Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Bright Automotive, the developer of the purpose-built, plug-in hybrid IDEA ( earlier post ), has been awarded one of five contracts by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to develop and test an electric postal delivery vehicle. The IDEA, Bright noted, is now scheduled for production in 2013.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2024

He continued to work on the ARPANET and organized the first public demonstration of the network at the 1972 International Conference on Computer Communications , held in Washington, D.C. Khan soon after conceived the idea of open-architecture networking. In March 1973 he recruited Cerf to help him make his idea into reality.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The idea was to combine Tesla’s “fast and reliable chargers” with bp pulse’s industry-leading, intelligent charge management software, called “Omega,” for a comprehensive solution for fleet customers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

SpinLaunch , the developer of a ground-based, electric-powered, kinetic launch system, has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. The velocity boost provided by the accelerator’s electric drive results in a 4x reduction in the fuel required to reach orbit, a 10x reduction in cost, and the ability to launch multiple times per day.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. This reaction is energetically uphill, so electricity must be added to drive the reaction forward, and it is not possible without a new family of CO?-reducing Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.) reducing catalysts.

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Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2023

Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash. Today SEL manufactures hundreds of products that protect, monitor, control, and automate electric power systems in more than 165 countries. I couldn’t put it down.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Ohio State EcoCAR built a series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powered by E85. liter engine, five-speed automated manual transmission, 150 kW electric machine, and an 18.9 Teams spent the last four years (2014-2018) harnessing those ideas into the ultimate energy-efficient, high performance vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2016

The X-57 features 14 electric motors turning propellers, all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing. This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. It is used for a series of research projects intended to integrate complex electric propulsion systems.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 1, 2015

When the Kia Soul EV electric car debuted just over a year ago, Kia planned a fairly cautious roll out. The electric tall wagon would launch in California, and sales would expand to other states at an undetermined future point. It turned out that buyers really liked the idea of an all-electric tall wagon with 93 miles of.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tesla Insurance is poised to launch in Texas next month and New York in 2022, according to CEO Elon Musk, who gave additional details regarding the electric automaker’s insurance initiative on Twitter last night. Reports stated that Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Washington were among the first U.S.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His career highlights include being instrumental in Alexander Graham Bell being awarded the patent for the telephone in 1876, being named a member of the inaugural group of technologists known as “ Edison Pioneers ,” and developing the filament that turned Edison ’s electric lightbulb from an expensive novelty to a reliable, long-lasting commodity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

University of Washington. Recognizing diversity in experience and opinions often results in better solutions, the consortium will also welcome ideas from others. Stanford University. University of California, San Diego. University of Texas at Austin. IBM (advisory board member).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2024

To use the E-meter, a user grasps the metal cylinders while a mild electrical current runs through them. Whipple Museum of the History of Science/University of Cambridge During an auditing session, a preclear holds the E-meter’s two metal cylinders, one in each hand, as a small electrical current flows through them.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

By Bob Erdman and Scott Wilson: Members, Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington DC. Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapter leaders from all over the country attended a recent training seminar to learn how to support EV legislation at the state and local level.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. The Clapper!” The only problem?

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2022

A potential fleet of Tesla Police Cruisers was rejected by Spokane, Washington’s Police Department after an evaluation of the all-electric Model Y crossover did not convince some members that the vehicle would be effective for law enforcement. However, another manufacturer will likely be producing the EV police cruisers.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the United States, coal’s share of electricity generation has plummeted since its early 2000s peak; 28 percent of U.S. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. At a high level, 15 states with 25% or more of electricity form renewable sources accounted for 53.5% And so “EVs are bad.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

million to four industry and academic teams for additional research into ideas to reduce aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise in aircraft that could enter service between 2030 and 2035. The teams first studied the ideas from October 2008 to April 2010. NASA is awarding $16.5

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

©Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post. One morning just over a year ago, I was surprised to see the above photo taken from President Obama’s Washington, DC-bound train appear in a Washington Post collection from the inauguration. A simple group, a simple message- and a deep belief that the two were enough to change things.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 2, 2023

The 3,800 team members, as Hyundai calls them, are building the all-new 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 that joins electric models of the GV60 EV and the Electrified G80 , both of which are assembled in South Korea. Both GV70s share a platform that was specifically designed for a gasoline engine and electric motors. Wink, wink.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2011

Industry, government and organizational leaders last week in Washington, DC launched a national initiative aimed at increasing the supply of domestic oil produced through enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide (CO 2 -EOR). The EOR Initiative is facilitated by the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

Ford Motor Company is expanding its global Ford Smart Mobility plan ( earlier post ) with a new experiment to study how connected electric bicycles can work seamlessly with cars and public transport to deliver faster and easier daily commutes and help businesses operating in urban centers. Info Cycle experiment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

A team of engineers at Washington University in St. This is why manufacturers over-stack the material; they have no idea what’s happening inside. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2 million in matching funds, for a total project investment of $3.2 Earlier post , earlier post.). —Venkat Subramanian.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2022

My wife’s family wasn’t thrilled with the idea of our marriage” Hankins explained. Meanwhile, he set out to see what kind of support he might need once the car arrived, and launched his search with the local Electric Vehicle Association chapter. “I I went to a Drive Electric Dayton (DED) meeting in a big garage,” he said. “I

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The energy/climate debate of rent years has been dominated by the idea that the price of fossil fuels must be raised to reflect the full cost of their use. One specific idea the team advocates is a regional approach to managing and financing the intermediate stages of innovation. —Richard Lester.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 3, 2023

Carbon nanotubes for touch-free presence sensing Somalytics claims its paper-based, carbon-nanotube sensors, developed by University of Washington researchers in collaboration with CoMotion , can detect the presence of human tissue up to 20 centimeters away. The idea is valid, as heat has been shown to stop an itch.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. A growing number of hybrid and electric cars are offered in the Hertz Green Travel Collection. Some big players have jumped in and then retreated.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. As far as I was concerned, computer networking was just an idea that I thought was really interesting, especially the communication-network aspects. I was there for a few years.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 21, 2021

Having noticed that Washington got a bit of publicity for vowing to ban all vehicles reliant on internal combustion after 2030, a dozen other American states decided it would be a good idea to reaffirm their own religious-like commitment to the environment by saying they too will be restricting your choice of automobiles by 2035. […].

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Is it really a novel idea? The ‘vactrain’ concept conceived by Robert Goddard early in the twentieth century is a direct forerunner of the Hyperloop; since then, several similar ideas have been offered without much success.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

A coalition of car makers, battery suppliers and electricity providers has come together to ask for federal help for EVs. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers. By Judith Burns.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Chrysler is showcasing its two-mode Ram Truck Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), equipped with a 12 kWh, 33 Ah cell, 355V Li-ion battery pack from Electrovaya, at the Washington DC Auto Show. The Ram PHEV is a blended plug-in hybrid, meaning that it doesn’t run exclusively all-electric during its charge depletion period.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. Under the guise of a contract for General Electric, Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a game similar to ping-pong that could be played on a television. But was Pong fun?

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