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AUGUST 1, 2011

Tomorrow, Chrysler Group LLC will present 14 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to the City of San Francisco as part of a three-year evaluation program. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 27, 2014

The University of North Carolina School of Government’s MPA@UNC program has produced an infographic on the 5 largest US public transit systems.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Volkswagen’s system relies on the D-Wave quantum annealer, a different kind of machine than the universal quantum computers under development by other firms, including Google. —Florian Neukart, Volkswagen Director for Advanced Technologies in San Francisco.

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JULY 18, 2025

Columbia University researchers introduce a process that allows machines to “grow” physically by integrating parts from their surroundings or from other robots, demonstrating a step toward self-sustaining robot ecologies.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Michigan State University introduced an electric autonomous bus that will serve students, staff and faculty beginning early 2022 as part of the campus’ smart mobility ecosystem. The bus represents one of the largest electric autonomous transit vehicles to be deployed on US roadways to date.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The University of Queensland, Australia (UQ) and US-based Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., a synthetic biology company focused on developing renewable hydrocarbon biofuels ( earlier post ), are partnering to explore potential business opportunities for the conversion of sugarcane into renewable jet fuel.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). The Top 15 LEAF markets nationally, rank-ordered (Nissan does not specify sales data down to the DMA level, but does suggest reasons for the sales performance): San Francisco.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

Academy of Art Universitys Auto Museum Cars To Be Auctioned A majority of the automobile collection from the San Francisco Academy of Art University will go under the gavel at auction next month (February 15, 2025). San Francisco, CA 94109 on Thursday and Friday, February 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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JULY 1, 2019

Among these flights were the three most frequently flown routes in the United Sates (New York to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to San Francisco, and Chicago to New York); the shortest flight that is code shared with a major U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Scientists at the University Claude Bernard Lyon have discovered a simple process for producing copious volumes of hydrogen. The researchers will present a paper on the discovery at the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco this week.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Nissan LEAF Zero Emission Tour will make stops in 22 cities, in 11 states, the District of Columbia, and Vancouver, Canada, offering the opportunity for interested drivers, media, civic partners, businesses and university students to learn more about the Nissan LEAF and the benefits of zero-emission driving. San Diego: Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

million Green Flight Challenge , scheduled for 2011 in San Francisco ( earlier post ), with its Hydrogenius fuel-cell aircraft being built there; the aircraft is to be equipped with Li-ion batteries for this competition. The Institute of Aircraft Design (IFB) at Universität Stuttgart is entering NASA’s $1.5

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MARCH 11, 2020

With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Fuel Chemistry has issued a call for papers for a Symposium on Fuel Chemistry and Electrochemistry for Fuel Cells to be held in conjunction with the 239 th ACS National Meeting, 21-25 March 2010 in San Francisco. Abstracts and preprints for the symposium will be due 2 November 2009.

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MAY 14, 2013

Wheelz first introduced its service on college and university campuses throughout California before expanding to the urban centers of San Francisco and Los Angeles. DriveBox allows renters to reserve, find, and unlock a car in minutes all from a smartphone, without having to meet with the owner in person.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

The new Ford lab will be located in the San Francisco Bay area of California and will serve as a hub for independent technology projects and identification of new research investments and partners located along the west coast.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Colorado State University. $5. Missouri University of Science and Technology. $5. Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program: $39.1 DOE Award ($mil.). Technology.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Four of the areas—Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz—have 20 or more actions in place. Eleven of the metropolitan areas in this study have four or more major utility actions in place: Holland, Bridgeport, Atlanta, Athens, Austin, Honolulu, Kahului, San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Eureka.

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JULY 1, 2015

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have published two new policy briefs, along with accompanying videos, about the benefits of electrified vehicles and the potential for their adoption in the US. The briefs condense the findings of a number of recent papers coming out of the CMU group led by Professor Jeremy Michalek.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Wash., The ChargePoint America project will collect data characterizing vehicle use and charging patterns, and Purdue University and Idaho National Labs will analyze the data. Sacramento, Calif., and Washington DC.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The PDU will provide universities, national laboratories, and industry partners the opportunity to scale up promising processes discovered in their laboratories. The PDU is scheduled to be fully operational by early 2011, and multiple possible sites for the facility are now being considered in the San Francisco East Bay region.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Audi this week demonstrated some of the early concept results of the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project to media in San Francisco. The AUIA project was the latest in a series of research projects that Audi has formed with leading US universities. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure. The project includes $437,093 in match funding from Anaergia.

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JULY 30, 2010

Coulomb Technologies has installed its first Networked Charging Station for electric vehicles in San Jose, California from its $37 million ChargePoint America program ( earlier post ). the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Wash., Sacramento, Calif.,

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MAY 1, 2013

GM’s participation was announced today at the Ceres Conference in San Francisco. According to Gallup and Yale University polls, respectively, a majority of Americans believe climate change is occurring and that corporations, as well as government officials, should be doing more to address the issue.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Entries were judged on various criteria: creative adaptation of nature’s laws (plants & animals); application of human intelligence to Biomimicry in unique ways to improve the efficiency of future vehicles; comfort, convenience, aesthetics of the vehicle; sustainability of the building, servicing, operation, and life cycle; and the personality of the (..)

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have found a significant increase in e-scooter injuries and hospital admissions between 2014 and 2018—particularly over the last year—with people aged 18 to 34 years becoming the most injured group.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Sacramento is a perfect example of our inside out approach to developing markets that may not have the density of a New York or San Francisco. Zipcar has offered car sharing on the campus of the University of California, Davis since 2009, the City of Davis since 2010 and California State University - Sacramento since 2011.

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JULY 17, 2012

Fleura Bardhi (Northeastern University) and Giana M. University) interviewed users of the Zipcar car sharing service and found that. RelayRides pioneered peer-to-peer car sharing when it launched in Boston in June 2010 and expanded into San Francisco later that year. Eckhardt (Suffolk.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Cities taking part include San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and Berkeley, along with Marin County. 200,000 to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District. 200,000 to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

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MAY 16, 2012

The new FedEx all-electric (EV) vehicles are being deployed in the next few months in numerous locations which include California (the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and the Central Valley); suburban Washington, D.C. Rockville, M.D.); New York City and several locations in Texas.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

General Motors is working with communities such as San Francisco to develop a plan of action to establish the supporting technical and policy infrastructure required for broad commercialization of plug-in electric vehicles such as the upcoming Chevrolet Volt. Local Universities. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The initial cluster areas—requiring 45 stations—are Berkeley, San Francisco South Bay, Santa Monica/West Los Angeles, coastal Southern Orange County, and Torrance. The total cost to expand to 68 stations, and provide operations and maintenance support until the stations become profitable is estimated at $65 million.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Genesis will also invite University of Baja California (UABC) algae researchers to collaborate in the project. Ensenada’s Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE) will operate the Genesis site. The facility offers a team of researchers, laboratory equipment, and bench-scale algae cultivation infrastructure.

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