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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

Cars That Think

The CSTF hosts panel sessions and webinars where experts discuss how technology can lessen the impact of climate change. The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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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. Among the awards he received was a 2016 Bunka Korosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award , one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric motors are generally three times more energy efficient than combustion engines. Electric engines are emissions free (and quiet). The electric grid is the most advanced energy-distribution network ever created and is constantly only a few feet away from us (far more ubiquitous than gas/ethanol/hydrogen stations).

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The engines are dirtier, after all, and they get lower mileage. Email The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries With Adura's drive train, you can run on different types of lithium-ion batteries or ultracapacitors. Cylindricals are cheaper and constitute the bulk of volume production.)

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

I’m probably the last person you’d expect to be passionate about electric vehicles (EVs). I spent years in blissful blindness, never thinking about tailpipe emissions unless I was trying to tune an engine. I tell everyone about vehicle-to-grid technology, and remind them that diesel fuel gels when they forget to add the anti-gel.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD’s engineering prowess. Depending on whether or not you count trainees, BYD employs between 10,000 and 17,000 engineers and it’s constantly recruiting the best graduates from China’s engineering and technical schools. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion. Youre already getting our newsletter.

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