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Tesla wins as Texas calls for state-backed charging stations to incorporate its plug

Baua Electric

billion in federal investment to create unutilized, high-speed chargers on 7,500 miles (12,070 km) of the family’s busiest highways. Others states like California, Iowa and Michigan are reviewing the moving charging marketplace. The Federal Freeway Management on Tuesday said the trade used to be impulsively evolving.

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U-M Solar Car Team wins a fourth consecutive American Solar Challenge, sets record

Green Car Congress

Final time for the 1,650-mile (2,655 km) competition was 44:36:21—10 hours and 18 minutes ahead of second-place Iowa State. This is the seventh North American title for the U-M team, which won the inaugural event in 1990 with its first car, the Sunrunner. More than 100 students created Quantum.

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Advantage EV

Electric Auto Association

In Department of Energy fuel economy tests, in short-trip city driving, a conventional gasoline car’s gas mileage is about 12 percent lower at 20 degrees Fahrenheit than it would be at 77 degrees Fahrenheit and can drop as much as 22 percent for very short trips of around 3 to 4 miles. Warming up an EV can be done safely and quickly indoors.

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EST Editor Calls for Papers on Gulf Spill; Ending the Addiction

Green Car Congress

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Jerald Schnoor, the Allen S. The high energy tides (15 ft [4.6

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The Automotive Research Center at the University of Michigan’s Annual Program Review: The Driving Force Behind Autonomous Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Professionals representing each of the three aforementioned domains (academia, government, industry) comprised the event’s nearly 300 attendees. mile per gallon fleet average fuel economy requirement set for automotive companies to be met by 2025. Automotive Research Center.” 4 ] teleoperation, shared control, and full autonomy. [

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Flash Drive: 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 EV

Clean Fleet Report

The Standard Range has a driving range of 240 miles, while the RWD gets either 305 and 361 miles depending if shod with 20-inch or 18-inch tires. The AWD driving range is 316 miles with the 18-inch tire and 270 miles with 20-inch tires. The 361-mile all-electric driving range is very appealing in the RWD model.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. in planning overnight charging locations and events. This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California. He received volunteer support from Earl Cox, Geoff Kinsey, and Doug Korthof in Southern California.