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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

Green Car Congress

The Low VMT case assumes an environment in which travel choices made by drivers result in lower demand for personal vehicle travel, consistent with the recent trend. Since 2000, VMT per licensed driver for the population under 20 has dropped by 13%. —below the 1.7% rate from 1995 to 2005 but higher than the 0.7%

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. That legislation led to conversations between the landlords and the tenants, or the owners and the associations,” he explained.

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Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators

Cars That Think

Food and Drug Administration in 2000. To become a surgeon, a person must first spend four years in medical school and then. Airline pilots became familiar with this issue as autopilot became ubiquitous, and the promise of self-driving cars is bringing this conversation to the general public.

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Human Horizons aims to be more than just an EV startup in China

China EV

Take my recent conversation with James Shyr, chief design officer and a founding partner of Human Horizons, a Shanghai-based company. We met in the early 2000’s when he was design director at the Pan-Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), the SAIC-GM joint venture design and engineering center in Shanghai. The Hypervelocity concept.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere. Why Power Conversion Matters in Climate Calculations Before we get to the semiconductors themselves, let’s first consider why we need them.

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