis gives the following synopsis: ” In 4Q 2008 the markets were frozen. What does normal operation look like?

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

Cars That Think

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. But there is already an event camera called DAVIS that outputs both frames and events between the frames.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. PITCH: If you support our goals, you could support CalCars with a tax-deductible donation in any amount by credit card, check, PayPal or Google Checkout. $25 This project demonstrated that the battery type found in all current hybrids can make a well-performing PHEV.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Dan Sperling, the director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, estimated that a typical electric car battery would cost the automaker $12,000, and a 240-volt charging unit would cost a household at least $1,500.