LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 128  (Wed. 2020/09/30 16:25)
Welcome to issue # 128 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.

This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since September 25 (09/26 onward).

Website for the General Public, with a lot about my LeviCar project:  http://www.LeviCar.com.

Website for Innovative Transportation Professionals:  http://www.PROACCTIVE.info.

Website as a substitute for the former blog on EVWorld:  http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php.  It has the same content as the previous blog, except for some explanatory notes.  The “catch phrases” are in small type, and highlighted in yellow.

All three websites, above, are “gluten-free” (no cookies) and “caffeine-free” (no java[script], or any other script).  All of LULUE’s events are either in LeviCar.com or PROACCTIVE.info, or both.  LULUE has only upcoming events and a list of various organizations’ event calendars.

Many of the links to EV World are still on LeviCar.com, and I was able to recover them from “The Wayback Machine”.


Research Paper:  Click here to download or view my 25‑page Research Paper, The Future of MagLev: How the Magnetic‑Levitation SuperTurnpike will Revolutionize Ground Transportation (.doc format).


Contest notice: I entered the “Create the Future” Contest for this year, and actually made Two entries.  Details are at: http://www.LeviCar.com/#CreateFuture.

Please don’t forget to look at my entries in the “Create the Future contest”.  The first one is “High-Throughput End-Loaded MagLev Passenger Vehicles” (http://contest.techbriefs.com/2020/entries/automotive-transportation/10635).  The second one is “Soft-Sided Transportation Tubes (SSTTs) – an Alternative to Hyperloop” (http://contest.techbriefs.com/2020/entries/automotive-transportation/10730).

Other Contests:

NASA Langley Launches $20,000 UAV ‘Safeguard’ Competition (postponed due to COVID-19).

Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) Awards (Contest, UK only)  Entries due Friday, October 2:
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#C2I
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#C2I


Newly-Added Item: (other than events)
None

Newly-Revised Item: (other than events)
None

New Events on the websites:
None


Revised Events on the websites:

Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo   Tu‑Th, November 17‑19 — Poster Deadline Extended
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#DTCFall
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#DTCFall

2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020‑Fall   W, November 18 to W, December 16 — Dates Changed
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#VTC-Fall
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#VTC-Fall

2020 3rd IEEE Connected and Automated Vehicles Symposium   W, November 18 to W, December 16 — Dates Changed
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#CAVS
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#CAVS

The IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion 2020 (VPPC 2020)   W, November 18 to W, December 16 — Dates Changed
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#VPPC
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#VPPC

IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference   VTC2021-Spring 2021   Su‑W, April 25‑28 — Deadlines Extended
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#VTC-Spring
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#VTC-Spring



Contest with due date within the next ten days (until Oct. 10):

Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) Awards (Contest, UK only)  Entries due Friday, October 2:
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#C2I
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#C2I



IN THE NEWS  (Notice that the criteria for this is much broader than for PROACCTIVE.info):

Survey Article (should read):
How the GM-Nikola Deal Impacts the Future of Automotive, US Manufacturing

Batteries:
Quantumscape Plans 1-Gigawatt-Hour Battery Plant in 2024   (This article is full of infographics.)
Past, present, and future of lead–acid batteries (Summary)   (Full Article – Paywalled)
Elon Musk:  Tesla’s Next-Gen Battery Tech Still Two Years Away
Sandy Munro Explains How ICE Carmakers are Screwed
General Motors Slashes Battery Wiring by 90 Percent
SK Innovation’s Georgia Plants will Make Batteries for 300,000 EVs Annually
Canoo shows off naked skateboard platform, in-house EV propulsion systems in action   [Includes video (0:59)]
Digatron and DSA launch end-of-line tester for lithium battery production
A former Tesla battery scientist and 3 other experts lay out the challenges Elon Musk will face with silicon batteries, a technology that’s stymied researchers for decades
Mercedes-Benz offering world-first solid-state batteries in city bus   (Might also be categorized under “Mass-Transit”)

Supercapacitors:
Skeleton and KIT promise graphene SuperBattery with 15-second charging

EV Charging:
Report: California will need massive grid upgrades for 2035 electric-car push
SAE kicks off project to develop cyber-secure EV charging

Photovoltaics:
Perovskite Solar Cells

Electric/Fuel-Cell Cars:
Tesla’s “Plaid” Model S is Real and it’s Fast as Hell
Plug-in Hybrids and EVs Cost Less to Maintain and Repair Finds Consumer Reports
Zero Concept hints at what will underpin future Volvo, Polestar electric vehicles

Electric/Fuel-Cell Trucks:
Lordstown Motors shows electric truck interior, confirms 40,000 pre-orders
Walmart says it will reach zero emissions by 2040 – without using any offsetss
Utilities Can Help California’s Electric Fleets Earn Revenue with the LCFS
Chevy Bolt EV electric cargo van: Little-known official upfit makes it so

Self-Driving Cars and Trucks:
TuSimple teams with VW’s Traton to bring autonomous truck tech to Europe
Case Study: *New* Autonomous Vehicles for Equity: Linden LEAP Shuttle, Columbus, OH
U.S. DOT offers $5 million in prizes to boost accessibility in autonomous vehicles

Business:
The Nikola Hype Comes Crashing Down
What Tesla Has Now and the Next Two Years   [This article has three videos (12:04; 24:53; 7:55)]
Tesla:  Where Battery Day Went Wrong
Tesla Battery Day:  No Battery
Musk:  Battery plan will enable $25,000 Tesla due in 2023
Study highlights rise in battery tech patents
Charging network ChargePoint to go public in $2.4-billion deal

Electric Aircraft:
World’s first Hydrogen powered commercial plane takes off from Cranfield   [Includes video (2:32) but I got no sound]
Universal Hydrogen and Magnix building world’s largest hydrogen plane
140-mph quadcopter has designs on first responders
Ground testing completed for Rolls-Royce ACCEL electric aircraft tech   [Includes video (2:41)]

Electric Buses and other mass-transit (but not rail):
Moscow’s fleet of 450 e-buses to grow to 2,600 by 2024
Madrid transit agency orders 30 BYD electric buses
Mayor Lightfoot Announces CDOT and CTA Launching Pop-Up Essential Bus Lanes Program (Chicago)

Governmental Affairs:
California Governor issues order to ban the sale of new fossil fuel vehicles by 2035
California Will Only Allow Zero-Emission Vehicle Sales by 2035
California Is Banning Gasoline Cars.  Now the EV Race Begins
Self-Driving Car Bill Reintroduced in House Minus Biggest Backer
Transportation Creates Half of Houston’s Emissions.  Here’s How that Could Change

Miscellaneous:
Microsoft and Cascadia group unveil proposal to build economic hubs between big Pacific NW cities
Maserati MC20 Supercar Debuts in Gas and Electric Versions


OLD NEWS:
Earl’s Take On Nature


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