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Valeo Cruise4U car sets off on 13,000-mile partially automated drive across US

Green Car Congress

In partially automated driving mode, the trip will include stops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York, Miami, San Antonio and San Diego. Using the collected data, the scanner creates a map of the environment allowing it to analyze and anticipate events around the vehicle.

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One EV enthusiast leads to anothe

Electric Auto Association

Drive Electric Dayton Systems Map of 2021 EV Environment. Clean Fuels Ohio assigned us to Ellen Eilers, an event organizer, and she helped us learn how to host ride & drive events. The Register very kindly published a half-page of photos and text about our 2021 NDEW event at Carillon Park. Media links and more.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. Lead Institution: University of Miami. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Rabalais, Ph.D.

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One EV enthusiast leads to another

Electric Auto Association

Drive Electric Dayton Systems Map of 2021 EV Environment. Clean Fuels Ohio assigned us to Ellen Eilers, an event organizer, and she helped us learn how to host ride & drive events. The Register very kindly published a half-page of photos and text about our 2021 NDEW event at Carillon Park. Media links and more.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Local In Austin , Mayor Will Wynn and the City Council, along with Austin Energy , are holding a press conference and speaking event with James Woolsey and Chelsea Sexton , formerly with GM and featured in the feature film, Who Killed the Electric Car ? The event is Thursday, June 29th at 7:00pm at Town Lake Center , 721 Barton Springs Road.

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Cars That Think

Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A team of experienced engineers controlled each robot, and overhead safety tethers kept them from falling over.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

The same sea level rise that will be coming to our Southern California beaches, to the bays of San Francisco, to New York City, to Miami, to the Gulf Coast states, has already arrived in Tonga and has already forced some of Tonga’s South Pacific neighbors to abandon their homeland of the past three centuries. We are ALL Tongan.

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