Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

NASA and GM have a history of partnering on key technologies, starting in the 1960s with the development of the navigation systems for the Apollo missions. Tags: Brief. GM also played a vital role in the development of the Lunar Rover Vehicle, the first vehicle to be used on the moon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The EV-N is a small, 4-seater battery electric vehicle, inspired by the N360, Honda’s 360cc micro car launched in the 1960s. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids. Honda will also reveal two more concepts at the show. It features solar panels in the roof, which could be used to help to charge the on-board battery. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 28, 2022

The laws of physics haven’t changed since the 1960s. billion each – “a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable.” “There are certain fundamental aspects of deep space exploration that are really independent of money,” says Jim Geffre , Orion Vehicle Integration Manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Who hasn’t?”

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 5, 2007

The same lithium batteries without which Honda's much heralded Clarity who chug along like a quiet 1960s era VW bug. Tags: honda fuel cell. Except to point out that Honda's FCV rep actually got hissed as he dissed lithium batteries. That means,” said one bystander, “that Honda’s picking up the other $600,000 on each vehicle.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Sodium-beta batteries have been around since the 1960s. Ford initially developed such sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries in the late 1960s and 1970s for electrical vehicle applications, but halted the work in the mid 1990s. Tags: Batteries. One common NBB cathode is molten sulfur. 2009.11.120.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

Available records indicate that as much as 3 million pounds of uranium oxide were produced from burning high uranium lignitic coals in the late 1960s and early 1970s in North Dakota alone. Tags: Brief. NuCoal presentation (2 Sept 2009).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

They found that the ratio of record daily high to record daily low temperatures slightly exceeded one to one in the 1950s, dipped below that level in the 1960s and 1970s, and has risen since the 1980s. Tags: Brief. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi, Guy Walton, David Easterling, and Larry McDaniel.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 26, 2016

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn in the early 1960s once a week we used to burn everyone’s garbage in incinerators that every apartment building had. Real leadership is coming from The Carson Coalition and Communities for a Better Environment and from all the Bernie Sanders for President supporters.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The probability of an exploratory oil well being successful was 20% in 1949 and just 16% in the late 1960s, but by 2007 that figure had risen to 69%; today it’s around 50%, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Firstly, the EV-N battery electric vehicle, which is inspired by the N360 micro car that was launched in the 1960s, will make an appearance. Tags: Green cars Honda Latest news. Two more Honda concepts will also make their debut at the event. Also making its debut will be the Skydeck concept – a six-seat hybrid MPV.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The cross-party interest in a ‘green technology revolution’ is a new corporatist agenda with as little hope as the ‘white heat’ of the 1960s, Reform says. Tags: Green credentials Reform research road to recovery transport.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 22, 2022

In a world that hadn’t seen a monochrome display in a very long time—TVs made the switch in the 1960s, computer monitors in the late ’80s—a monochrome display was definitely quaintly old school. Yet its limitation was obvious—images could appear only in black and white. This technology was first launched in 2013 for retail ESLs.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Two years on, its questionable as to whether that tag can still apply, but there’s no denying the appeal of the production version of this model. The EV-N has a retro design not dissimilar to the Trabant and is said to be based on the 1960s N360 hatch. Keep your eyes peeled too for the Honda EV-N and Honda Skydeck concepts.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Customized Detroit vans from the 1960s and 1970s , of course ! The build tag says it was built at the Lorain plant in Ohio. What kind of discarded vehicles look like they'd have the most interesting stories to tell? Today's Junkyard Find is just such a van, a Colorado second-generation Econoline called BIG CHEESE.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

In the 1960s, as part of an international collaboration, a U.S. And while support for these operations varies by country, the demand for new data is outpacing the ability of crewed aircraft to collect it—at least with a price tag that doesn’t put it out of reach for all but the most well-funded operations.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. military’s Advanced Research Projects Agency), where he and others had funded the heyday of computer research in the mid- and late 1960s. Xerox had the first electronic raffle nationwide.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

The computer, and the office, of the future Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” So the broad vision for computing’s future was well in place when, at the close of the 1960s, Xerox decided to create a new corporate R&D laboratory.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Although I’m happy to be rid of some of the disastrous 1960s design missteps—seriously, only one electrical receptacle in the entire kitchen?—I With that price tag, it was obviously meant to impress. As I write this month’s article, my house is a noisy, dusty construction zone. Note the handy recipe drawer at the bottom.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

GM will never again have 60% of the US market like it did in the 1960s but if they maintain their focus, they can regain the “Mark of Excellence”. Tags: Fuel Cells Fuel Efficiency Perspective Plug-ins Vehicle Manufacturers. Bill Cooke has been an engineer and manager at Ford and Visteon.].

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 15, 2009

I’ve been reading them every day since the 1960s and I’ve learned more from newspapers than I ever learned in school. Tags: environment. I’ve had a lifelong love affair with newspapers. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I read the New York Daily News after my parents were done reading it. Seth’s right.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2010

Polyimides have been a key class of polymers for DuPont since the 1960s, when Kapton film and Vespel parts and shapes were first commercialized. Tags: Engines Plastics. The low levels of friction on the surface help prevent the formation of grime deposits. Martin Barth. DuPont Vespel SP-2515 (DuPont 2009).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The cell is charged in an end-of-line machine that looks like a 1960s computer. Tags: Batteries. The cell is the smallest functional unit in a lithium-ion battery system. It is sealed and cannot be repaired. Finished cell. Each “channel” can charge / monitor one cell. Volvo C30 battery pack. . Volvo C30 eDrive.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Porsche Taycan – base rear-drive single motor version of the ballistic Taycan Turbo and Turbo S (there’s also a 4S ) arrives late in 2021 with a sub-$160K price tag. Scout SUV and pickup truck – classic 1960s/70s brand originally started by tractor maker International Harvester will be born again by new owner Volkswagen.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 4, 2009

The number of dead zones—areas with too little oxygen to support life—has doubled every decade since the 1960s. Tags: environment. Each day, the oceans absorb 30 million tons of CO2, increasing their acidity. The oceans are warming about 50% faster than the IPCC reported in 2007.

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