Cars That Think

MAY 27, 2022

Our transformer robot visited Philly in 2022 as part of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Swiss-Mile ] Human cells grown in the lab could one day be used for a variety of tissue grafts, but these cells need the right kind of environment and stimulation.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

This small change will make a major part of our fleet greener overnight, creating more environmentally-friendly vehicles that are cheaper to maintain. We’re leading by example and showing other cities how to make common-sense changes to improve the environment around us. —Major Kevin Faulconer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

BMW i3, BMW i8 and iPerformance owners in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area who are Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers are invited to apply for participation in a 24-month program focused on managed EV and PHEV charging. BMW was the first to showcase this technology in a real-world application.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The world’s largest camera sits within a nondescript industrial building in the hills above San Francisco Bay. The detectors aren’t the only part of the camera that need to be kept on ice. They’ll test its performance in a darkened environment by shuffling around light sources. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 3, 2011

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. A threat taken seriously in San Francisco. I wrangled a few hours of charging back in December from Bob Hayden, the SF Department of the Environment's EV Czar.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. EPA provided scientific expertise in study design and instrument operations as part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Aclima.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This purchase marks Proterra’s first airport electric bus deployment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Funded in part by a $3.8-million SJC has already launched a number of initiatives to address the concerns and interests of the community and the environment.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Assemblymember Chen represents Yorba Linda, La Habra, Rowland Heights, Diamond Bar, and includes parts of Chino Hills State Park. Assemblymember Dahle represents a rural district consisting of Lassen County, Modoc County, Nevada County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Siskiyou County, and parts of Butte County and Placer County.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

We were quite surprised to find that polycarbonate plastic biodegrades in the environment. This finding challenges the wide public belief that hard plastics remain unchanged in the environment for decades or centuries. Biodegradation, of course, releases BPA to the environment. parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

The RAV4 EV will go on sale in late summer 2012 through select dealers, initially in four major California metropolitan markets including Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County and San Diego, with an MSRP of the RAV4 is $49,800. The battery warranty is 8 years or 100,000 miles.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 8, 2023

Jo De Boeck , chief strategy officer and executive vice president at the Belgium-based nanoelectronics R&D center imec , explained a proposed R&D structure and its likely impact to engineers at the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) last month in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2017

In the San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric Vessel with Zero Emissions study, known as SF-BREEZE, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concluded liquid hydrogen fuel cells are feasible on technical, regulatory and economic bases. Earlier post.). The heavier and faster the vessel, the more power is required.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This is part of a continuing series at Electrek that focuses on home energy usage, see our coverage of heat pump washer/dryers Why induction stoves make a lot of sense Induction stoves send electromagnetic waves to pots and pans that are magnetic, heating up only a limited area where food and liquid go.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. The research was supported in large part by the California Air Resources Board.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And we scattered around the Bay Area, to San Francisco, Pleasanton, as well as Palo Alto, and we were keeping in touch online. Sanas now has a full-time engineering staff of 14, including the founders, and three more part-time developers, plus two employees working on the business side. And then came the pandemic.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Thus, the different leg parts will still execute the intended motion, but based on the center of mass and the measured rotation errors of the support foot, some leg parts are slowed down if needed. [ Today, we have a fully driverless taxi services in San Francisco and Phoenix.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

Delphi Automotive Systems has been testing its self-driving technology in the United States, where an Audi SQ5 prototype completed a coast-to-coast drive from San Francisco to New York in 99%autonomous mode last year. This would allow SDVs to be integrated with existing road traffic. These efforts will be supported by the 1.8-ha

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

Separately, Audi of America, also part of the larger Volkswagen Group, also announced its own carbon offset program for the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid (PHEV) ( earlier post ) with 3Degrees, as well as SunPower and Bosch partnerships. The 2015 e-Golf will go on sale later this year at participating dealerships in select states.

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Cars That Think

JULY 11, 2022

Cruise , the San-Francisco–based designer and operator of all-electric self-driving cars, employs nearly 2,000 engineers, including somewhere between 300 and 900 engineers with Ph.D. Our simulation group is part of this team. They work in hardware and software. They specialize in AI, security, and safety.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Monday I’ll be flying up to San Francisco for a meeting with the California State Park Foundation to see how we might partner with them. I have no excuse for my ugly and excessive flying carbon footprint and only the carbon offsets I purchase ease any of my guilt.

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JUNE 21, 2016

Together with the Federal Ministry of transport in Berlin, the project demonstrated that an energy positive home environment with a battery system is possible. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. This new research center shows Ford’s commitment to be part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem—anticipating customers’ wants and needs, especially on connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. Wireless innovator.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. We don’t understand huge parts of the ecosystem at the moment, and access to reliable data is tough,” Smith says. This was not inevitable.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The use of low-pressure or vacuum tubes as part of a transportation system has a long history. The Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX outlined the argument for a service running between Los Angeles and San Francisco that would be cheaper and faster than a proposed high-speed rail link in his Hyperloop Alpha paper.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. In those environments, batteries work pretty well. One is, that part of the flight where you really have a severe problem is relatively short. So, that was a progression that we made.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Monday I’ll be flying up to San Francisco for a meeting with the California State Park Foundation to see how we might partner with them. I have no excuse for my ugly and excessive flying carbon footprint and only the carbon offsets I purchase ease any of my guilt.

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Al Gore Gore Climate Maryland 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

The 31 st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, a special conference of the Society for Industrial Microbiology, began yesterday in San Francisco with its largest group of conferees yet—approximately 850. Renewable resources, lignocellulosics, are at the intersection of agriculture, energy and environment.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

Development the hybrid quantity is a part of our electrified technique as we transition those homeowners to our past [battery-electric] fashions. And our pristine virtual retailing gear will release the whole want for immense bodily footprints in markets the place actual property is pricey, like Brandnew York, San Francisco or Los Angeles.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Favorite periodicals Four newspapers daily ( The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Wall St. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. When he was 15, a family friend working at System Development Corp.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

PG&E services the San Francisco area and Northern California. The average peak electric demand for a house in San Francisco is 1.8 “ We think there will be a substantial preference on the part of the customer to head to 220. It would be the equivalent of adding three homes in San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2013

seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates); fun-to-drive electric vehicle targeted for the urban environment. Electric motors have two primary parts: a stator and a rotor. Driving on hills, L does a splendid job of re-topping the battery.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Tesla, suspended production of Model 3 and Model Y electric cars at its Fremont factory, with CEO Elon Musk reportedly citing a “parts shortage”. Power Finds The Best Way To Sell EVs Is Getting Butts In Seats – As part of its Electric Vehicle Consideration Study, J.D. – February 24, via San Francisco Chronicle.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2018

If you’re working in a sensitive ecological area and you spill liquid hydrogen there, the fuel not only removes itself from this environment, it removes itself from the planet. The Zero-V project evolved from earlier Sandia work on the SF-BREEZE, a hydrogen-powered passenger ferry designed to operate in the San Francisco Bay.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning. ” "I should probably not be standing this close," I think to myself, as the robot slowly approaches a large tree branch on the floor in front of me. In structured environments like factories, this works well enough. RoMan is one part of that process.

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