LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 150  (Wed. 2020/11/25 18:02)
Welcome to issue # 150 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.

This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since November 22 (11/23 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 had entered the “Create the Future” Contest for this year, and actually made Two entries, but did not win.  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:
None


Revised Events on the websites:

SAE CEU Course: Introduction to Automotive Cybersecurity   W, July 7
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#C1911-21-7
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#C1911-21-7

SAE CEU Course: Introduction to Automated Vehicle Safety: Multi-Agent, Functional, SOTIF, and Cybersecurity   W‑Th, 2021 November 10‑11
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#C1950-21-11
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#C1950-21-11



Events with due dates within the next ten days (until Sat., December 5):
32nd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium – IV2021   Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals due Mon, Nov. 30
IEEE VT Magazine Special Issue   Call for Papers due Tue, Dec. 1 (extended)
2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC)   Call for Papets, plus Exhibitors’ info:  Abstracts/digests due Tue, Dec. 1




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

Survey Article (should read):
Hyperloop wants to change the world.  Not everyone’s convinced   [Includes video (3:14).]

Battery Factories:
Comparing Tesla Giga Texas to Giga Shanghai and Giga Berlin

Battery Technology:
How to Build a Better Car Battery   (This is about lead-acid batteries, and contains five short videos that I did not review.)
Russian nuclear company ROSATOM enters EV battery market
Musk: 435-mile range coming soon, compact Tesla hatchback considered for Europe   [Includes two videos: Full Interview with Elon Musk (20:20); and Warren Redlich has some comments on the video. (25:53).]
BASF markets anode binders for Li-ion batteries

EV Charging:
Updated rules will enable deployment of public heavy-duty EV charging stations in California
Tool For Estimating Charging Loads From Plug-In Electric Vehicles

Electric/Fuel-Cell Cars:
Ineos and Hyundai to explore fuel cell for Grenadier
Ford Mustang Mach-E vs. Chevy Bolt EV:  One of these is much cheaper with incentives
Preview drive: 2021 Volvo XC40 Recharge doesn’t complicate the future
Report: Dealers not sold on GM's all-electric vision for Cadillac can sell out   (Also pertains to “Business”)

Electric/Fuel-Cell Trucks:
Report: Nissan and Detroit startup Hercules could pair up for electric truck
Lordstown Motors claims 50,000 pre-orders for electric pickup, opens two new facilities   [Includes video, about tires and hub motors (1:27).]
2021 VW ID.4 electric SUV rated at 250 miles of range

Electric Motors and their controllers:
More conductive copper could increase motor efficiency   [Includes video (2:07).]

Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Delivery Robots:
Shared Driving Responsibility in Highly Automated Vehicles – Legal Solutions   (Also pertains to “Governmental Affairs”)
Competence Network for Automated and Connected Mobility
The future of connected automated vehicles with 5G
The UK Connected and Automated Mobility Roadmap to 2030:  CAM Creators Update
Robotaxis Can Now Collect Cash Money From Passengers In California   (Also pertains to “Governmental Affairs”)
BMW unveils MINI electric van concept to explore what cars could look like in an autonomous future   [Includes video about a different product (5:09).]
Michigan wants to build the road of the future.  Here’s why it matters   (Also pertains to “Governmental Affairs”)
Study:  The more you automate driving, the less drivers focus   (This is from the magazine for owner-operator independent truck drivers)

Self-Driving Off-Road Machinery:
Tank-like robot designed to autonomously tend gardens   [Includes video (2:20).]

Sensors for Self-Driving Vehicles:
Video: Using radar to help self-driving cars navigate in bad weather   [Short video (0:06).]
Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet
Approaching commercialization for its autonomous radar nav system, Lunewave raises $7 million

Business:
Did poor Honda e sales spur the decision to buy EV credits from Tesla?
Karma sues EV startup Lordstown, claims it stole infotainment tech

Electric Bicycles and Motorcycles:
This new kid and dog-carrying cargo e-bike is bringing Dutch design to the US   [Includes video about a different product (5:13).]
Ebike ambulance hits the streets of Paris   [Includes video (2:04).  Actually, not an ambulance, but a way of delivering emergency medical supplies and equipment to where they’re needed, in a congested city.]

Electric Aircraft:
Will the physics add up for near-silent, ion-propelled cargo drones?
Pegasus Vertical Business Jet: VTOL with turboshaft cruise   [Includes video (2:43).]
XTI reconfigures its TriFan eVTOL as a diesel-hybrid cargo drone   [Includes video (1:42).]
Australian eVTOL prototype debuts a new spin on the tilt rotor   [Includes video (2:09) about med-evac applications.]

Electric Buses and other mass-transit (but not rail):
 Munich electrifies an entire bus line with 8 new Ebusco buses
PSTA launches first of its kind AV pilot in Tampa Bay region

Governmental Affairs:
UK’s Department for transport releases a report on future mobility   (Also pertains to “Self-Driving Cars, …”)
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Vote to Impose Fees on Electric Cars
State DOTs Organizing for the Testing/Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles
Uber in talks to sell ATG self-driving unit to Aurora   (Also pertains to “Self-Driving Cars, …”)
GM changes course, no longer backs Trump’s crusade against California emissions rules   (Also pertains to “Business”)
GM switches allegiances, halts challenge of California clean-air standards   (Also pertains to “Business”)

MagLev:
China, Japan race to dominate future of high-speed rail

Miscellaneous:
AI Tools Boost Simple Technologies in a Shared World
Covid giving industry ‘net zero’ opportunity, says report
Why oil and gas engineers should consider a career in hydrogen   (Again, the Brits like hydrogen.  I worry about sudden explosions and invisible fires, but I still keep an open mind about H2)


OLD NEWS:
Budapest’s Electric Underground Railway Is Still Running After More Than 120 Years


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