Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2012

Ford Motor Company is mapping out a strategy to address the requirements for personal mobility in the context of the megatrend of increasing global urbanization, both in mature economies as well as in emerging markets. The Ford chairman had already begun talking about the future of urban personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. Rough map of Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2012

In the toughest days of Tesla's early years, CEO Elon Musk said on film, he wired $3 million of his personal fortune to the company so it could make payroll. Now the always-quotable CEO is downplaying the effect the $465 million in U.S. Department of Energy low-interest loan guarantees it received under the government’s Advanced Technology

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge. Many elements factor into personal fuel efficiency including weather, terrain, traffic conditions and individual driving styles.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 12, 2013

The Korean carmaker has revealed a series of single-person mobility concepts designed by its engineers as part of its company IDEA festival. We all love a light-hearted story on a Friday and thankfully Hyundai has delivered the goods today. For the last three years, Hyundai has been organising this company contest to enhance and expand [.]. Latest news

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. MIT Associate Professor Jessika Trancik, corresponding author of the paper published in Nature Climate , noted that this would more than meet near-term US climate targets for personal vehicle travel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

A Bright IDEA BY SARAH A. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Now, of course, Bright Automotive is ready to unveil the IDEA, with the expectation it will have 50,000 ready for sale in 2013. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only. And that is directly who this new IDEA is aimed at: businesses that carry cargo, whether its Frito chips, power tools, dry cleaning or flowers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2015

These experiments will help test transportation ideas for better customer experiences, more flexible user-ship models and social collaboration that can reward customers. Multimodal navigation and smart routing: Integrates journey planning with personal vehicle and public transportation networks, which can be filtered by cost, time, and amount of biking. Connected vehicles Electric (Battery) Personal Transit Urban mobility V2X

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The winning ideas proffer solutions to the problems posed by the need to travel in crowded urban areas. WeatherVelo specializes in eco-vehicles for personal urban mobility, to bridge the gap between two-wheelers and cars. Past LowCVP Challenges have focused on innovative technologies for passenger cars and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and also brought forward new ideas in the areas of policy, marketing and community engagement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

These commands include following the operator, halting, avoiding obstacles, and stopping immediately if a person or object comes in close proximity to the vehicle. Through these events, more than 100 ideas to date have been generated.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2020

As automakers ramped up production and accepted the idea that in-person. Which electric-vehicle trendsetter is now U.S.-rated rated at 402 miles on a charge? Which automaker revealed its rival to Tesla Autopilot and GM Super Cruise? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending June 19, 2020. The Week In Reverse

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2014

It''s almost inconceivable, the idea of a world without personally-owned automobiles. But that''s the startling vision proposed by noted researcher Tom Turrentine and colleagues, in a recent paper published online in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, entitled "California: Beyond cars?" (PDF). The abstract lays it out: Despite--or because

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Minimal cars are often an appealing idea: why should one person drive a two-ton vehicle with five or more seats on local journeys of 10 miles or fewer? Then there's the crushingly difficult parking in major European, Asian, and North American cities. Add to that, perhaps, a desire for minimal use of energy and material resources. So why not design. Europe parking minicar two-seat

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The idea behind eSum is to look into ways of countering this trend. Tags: Electric (Battery) Personal Transit Safety BMW Motorrad concept C1-E. Click to enlarge. BMW Motorrad has developed an electric study vehicle, the C1-E, as a contribution to the European safety project eSUM. This study unit is based on the concept of the BMW C1, and is characterized by a very high level of active and passive safety.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2017

The internet has transformed how many perceive property, allowing the rental of other peoples' personal vehicles, apartments, and other spaces when owners are not using them. Now, the idea is being applied to charging stations across the United Kingdom with the introduction of the Chargie smartphone app. Chargie aims to redefine how electric-car. UK Apps England plug-in cars Charging station charging infrastructure Home charging

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

We have a shared vision of how people, goods and ideas will be transported in the future, as well as the safety and regulatory ecosystem that will underpin that transportation. The company’s portfolio of vehicles includes Cora, a two-person air taxi and Flyer, a vehicle for personalized flight. Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 31, 2014

CCAs are about the best idea ever created to give communities the choice of buying their own renewable energy on the open market and offering their customers 100% renewable energy if they want it. This political primary season just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, representing the 66th District in California explains as State Controller, John Chiang listens at the Lunquist Mansion on the Palos Verdes Peninsula during a recent fundraiser (photo by Joe Galliani).

