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Los Angeles launches New Mobility Challenge 2018

Green Car Congress

For the second year running, Los Angeles is inviting innovative and environmentally-friendly entrepreneurs from around the world to push the envelope on urban mobility solutions from ride-sharing and zero-emission electric bikes and scooters to self-driving vehicles and flying cars. Revenues of up to $5 million.

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Testing and refining EV charging standards: Q&A with CharIN’s Executive Director

Charged EVs

Bidirectional charging, the Megawatt Charging System for heavy-duty EVs, the standardization of Tesla’s charging system, and new initiatives to improve the reliability of public chargers—all of these innovations will completely transform the charging scene for the better. Is that an accurate description?

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Testing and refining EV charging standards: Q&A with CharIN’s Executive Director – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Bidirectional charging, the Megawatt Charging System for heavy-duty EVs, the standardization of Tesla’s charging system, and new initiatives to improve the reliability of public chargers—all of these innovations will completely transform the charging scene for the better. Is that an accurate description?

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

Former CEO of American Electric Power Life senior member, 94; died 4 July. After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. Except for a short period volunteering for the Defense Electric Power Administration during the Korean War, he spent his entire career at AEP. Pete" White Jr.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The thumb drive was all that—and more. With all these advantages, it effectively ended the era of the floppy disk. $7 7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. The impact from plug-in electric vehicles on the grid could be very substantial.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Transform our energy supply base to low CO 2 fuels because “ eventually our environmental damage [needs to be] brought under control but my concern is that is all we talk about ,” Heywood advised—and transformational changes take decades, not years, to implement. “ We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future.

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