LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 177  (Sun. 2021/02/28 20:50 EST)
Welcome to issue # 177 of the LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter.

If you are primarily interested in the "IN THE NEWS" part, click here.

This issue covers updates and changes for three of my websites, since February 23 (02/24 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 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 Items: (other than events)

Dept. of Transportation Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) solicitation for FY 2021 — Webinar Recordings etc. available
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#DoT-SBIR

Dept. of Defense Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) — Updated dates
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#DoD-SBIR



New Events on the websites:

Free Webinar:  It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s an Electric Plane!   Tu, March 9, 10–11 am PST (1–2 pm EST)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Bird-Plane
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Bird-Plane

Free Webinar:  Avnet Transportation Tuesday: Understanding Transportation Image Sensing Trends   Tu, March 9, 10–11 am PST (1–2 pm EST)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Image-Sensing
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Image-Sensing

Free Webinar:  The Lifecycle of EV Batteries & Recycling   W, March 17, 10–11 am CET (5–7 am EDT)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Lifecycle
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Lifecycle

Free Webinar:  Maglev for America   F, March 19, 9‑10 am EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#MagLev-for-America
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#MagLev-for-America
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#MagLev-for-America

IEEE TEC Prize Ph.D. Thesis Talk – 3-Min. Ph.D. Challenge (Award Ceremony)   Sometime in July
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Thesis
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Thesis
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Thesis



Revised Event on the websites:

The IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion 2021 (VPPC 2021)   M‑Th, October 25‑28 — Special-Session-Proposals Deadline Extended
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#VPPC
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#VPPC




Event with due date within the next ten days (until Wed., March 10):
The 34th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition   Call for Papers:  Abstracts due  Sun, Feb. 28   (Tonight – probably will not be extended)



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

Batteries:
Opinion:  Brexit rules will drive UK demand for battery development & testing
GAC Group’s novel graphene-based battery tech will debut in a vehicle this year

Electric Cars:
Karma prices GS-6 plug-in hybrid arriving soon, teases electric SUV due in 2022
Tesla Model S Redesign:  Look Past the Weird Steering Yoke and See the Future

Electric Trucks:
New Postal Service delivery vehicle unveiled. It's a pretty radical change   (The big disappointment here is that they still plan to use fossil-fuel engines, and these trucks are so rugged they can last DECADES.)
Review:  Off-road with the ready-to-roll RMT Overland Jeep Gladiator

Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell Vehicles:
Sergey Brin’s airship aims to use world’s biggest mobile hydrogen fuel cell
The best-driving sedan Toyota already makes is an electric car
First Mode building hydrogen fuel cell to power one of the biggest zero-emission vehicles on Earth

Electric Motors and their controllers:
Rare earth magnets from old computers to find use in electric Bentleys
RaRE project aims for electric motors from waste

Sensors / AI Training / Microchips /Software for Self-Driving Vehicles:
Apple Self-Driving Cars in the Works, Tech Giants Discussing With Suppliers for Lidar Sensors   [Includes video (9:34) that I did not review.]

Business:
10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’ss post-pandemic future

Electric Aircraft:
Surf Air Mobility Acquiring Electric Aviation Pioneer Ampaire   (“ … plans to convert several aircraft types to hybrid-electric propulsion”.)
Flying Drone Blanket will charge and launch swarms of quadcopters   (Also pertains to “EV Charging”.)

Autonomous Aircraft:
Honda just patented this electric motorcycle with a built-in drone in its tail

Governmental Affairs:
Virginia adopts EV-boosting California clean car standards, with support of dealers
Virginia to become the next zero-emission vehicle state

MagLev:
Hyperloop travel appears to be on the fast track to reality

Miscellaneous:
New catalyst converts methane into methanol at room temperature
Unipolar Carbon Nanotube Muscles: Ten to Thirty Times Human Muscle and Two to Six times Diesel V8


Technical Articles and Papers:
Laser applications for structural components of EV battery pack (whitepaper)   (Also pertains to “Batteries”.)


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    —  Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)

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