Category: Electric Vehicles / Transportation
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), in partnership with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., has announced seven finalist cities, from a field of 78 submittals in a nationwide competition, for the DOT’s Smart City Challenge. The Smart City Challenge is designed to help cities begin to address the challenges that many […]
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Recognizing that not everyone is yet ready to purchase an all-electric vehicle, but faced with regulatory requirements to meet increasingly stringent fuel economy standards in many jurisdictions around the world, tier 1 suppliers including Johnson Controls are offering auto manufacturers a 48-volt battery system to enable “micro-hybrid” vehicles. These systems offer
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Faraday Future, the cutting-edge EV developer, announced on March 1 it has earned its first U.S. Patent, No. 9,241,428-B1, for a power inverter the company calls the “FF Echelon Inverter.” An inverter is an electronic device that changes direct current to alternating current and is an integral component in battery-powered vehicles. In
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Cheniere Energy expects the first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) export from the lower 48 U.S. states will depart the company’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana today. The ship is headed to Petrobas, in Brazil. Cheniere has six LNG vessels under contract, and will use them to continue exporting gas in the
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China has announced that, in furtherance of upgrading its auto industry, curbing pollution, and reducing reliance on imported oil, it will rely on “mass entrepreneurship and innovation to make key technological breakthroughs” in electric vehicles (EVs) and related technologies. After falling short of its 2015 goals for EV adoption, the central
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