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

“Well maybe not you, personally… If you help us.” “I still have no idea what you’re talking about.” It all started with the video. It was sent to me last Thursday via email. A YouTube link from someone calling themself Primrose Evergreen. The email said “ We made this video. We want 2 talk 2 U. If U want 2 talk w/us B sitting on the 9/11 bench @ Pier & Valley/Ardmore @ 11:15 PM. Thanksgiving. No phones. No cameras. No recording devices.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This wouldn’t be happening if Sam Zell had any idea of what he was doing as owner of the paper. Some of them are great writers and good journalists but there isn’t a single editor or person in management worth working for anymore. The L.A. bird cage liner devoted half a page above the fold in today’s paper to this: Always nice to be in the L.A. Times but this coverage is clueless and snarky. The paper missed the money shot and they do not get the 350 message.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

MARCH 16, 2007

Since this kit is the 914 AC kit, I have no idea how to install the controller plate. I've contacted Randy Pollock, the first person to order a 914 AC kit and he and I are working to figure this out. This week has been a whirlwind and I haven't caught up on sharing all the pictures. Last Tuesday, I received another shipment from ElectroAuto.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

They also provide opportunities to reimagine personal and commercial mobility with quality of life and economic benefits. The task force will continue to enable companies to pursue innovative ideas around CAV technology in a business-friendly way that has been the hallmark of Texas in this space and others over time. The Texas Department of Transportation is going to create a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Task Force to become a central point for CAV advancement in Texas.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

“ Though President Obama’s personal intervention at Copenhagen salvaged a modest non-binding agreement among major polluter nations, he acknowledged that much remains to be done at the international and national levels. Harman with South Bay community leaders outside the Green Idea House home site of Robert and Monica Fortunato.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2017

With their specialized knowledge of various subjects—including IT, mathematics, business administration or communication design—participants in the Smart Factory Hackathon will take on real‑life tasks from the areas of production and logistics in groups of three to five persons. The teams will then make short pitches of their ideas to the public and the jury. One example is the idea of the winning team in 2016, Happy Unicorns.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 24, 2010

What does personal transportation look like in a new century, when more than 60 percent of the world's citizens live in cities and the number of vehicles on the globe could rise to 2 billion? Would future urbanites accept the idea of moving around in pod-shaped electric two-seaters with only two wheels?

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And my personal experience working with certain Democrats at the local level helped convince me that they weren’t worthy of my loyalty or support any longer. Peterson says he wants to “rein in the EPA.&# Yeah, that’s a much better idea than reining in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Our goal isn’t to generate a vast number of creative ideas which, in a worst case scenario, are just going to end up in a drawer. We are looking for people and young companies that are able to work with us to transform innovative ideas quickly and successfully into initial working prototypes. Cargo space optimisation (solutions@vans): ideas and solutions relating to the cargo space, such as automated racking systems, and the optimisation of loading and unloading processes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

UAM combines Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) and urban air mobility services to make airspace available for transportation. Hyundai’s future mobility vision stems from the idea that mobility is closely related to city infrastructure. UAM enables runway-free urban air travel with Personal Air Vehicles capable of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). Hyundai also unveiled its first concept Personal Air Vehicle today, named ‘S-A1’.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The lab will explore business ideas and technologies to revolutionize a value chain encompassing R&D, business and production for future mobility solutions. With a strong track record for open innovation, Singapore is an ideal location for Hyundai to test its innovative ideas such as HMGICs. Of the two pillars, Smart Mobility Services will be a key future growth driver for Hyundai, bringing together devices and services to offer customers a personalized mobility lifestyle.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

JANUARY 28, 2008

The technical support person at Iota was extremely responsive and provided accurate information. I actually didn't mind purchasing my own hardware, but I had no idea where to get some of the more obscure items. I lost much sleep last night obsessing about how I could fix the DC-DC converter and, as a result, I was very tired and had an irritable day.

