Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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Water Energy Austin Polymer 129

Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. A solar electricity system for a community garden At the Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden in Columbus Ohio, Damon Nabrit [right] shows a participant how a FarmBot works.

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Environment North Carolina Climate Change Columbus 74

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. Phoenix, Ariz., This situation is not true universally. Or we can’t even have one EV charger go in.”

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Grid United States Charging Gas-Electric 114

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144.

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Alternative Fuels Clean Cleaning Grant 236

Charged EVs

APRIL 19, 2023

This is your Lightning eMotors, Motiv, Phoenix Motors—early days. This is LADWP [Los Angeles Department of Water and Power] and this is LAWA, so you’d imagine that there’s some sort of priority. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. Charged : What about solar+storage?

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Charging Fleet Electric Electrical 71

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The PUMA looks like it might sell well in university and corporate campuses and those large empty subdivisions in SoCal and Vegas. by ChefTom56 April 7, 2009 7:16 AM PDT This is a great concept, except in the winter in most cities and the summer in Phoenix, so this will only be a part-time ride in the most optimistic sense possible.

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