Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 4, 2017
The Volkswagen brand Board of Management has agreed on milestones with key suppliers at the “MEB Supplier Summit” in the run-up to start of production for the first vehicle based on the new modular electric drive kit (MEB). At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Volkswagen announced it will introduce a battery-electric SUV based on the I.D.
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 8, 2022
By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., The idea that a researcher should program computer systems interactively was anathema to them.
Creative Greenius
JUNE 11, 2009
Most have no idea. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. If Los Angeles County were a nation, its economy would be the 18th largest in the world.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Researchers and technology developers outside the auto companies with ideas for improving components or system controls have no way to assess whether they'll work in the real world. While making key advances, they’re doing so on proprietary systems. The lack of open testbeds has the potential to bottleneck innovation.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. April 18, 2009 3:46 pm Link The Volt is a great idea and it looks magnificent, but they are out of their minds.!!!
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Toyotas Mr. Asakura expressed skepticism about the concept of a plug-in hybrid car that would run only on battery power for 40 miles, the idea central to the Chevrolet Volt concept. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."
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