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Dave Snowden

DECEMBER 23, 2017

You’ve sweated through the early adopter phase and you are starting to make process then someone (or often more than one person) sweeps down on the novel idea and purloins the language to give a fresh lick of paint to a set of familiar, but tired methods or tools without first dealing with the rust. Now the older ways are at the tail end of their life cycle, the rust will come back, but the main damage is to the new idea which is now assimulated into the old way of working.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 17, 2009

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. The idyllic island kingdom of Tonga. My friend Elizabeth is from the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga, an exotic locale long fixed in my memory with images of Polynesian paradise. Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

“Nissan is really committing to this idea, and I think they’re going to be proven right.&#. The first of the three models costs as much to develop as three normal cars, a person familiar with the situation says. We’ll finally get to see the new Nissan August 2nd. That’s Tokyo time, it’ll still be the 1st here.) I assume they’ll have the name finalized by then, too.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Automakers make most of their money by selling vehicles to individuals for personal transportation. For the millennial generation—the people that have grown up with connectivity—you look at the data for deodorant, toothbrushes and mobile phones, and you say that connectivity for this generation ranks up there with personal hygiene. I emphasize that ridesharing is not going to replace personal vehicle ownership anytime soon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The driver can communicate with the person in question and in future will also be able to open the door, no matter where they happen to be, and without even needing to touch the phone. The idea itself is not new, but achieving it from a moving car is.

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Hybrid SUV Blog

MARCH 7, 2012

It bills itself as a “a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”. The type of person who views and shares material online through YouTube and iTunes is typically a member of Generation Y. New cars are traditionally introduced at auto shows.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2011

And my personal experience working with certain Democrats at the local level helped convince me that they weren’t worthy of my loyalty or support any longer. ” Yeah, that’s a much better idea than reining in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2017

Our goal is to explore new ways to improve access to transportation and personalize the experience to each person's unique abilities. The research revealed that meeting the needs of a growing aging population will require new technologies, partnerships, ideas and business models. At CES 2017, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation announced an alliance with IBM and Local Motors to help create the world’s most accessible, self-driving vehicle.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." And personally I like better simple solutions. Neutral RoboDan @ Apr 19th 2009 5:22PM I was JUST about to say that - I wonder what Tesla things about this complicated plug idea Highly Ranked TRAFFICBLOWS @ Apr 19th 2009 5:23PM Oh, you didnt hear about the "Made for Tesla" adapter certification program yet?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

An Electric Fan Turns out, though, she isnt a cop but instead a personal fitness trainer. This is an aerodynamic tour de force designed by a boat builder and a biotech engineer who were swept away by the idea of a commuter vehicle that would be both fun to drive and environmentally friendly. That's about all I am concerned with personally. Photo by Scott Jacobs) (Enlarge photo) Imagine an airplane stripped of its flight surfaces and youll get the idea of the Aptera.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The joint venture will focus on ensuring the personal freedom of customers in the field of urban mobility. The idea is to create the most attractive, most comprehensive mobility solution for a better life in the connected world. The BMW Group and Daimler AG are planning the next steps for their joint mobility company ( earlier post ), following approval by the responsible authorities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. GM is at the forefront of redefining the future of personal mobility. As Maven grows, the team will use innovative ways of connecting personally with customers. General Motors announced a new car-sharing service it calls Maven , which combines and expands the company’s multiple programs under a single brand.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The peer-to-peer car-sharing platform is another example of a CASE strategy project that has advanced from idea to implementation. When Croove is first launched, it will be possible to either collect the vehicle in person or pay extra for a pickup and delivery service. Consideration is also being given to the idea of introducing a keyless solution in future, which would allow the hirer to collect the vehicle using a PIN code.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

In January GM announced the Volt, a smart idea that makes use of the two existing primary energy infrastructures - the electric grid and gasoline stations. There is probably no single greater step one could personally take to reduce carbon emissions, smog, and our petroleum dependence than switching to a plug-in hybrid or an electric car.

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