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Fundamental Energy Transitions Can Take a Century

Cars That Think

I will demonstrate this by looking at a few key developments in electricity generation and residential consumption in the United States, which has reliable statistics for all but the earliest two decades of the electric period. This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Electricity’s Slow Rollout.”.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. believe it means the individual connection / charger / port / hardware. For one, clarity and consistency is critical for sharing statistics and making comparisons.

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Pfizer’s Edge in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Data Science

Cars That Think

Pfizer dominated news headlines and family dinner conversations last December when it became the first company to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Then we have other tools that enable us to connect the instruments, robotics and statistical modeling. We also use R for statistical analysis. We're heavy users of SAS.

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EV charging is changing, Part 1: How automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms

Charged EVs

Every person we spoke with wanted to talk—to vent, even—and to share conversations they’d had and anecdotes they’d heard from others in the business. EA has steadfastly refused to discuss its reliability statistics, offering years of bland reassurances that things are improving.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. We are suggesting that the variation in power and energy from renewable sources can be managed much more easily and economically with the batteries in PHEVs when they are plugged into the grid with a low power connection. Appendix A: PHEV compared to BEV for a zero CO 2 Society. slow charge.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

The connections blanketed an area of Manhattan running from East 38th Street to East 96th Street, a swath of the city’s most expensive real estate. Some—like the burlesque artist Ann Corio , whose phone conversations were recorded in a dragnet search for incriminating information on prominent midtown residents—were the targets of blackmail.