EV Connect Pilots Large US V2G Project
EV Connect and its partners are launching a V2G project designed to find out whether bi-directional charging is practical in real world use.
Austin uses virtual reality to train first responders
The City of Austin has partnered with local start-up Augmented Training Systems to develop programmes that allows skills to be quickly refreshed, without needing the physical equipment or set-up.
IIHS Dishonestly Using Speed Limits To Bash ADAS
A recent study by IIHS tries to frame Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) like Tesla’s Autopilot as potentially dangerous, because drivers speed more often while using the systems. The study’s authors found that drivers using no assist features speed 77% of the time, while people using adaptive cruise speed 95% of the time and people…
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Southeast Energy Exchange Market is the first step for renewable project developers
Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) is the latest effort by utilities in the southeast to organize themselves to realize cost savings with scale. Until now, an energy imbalance market from the west is a living market model for multi-state governance and market participation. None of the southeast or west models go as far as the…
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“What Moves People?” Drives NREL Mobility Behavioral Scientist To Find Answers
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Patricia (Paty) Romero-Lankao arrived in Colorado in 2006 and found her way to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2018 to grow a new mobility behavioral science capability. “How people behave and make decisions are social science questions, not technical ones,” Romero-Lankao said. Understanding what factors influence people’s choices…
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Join The CleanTechnica Community – Officially!
Dear Readers, This community we call CleanTechnica is an important one to all who make it possible, and we know it’s important to all of our readers, as well. Our goal is to impact the climate crisis by diligently covering all things clean tech every single day, and we’ve been hard at work towards this…
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Some Questions About The Tesla Interior Camera
In a recent tweet, The Drive writer Rob Stumpf asks some important questions about some recent Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) Beta news. In another tweet, Elon Musk affirmed that the Model 3 and Model Y interior camera was used for driver monitoring for FSD Beta users, and that was a surprise for most. “We…
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Largest “agrivoltaic” research project underway in Colorado
Today, Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals announced that it supplied its tracker solution for Jack’s Solar Garden, a 1.2-MW community solar farm and the largest agrivoltaic research project in the U.S., located in Boulder County, Colorado. The solar project was designed and built by Namasté Solar. Jack’s sits on five acres of…
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Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
Matt Day / Bloomberg:Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding digital medical consultations to its employees across the U.S. and says it will start offering the service to other…
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Stack Overflow says it will add a free tier to its Teams service, limited to 50 users, and it has 1,500 Teams customers, including Microsoft and Box (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:Stack Overflow says it will add a free tier to its Teams service, limited to 50 users, and it has 1,500 Teams customers, including Microsoft and Box — Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP…
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