Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

In conjunction with the Plug-in 2011 event in Raleigh, NC, GM and ABB demonstrated a lab prototype of a distributed energy storage (DES) system that combines Volt battery technology and a proven grid-tied electric power inverter. The first step toward this field demo is to build a lab prototype. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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Volt Grid GM Batteries 210

Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

A BMW owner, he is a possible future Polestar buyer, which made this a demo ride and reinforced my positive impressions. These should diminish as more and more of the grid uses power from renewable sources, such as solar and wind, and as the manufacturers themselves use green energy—some, including GM, already do.

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Volvo San Francisco Google All-Electric 81

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Neuromorphic vision sensors draw inspiration from how the eye’s photoreceptors work; they still use lenses to project the world onto a grid of pixels on a silicon chip, but it’s what those pixels do with the information that’s interesting. Prophesee and IniVation already have brands of event-based imagers on the market. Gregory Cohen.

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Building Engine Universal IDEA 117

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Tesla Bot Development Platform Demo. I guess there’s only so much you can do with a mostly naked electromechanical humanoid in terms of form factor, but at first glance there’s nothing particularly innovative or futuristic about Tesla’s design. Tesla Bot Latest Generation Demo. And I think after that, progress will be slow.

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Tesla IDEA Design All-Electric 139

Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

As commercial fleets electrify, they are finding that they need expert help to design, install and operate their charging infrastructure. In the best-case scenario, we get involved upfront, before they even come out with a specification or an RFP, and in those circumstances, we can help them design, help them through the layouts.

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Fleet Charging Power Powered 104

Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2023

So, who better to have written the newly released book The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight , which presents a history of blindness that touches on events and advances in social, political, artistic, and technological realms? The way a Braille cell works is there’s as many as six dots arranged on a two-by-three grid.

Personal 80

Personal All-Electric DIY Light 80

Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Many of the people at BCC were responsible for the design of the SDS 940, the computer on the strength of which Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems in 1968.) which had made the 1103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design, reaped one of the first benefits.

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Future Engine Personal IDEA 145

Plug In India

MAY 3, 2022

Was informed that the serious money for print media, apart from advertising, is in events. A little bird tells me that the original Etergo design called for an aluminium battery case. But portability in the Etergo design made them go in for lighter plastic. I liked the design of the conveyor. We were demo’ed one.

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Future Manufacturer Electric Electrical 59