LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 138  (Mon. 2020/10/26 16:59)
Welcome to issue # 138 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.

This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since October 23 (10/24 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.
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 Contest:

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


Newly-Added Item: (other than events)
None


Newly-Revised Item: (other than events)

Center for Sustainable Energy — Added Caret
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Cen4Sustainable_Energy
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Cen4Sustainable_Energy


New Events on the websites:

AVG Free Webinar:  How Renewable Gases Can Help Decentralize the Grid: Fuel Cells and Microgrids   W, October 28, 1:00 to 2:15 pm EDT (10:00 to 11:15 am PDT)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Decentralize
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Decentralize

TRB Webinar:  Advancing Innovative Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Research   M, November 9, 1:00 to 3:00 pm EST
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Shared-Mobility
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Shared-Mobility


Revised Event on the websites:

ITS World Congress 2021   M‑F, 2021 October 11‑15 — Paper-submisssions portal open
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#ITS-World
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#ITS-World


Events with due dates within the next ten days (until Thu., November 5):

Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo   Call for Poster Submissions:  Abstracts due Fri, Oct. 30 (extended yet again)
Symposium on International Automotive Technology 2021   Call for Papers:  Abstracts due Sat, Oct. 31 (re‑extended)
IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference   VTC2021-Spring 2021   Call for Papers:  Five-page paper due Mon, Nov. 2 (re‑extended)



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

Survey Articles:
Could Car Share Become a Part of Transit?
Electric Car Sales Will Accelerate, But Gasoline Power Will Retain Big Global Share
Cost Comparison-by-State:  Electric Vehicles vs. Gasoline Vehicles

Batteries:
TWAICE and BearingPoint enter strategic partnership for battery analytics
Designing Batteries for Easier Recycling Could Avert a Looming E‑Waste Crisis
Battery supplier SKI: 500 miles of range with 20 minutes of fast-charging, ready in 2021   (Includes mention of comparative fire hazards of batteries from two Korean companies.)
Report:  LG Chem to triple cylindrical-cell production for EVs, plans “new form factor” cells
ABB and Lion Electric partner to offer end-to-end charging solution for heavy-duty vehicles
Bollinger previews electric trucks’ modular battery pack, skips the skateboard platform
Solid Power introduces all-solid-state lithium metal batteries   [Includes two videos: Manufacturing Processes (1:18); and Chemistry (2:23).]
Electric-car mania turns Asian battery makers into power brokers

EV Charging:
Need an EV home charger installed, and clarity on incentives?  Thank the VW diesel settlement
Wireless EV charging gets a boost: Single standard will harmonize systems up to 11 kw   [Includes video (4:59).  Take-away quote is that this is so comvemient that it is an “… enabler of broad adoption of electric vehicles.”]

Electric/Fuel-Cell Cars:
3 + 1 = 500     Fiat introduces a Quattroporte – well, sort of.
Last week’s Poll:  Are EVs the best option for a low carbon transport future?
Why do owners of Toyota hybrids keep their vehicles so long?

Electric/Fuel-Cell Trucks:
Early Adopters of Electric Trucks Say Planning, Partnerships are Crucial
Tires could be costing EV owners an extra charge a year, study suggests

Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Delivery Robots:
Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ Vehicles Can’t Drive Themselves

Self-“Driving” Boats:
Boeing to develop new payloads, capabilities, and missions for Orca large long-range unmanned submarines   [Includes video (2:32) from 2017]

Electric Bicycles and Motorcycles:
Arcimoto’s 3-wheeled electric fun-mobile is headed for mass production, residential delivery

Electric Aircraft:
BAE Systems to design expendable Skyborg drone for US Air Force
The Long, Strange History of the Electric Wind   A plane without moving parts isn’t even the half of it.   [Includes video (5:05)]

OPINION:
Researcher:  Electric Cars Aren’t the Answer to Climate Change   (Milovanoff ignores the fact of how inconvenient public transportation can be.)

Miscellaneous:
New book tells the story of Tesla from its founding to the present   (Actually, an e‑book.)


OLD NEWS:
The Hummer EV isn’t the first electric truck in GMC history


Special notes:

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    —  Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)

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