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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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IROS 2022 : 23–27 October 2022, KYOTO, JAPAN ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals : 4–5 November 2022, LOS ANGELES CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Enjoy today’s videos! This summer, we held a contest seeking ideas robots inspired by nature, that could help the world. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

Green Car Congress

EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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NASA rolls out new strategic vision for aeronautics research

Green Car Congress

Bolden shared the strategic vision in a keynote speech at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Aviation 2013 conference in Los Angeles. Already adopted by airlines and other practitioners in the aviation community, the algorithms improve operations and maintenance.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library The engineers at AC Propulsion (ACP) were familiar with the basic precepts of bidirectional EV power. At the turn of the millennium, nearly 20 percent of the state’s generating capacity was idled for maintenance.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models. The idea is that having vehicles with bidirectional capabilities creates an environment where innovators like Nuvve can develop business models.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct?