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Ford’s Solar C-MAX Car
At this week’s BERC-E meeting, some of BERC’s engineers discussed Ford’s design of the new C-Max Solar Energi car. The C-Max is designed as solar-powered hybrid that charges its battery during the day...
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE AUTOMOBILE
Cross-posted from Stanford Energy Journal Every day, the United States burns over 13 million barrels of oil to maintain its vast transportation system, with ~8.8 million barrels of that used for...
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Electric Cars Go Cross-Country
A common anxiety among potential electric vehicle (EV) drivers is being stranded in the middle of the road with an empty battery and no possibility of recharging. Similarly, another concern is that...
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Tesla News: Loses New Jersey, Plans to build a Gigafactory
Tesla Motors’ master plan is to expedite the conversion of an oil-based dependent economy to a solar-based electric economy. Some of the challenges are the lack of capital and a factory capable of mass...
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Model III, Model T?
Tesla Motors’ new Model III has the potential to become the 21st century’s Model T by introducing the electric car to the mass-market consumer and causing disruptive change in the automobile industry....
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The Future of Electric Vehicles in CA
The BERC-E community met for the first time in 2015 to talk about the recent progress of California’s Electric Vehicle program. Some fairly ambitious yet necessary goals were set in a 2012 executive...
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Transportation: Land of Cleantech Opportunity
Modern transportation infrastructure has made the world more and more connected. In the last 2000 years, humanity has moved from relying horse carriages and ships with sails to a plethora of mechanical...
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Ozone Drive: Accelerating the Adoption of Electric Vehicles
From UC Berkeley to the Golden Gate, BERC prides itself on being a network for individuals who seek to tackle the world’s most challenging energy and resources problems. This week we’d like to shine...
View ArticleOslo – Car Free in 5 Years?
A couple of days ago Oslo, the Norwegian capital, became the first major city to pledge to be completely car free. Oslo plans to ban cars from it’s city center within four years, and to only allow...
View ArticleCleantech in the “Circular Economy”
This month’s Cleantech Forum in San Francisco convened a number of diverse, but similarly relevant panels and breakout sessions around the topics of clean energy and sustainability innovation. With...
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