Cars That Think

JULY 1, 2025

Angel Rodriguez uses a transformer from an old television to charge a battery in preparation for blackouts at his home in the Bahia neighborhood of Havana, Cuba on May 26, 2025. Pilot projects for wind farms are underway. Ramon Espinosa/AP But development lacks scale and speed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). The Net-Zero Neighborhood. Net-Zero Neighborhoods. An Energy Plan Only A Scientist Could Love or Net-Zero Neighborhoods or ?

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. The Tesla Solar neighborhood was provisionally named SunHouse at Easton Park. Easton Park is a 2,400-acre community southwest of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as per the Austin Business Journal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2022

Urban Production is an international architecture competition organized by the BMW Group in close cooperation with the City of Munich. BMW Group Plant Munich future Vision Urban Production with neighborhood. The aim is to realize outstanding, future-ready production in the urban setting of the company’s home plant in Munich.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

In addition, the international research and development team is working on the low-cost iron-salt battery, the properties of which make it particularly suitable for ensuring base load capability for wind and solar farms. In addition, product development of the iron-salt technology will be accelerated towards commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2011

The VX-2 is a smaller and slimmer version of the VX-1 bike and is designed for lower-speed urban, neighborhood, and small-town trips. The VX-2 is the electric equivalent of a 50cc internal combustion engine scooter. Vectrix LLC has officially launched its battery-electric scooter, the VX-2. New Vectrix VX-2 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The companies will assess how EV batteries perform in their “second lives,” including stationary applications in homes, neighborhoods and commercial buildings. In January 2010, ITOCHU became the first international board member of the Energy Systems Network, the Indianapolis-based organization behind Project Plug-IN.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

Of course the truth is we never stopped working or even took any time off since the October 24 International Day of Climate Action. You say you’d like to see that presentation? Here it is as presented to the Green Task Force. And speaking of work, it was a great week for the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group and for 350.org

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will unveil its el-Born electric vehicle concept at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. The SEAT el-Born concept fuses the core aspects driving change in the automotive industry: electrification, autonomous driving, shared-mobility and connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

international border. Under the Line 3 Replacement Program, the majority of the existing Line 3 pipeline—which has been in service since 1968—will be fully replaced with new pipeline and associated facilities on either side of the Canada-U.S. The total length of the pipeline replacement is 1,031 miles (1,660 km).

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Wisconsin North Dakota Neighborhood Oil 246

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The plow, a modified 2009 International Model 7300 Hybrid, could be in service by next week. The Road & Bridge Division will use it primarily in urban and neighborhood environments where the snowplow’s ability to conserve gas while stopping and starting is most valuable.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

Mol Transport Solutions represents the fourth international dealer agreement Balqon has established since the first of the year. In June, Balqon entered into an agreement with Electric Cars of Costa Rica, a distributor of light duty trucks, golf carts, trams and neighborhood electric vehicles in Costa Rica.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

In a study based on the performance of currently available electric vehicles, performed by Dr. Valentin Robu and Dr. Sebastien Stein, the mechanism was shown to increase the number of electric vehicles that can be charged overnight, within a neighborhood of 200 homes, by as much as 40%. Enrico Gerding, lead author. Gerding, E., In Press).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Battelle staff developed the new Grid Command Distribution software internally as part of its work over the past two years as part of an ongoing smart grid demonstration project in Ohio: AEP Ohio’s gridSMART program, sponsored by the DOE.

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Grid Ohio Volt Neighborhood 257

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

It is well known that not all neighborhoods and communities use Boston 311 at the same rate, yet 311 is a major driver of how some City resources are allocated. This results in high internal and external costs and immense efforts to keep the information up-to-date.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Credits are based on vehicle type: full zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), excluding low-speed, neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs); NEVs; Enhanced AT PZEVs (e.g., ZEV credit balances. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge. plug-in hybrids); AT PZEVs (e.g., hybrids); and PZEVs (low-emission conventional vehicles). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2011

While plug-in electric vehicles will not threaten the integrity of the power grid as a whole, they will have an immediate local impact on neighborhood distribution infrastructure. EVs are expected to be purchased in clusters around neighborhoods that have historically seen high adoption of hybrid vehicles, Pike notes in the report.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

