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Mitsubishi Motors teams with USC on Smart Grid Living Laboratory Project; 12 i-MiEVs

Green Car Congress

(MMNA) is supporting the University of Southern California (USC) and the Viterbi School of Engineering as it develops a special campus-wide Smart Grid “Living Laboratory” project including the use of Mitsubishi i-MiEV 100% electric vehicles.

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Developing standards for EV charging reliability

Charged EVs

SAE, the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the automotive field, is working to develop standards for EV charging error codes, and helping to build a curriculum to train the technicians to repair and maintain equipment. Charged : Public charger uptime is a huge issue—everybody’s up in arms about it. Let’s figure those out.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif. EARS wasn’t perfect, Thornburg said.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. That “V2G&# over the wheel stands for Vehicle to Grid.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. He left TRW in 1992 to become a professor of software engineering at USC, where he served as founding director of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009.

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