Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In his 1949 book The Concept of Mind , Gilbert Ryle, an English philosopher, introduced the term “category mistake.” He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?”

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A lot of parking lots have been converted to LED lights, and during that conversion, the electricity draw on that circuit was decreased, because the LEDs use less current, so you have a little excess capacity in that circuit, and if you tie into that, now you can cover things like cloudy days or rainy days much better.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 16, 2023

EDT IEEE President and CEO Saifur Rahman kicks off Education Week with a session on how the organization can serve as a vital connection between policymakers and the engineering and technology communities in bringing technological solutions to meet the universal challenge of climate change.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2024

Electrification has its sustainability challenges,” notes Daniel Ludois , a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Bernard Cohen for his 1990 book Benjamin Franklin’s Science ). Their current prototype is capable of delivering torque as high as 18 newton meters and power at 360 watts (0.5

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The European Green Deal , which plans for an enormous build-out of Europes transmission network by 2030 to accelerate electrification, is imperiled by the protracted wait times for transformers, says Joannes Laveyne , an electrical engineer and energy-systems expert at Ghent University, in Belgium. Their very durability shoulders the grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

They reach out from their exhibit case to spark conversations with visitors: “I remember Grandma having a slide rule like that.” I encountered this funny-looking calculator during a recent visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge. Which brings me to the object at top.

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Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2023

journalism, Michigan State University Family: Eric Nee (husband); Alex, Nadya, and Mischa Nee (children) First job: Community datebook writer at WBRW Radio in Somerville, N.J., He recommended a few books, I followed up on those, and my somewhat confusing family history fell into place.” Perry Residence: Palo Alto, Calif.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2023

Helping people resolve the disputes that arise in rolling conversations—when intensity of emotion does not necessarily track to the gravity of the issue—is still a central concern for me today,” says Zittrain. Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Luckily for us, theres an entire universe of experts who share their savvy in booking award travel, and at the forefront is Brian Kelly, who founded the travel website The Points Guy in 2010. For Mr. Kelly, 41, it started with the childhood challenge of booking travel for his family. If the price is the same, book direct.

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

Goldsmith is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences, and King Liu is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley ’s C ollege of Engineering. The conversation on career advice continued at the Innovation and Collaboration in Leading Technology Laboratories panel.

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Cars That Think

MAY 6, 2023

Milner was working on neuropsychology at McGill University , in Montreal, although he had trained as an electrical engineer. Gloria remembered a conversation between her husband and Ray, in which Marvin expressed a thought that later became one of his hallmarks: “You need to see something in more than one way to understand it.”

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The conversation could have stopped there, but Robert Hale, a research engineer, took the concern seriously and helped Warren set up an experimental demonstration at the L Street station. Clocks 1925–1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2000) is the definitive book on Warren clocks, documenting over 700 models of Telechron and GE clocks.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And there they would have stayed without a chance conversation and assistance from some very capable librarians and archivists. Fortunately, our building is located across the street from the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Surely, its staff would know how to handle a flexi disc!

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Since then, the internet has turned most of us into our own travel agents, and artificial intelligence software is making research and self-booking even easier. What can an adviser give me that a booking site can’t? But for some trips, that special insider knowledge can still make a big difference. Here are some tips.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2025

based tour company Wilderness Travel said bookings on its winter trip to Iceland largely driven by northern lights seekers have been up 130 percent each year on average since 2021. Scott Engle, an assistant professor of astrophysics and planetary science at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., The Berkeley, Calif.-based

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All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

You might have read my recent review of her book - The New Social Learning. If you haven't picked up the book yet, please do; it's an absolute must read for every learning professional in this world. They use D-Street as a core component of their corporate university and is a huge part of their organisational infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He also observed, in a conversation on the eve of the LAAS, that if an automaker can launch a defining product, the game changes. Conversely, if the rear axle has less grip, the opposite happened; up to 7% of the torque is correspondingly diverted to the front axle. plug-in hybrid or full electric—models by 2025. Earlier post. ).

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Impacts of Vehicle to Grid on power quality (DC – AC conversion and power injection happens) You may start as follows. Tech student my project is: High efficiency bridgeless single power conversion battery charger for light electric vehicles which is based on transaction paper. EV-related books would also be helpful.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

prismatic cells—each of them about half the size of a paperback book—or long, flat pouch cells. Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. The module weighs around 13 kilograms (28.7 It can accommodate three types of cell: round cells such as those used in the R8 e-tron 2.0;

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A lot of parking lots have been converted to LED lights, and during that conversion, the electricity draw on that circuit was decreased, because the LEDs use less current, so you have a little excess capacity in that circuit, and if you tie into that, now you can cover things like cloudy days or rainy days much better.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Not so fast, exclaim researchers at Stanford University, who state that charging EVs during the day is actually cheaper, better for the grid, and healthier for the environment. The result is a 12-part series and e-book, The EV Transition Explained , that explores the tightly woven technological, policy, and social issues involved.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. We're back with my guest Jim Cortada, a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute and author of a comprehensive corporate history of IBM.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Already the world’s biggest producer and exporter of sugar, farmers reaped the benefits of this new demand.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions. In our conversations, Roberto truly shined. The organization supports Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For his new book Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025), Colias gives readers an inside look at the shift from pistons to electrons. He tends to sprinkle his conversations with f-bombs. With an electric motor, theres really not that much to it, he said.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. Comutacar : Scott HullsC-cars and upgrades DaihatsuFellow Van : Interesting Japanese conversion. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway.

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Cars That Think

MAY 23, 2023

I’m senior editor Stephen Cass, and today I’m talking with a former Spectrum editor, Sally Adee, about her new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome. But before that, a number of the researchers I spoke to for this book told me that they had started to see it in papers that they were reviewing.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. The Conversation [link] accessed 4/6/2020. Why not simply use the electricity directly to charge electric cars via the already available distribution network – the electricity grid?

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In He shifted base to Mysore and became a student of the LLB program of Mysore university. Our booking was mistakenly done for the same day checkout. It’s a Zen feeling.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. To sit at a terminal and with a few keystrokes be connected through the TIP, to the ARPANET, and then to applications running on computers at dozens of universities and research facilities must have felt like a visit to an alien world.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. April 12, 2009 2:08 pm Link Obama’s “Social Democratic&# dream will be further unveiled after the failure of GM and Chrysler is certain and on the books. Lead batts are around 98% recycled. — jerryd 7. Next: a carbon tax.

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