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Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center

Cars That Think

Putting a data center right next to a power plant so that it can draw electricity from it directly, rather than from the grid, is becoming more common as data centers seek out cheap, steady, carbon-free power. Whether you’re talking about Google or Apple or Microsoft or any of those companies, they tend to have corporate sustainability goals.

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Audi investing ~€100M in charging infrastructure at German sites; 10% of parking spaces by mid-2022

Green Car Congress

A dynamic and intelligent load-management system will be controlling all power input across sites this year already, so the power connection does not need be expanded. megawatts is connected to the grid here. Invoicing via online systems and the integration in an internal settlement system are further services.

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ORNL researchers use stop-light cameras to reduce fuel consumption of less-efficient vehicles via traffic management

Green Car Congress

The bell-shaped cameras connect to processor units running GRIDSMART client software that provides municipal traffic engineers with very detailed information, from traffic metrics to unobstructed views of accidents. So, where to find a larger, fine-grained vehicle dataset? Eicholtz, J. Price, and T. 2470-1173.2020.6.IRIACV-070

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Hyundai introduces 2018 Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models at Chicago Auto Show

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Although the powertrains remain the same, the new Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid feature a comprehensive exterior and interior redesign, safety, suspension and new and improved infotainment and connectivity features. Sonata Hybrid SE has preliminary internal estimates of 39 mpg (6.03 Next-Generation Blue Link Connected Car System.

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Hyundai introduces US market version of Kona Electric at New York show; 250-mile range

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In addition, Kona Electric energy efficiency is internally-estimated at 117 MPGe, superior to Nissan Leaf (112 MPGe), Tesla Model S (104 MPGe), and Tesla Model X (93 MPGe). cubic feet of rear cargo volume, exactly the same volume as the Kona with an internal combustion engine. Advanced infotainment and connectivity.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

They are also much more efficient with the energy they do use compared to an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. The UK also hopes to connect more and more EVs to the electricity grid to share power at peak times, in something called vehicle to grid charging (V2G). DriveElectric Dictionary Definition .

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.