ARPA-E believes that high-efficiency gensets at these kW e ranges represent critical enabling modules toward commercializing reliable (24x7x365) and economical small-scale systems for distributed power generation and combined heat-and-power for the single family, neighborhood, and small commercial segments.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in neighborhoods with higher amounts of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution were at least 6% more likely to report having glaucoma than those in the least-polluted areas, according to the findings published in an open-access paper in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Chua, Anthony P. Dick, Peng T.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2023

—Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr Through the initiative, Hertz aims to: Bring up to 5,200 rental EVs to Denver, for availability to Hertz customers and rideshare drivers; Increase charging capacity at the Denver International Airport and at Hertz locations through installation of a mix of Level 2 and fast chargers; In partnership with bp pulse, a global (..)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2014

The images in the first row show detection and tracking results from an arriving area of Pittsburgh international airport. Sample images of urban driving and screen-captures of the Autonomoous SRX’s tracking system’s results. The other two images in the second row show those of an urban street. 2014) Click to enlarge. Cho, Young-Woo Seo, B.V.K

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

The trucks, the first hydraulic hybrids in Peapod’s fleet of approximately 130 vehicles in the Midwest, are expected to reduce fuel consumption, reduce brake maintenance costs and cut emissions significantly in Peapod service neighborhoods.

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Baua Electric

JULY 5, 2023

The electrical-car producer received momentum in the beginning of the time when it slashed costs of its in the neighborhood constructed Fashion 3 sedans and Fashion Y SUVs. The post Tesla’s June shipments in China leap as international gross sales clash file appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2021

According to the Model 3 Performance owner, a Model S Plaid has been spotted around his neighborhood for the past two months, so it might have been produced earlier this year. Musk clarified that deliveries depended on Tesla’s ability to ramp supply chain and internal production processes.

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San Francisco Tesla Neighborhood IDEA 145

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

DARPA officials unveiled the new Challenge before some 8000 engineers and communications professionals gathered in Las Vegas at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Switzerland-based electric vehicle (EV) startup unveiled the new, more affordable Microlino Lite at the Geneva International Automotive Show this week, sporting a slightly slower top speed and shorter range than its older sibling, the Microlino. as a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) as soon as the end of this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

The new truck, known internally as “Beta,” expands on the capabilities of Toyota’s first Project Portal test vehicle by increasing the estimated range to more than 300 miles per fill. Our goal with the first truck was to see if it could be accomplished, and we did that. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 3, 2023

billion under the new rules, while the bill at Stellantis would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.0 which helps American Automakers deliver on commitments by representing Ford, GM, and Stellantis on “common public policy interests” at the federal and international levels.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It will also assess the asteroid’s internal structure and the local environment and debris field. Juventas carries a radar which will map the asteroid’s internal structure. Together, Hera, DART, and future missions will help us develop the tools to protect Earth from threats in our cosmic neighborhood.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 4, 2021

It is as if they have fallen for the BMW suggestion that electric driving is nice for neighborhood shopping and driving the kids to school, but for serious driving you need an internal combustion engine vehicle. As I wrote before, Renault managers still have trouble understanding what is happening in the car market.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2015

As reported in a paper in the International Journal of Engine Research , the hybrid method, which combines both particle swarm optimization (PSO) and genetic algorithm (GA) methods was able to locate a narrow window of operation which showed 27% lower NO x emissions and 60% lower particulate matter emissions than a standard PSO method.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

Fleets going electric will reduce neighborhood noise EVs also bring financial incentives through the federal tax credit. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says an EV can get a credit of up to $7,500 when consumers select a qualifying car. EVs have fewer moving parts, meaning there is a lesser chance of malfunctioning.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate ( earlier post ) remains an indispensable driver of electric vehicle policies worldwide, unique in its ability to foster technology-neutral research and development, according to a new report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Baua Electric

MAY 8, 2024

Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. The ordinance, he said, was aimed at dealing with “behavior that impacts on residential neighborhoods” and with takeaway alcoholic drinks, which are seen as the main reason late-night revelers linger on certain streets and squares.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2025

The lobby of Shutters on the Beach , the luxury oceanfront hotel in Santa Monica that is usually abuzz with tourists and entertainment professionals, had by Thursday transformed into a refuge for Los Angeles residents displaced by the raging wildfires that have ripped through thousands of acres and leveled entire neighborhoods to ash.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

NEV stands for neighborhood electric vehicle, which can travel at a top speed of 25 mph. The Society of Automotive Engineers International recently published guidelines to standardize the shape of the plug and sockets for safely powering up electric vehicles.

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