LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 146  (Sat. 2020/11/14 22:05)
Welcome to issue # 146 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.

This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since November 11 (11/12 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 f: 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)
None


New Events on the websites:

32nd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium – IV2021   Su‑Th, July 11‑15
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#IV2021
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#IV2021

6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021)   Tu‑F, 2021 December 14‑17
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#CTRG
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#CTRG


Revised Event on the websites:

InnoTrans 2022   Tu‑F, 2022 September 20‑23 — Postponed by yet another year
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#InnoTrans
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#InnoTrans



Due date within the next ten days (until Mon., November 24):
IEEE VT Magazine Special Issue   Call for Papers due  Sun, Nov. 15  (tomorrow)




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

Batteries:
Latest Developments Show Clear Roadmap To Energy Storage Becoming 50% Of Tesla Revenues   (This is a very long article, and I did not read all of it.  One take‑away:  The non-vehicular demands on Tesla’s cell production are slowing delivery of some vehicular products.  Also pertains to “Business”)
Battery recycling breakthrough bolsters case against heavy metals
Smart welding battery packs

EV Charging:
Electrify America passes 500 charging-station locations, as it keeps building network
Toyota steps up to support Mirai fuel-cell car with 7 more hydrogen stations in California

Photovoltaics:
Progress to Roll to Roll Mass Manufacturing of Perovskite Solar   [Includes two videos: How they are made (0:39); and, for contrast, how a newspaper is printed (4:36).]

Electric/Fuel-Cell Cars:
BMW iX grilles its way toward a high-tech electric future
Want more range from your EV?  Get smaller wheels   (That’s smaller wheel rims, not smaller tires)
Fire concern prompts 2017-2019 Chevy Bolt EV recall, owners asked to charge to 90% for now

Electric/Fuel-Cell Trucks:
Ford reveals E-Transit electric vans for $45,000, ready to scale up
R1T and R1S electric trucks:  Rivian confirms more about pricing, range, specs ahead of orders

Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Delivery Robots:
Walmart and Cruise partner to test autonomous grocery delivery in Arizona
How a California County’s Mobility Mavens Are Creating a Future With Autonomous Vehicles

Electric Bicycles and Motorcycles:
Nireeka debuts flagship Sierra & Nyx carbon-framed enduro ebikes

Electric Aircraft:
German air taxi firm plans Orlando ‘vertiport’   [Includes video (4:36) showing vertical-lift-off test from 2017.]
Lilium plans a flying taxi "vertiport" for Florida in 2025
Meet the 8 electric aviation startups poised to blow past the jet age and modernize air travel and logistics, according to industry experts
Hydrogen-powered VTOL drone flies for 3.5 hours

Electric Buses and other mass-transit (but not rail):
OCTA to test 10 zero-emission plug-in electric buses

Governmental Affairs:
Auto Industry Outlook Under President-Elect Biden

MagLev:
South Korea’s Hyper-Tube Train Hits Major Milestone, Reaches Over 621 MPH   This is actually a 1/17 scale model, so I’d take this report with a grain of salt.)
This Train Uses a Rail-Less Passenger System Connected by Electromagnetic Portals and Goes 804km/h   (I think this is merely a vapor-ware proposal.)

Miscellaneous:
USHSR releases five-point, high-speed rail plan with project list
Taiga electric snowmobiles and personal watercraft to come with ABB chargers   (Did you know that one gasoline-powered snowmobile can pollute as much as 40 cars?)
Almost 80% of European EV sales have been in the six wealthiest countries
Survey suggests post-pandemic driving could soar, thwarting efforts to curb CO2


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    —  Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)

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