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DOE awards $3.6M to High Performance Computing projects in manufacturing, materials and mobility

Green Car Congress

City of San José – Department of Transportation (San Jose, CA) will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop a quasi-dynamic traffic assignment model that reduces compute times of from days to hours for a metropolitan area. Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc. HPC for Mobility.

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Schwarzenegger's Green Cred Fading with CARB Caos

Plugs and Cars

The LA Times headline, Mixed messages in the air, The governor's actions often work against his tough talk on pollution tells the story. It is not the first time the governor has made bold promises on the environment while his administration dragged its feet behind the scenes.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Whats all the fuss about "plugging in", what difference does it make? [ edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. San Jose Mercury News ).

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