Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Drive Oregon. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

USB ports now are standard on personal computers and are built into many other electronic devices such as smartphones, eBook readers, and game consoles. The ubiquitous USB standard has been commemorated with an IEEE Milestone. The IEEE Oregon Section sponsored the nomination. USB ports are now standard in computers.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I Test lead Hal Bryan says the effort demanded long hours for testing various 3D accelerators, which had yet to settle on common standards.

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Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2022

The designers of the floating-point adder and multiplier units made the logic for rounding off numbers conform to IEEE standards, which slowed performance. s computers, for example, reject those standards to boost performance.) will be using the i860 in personal-computer graphics boards. Cray Research Inc.’s By 9:30 p.m.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars.

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