LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 189  (Fri. 2021/06/04 10:59 EDT)
Welcome to issue # 189 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 May 26 (05/27 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: The “Create the Future” Contest is open for 2021.  Click here.  For my own entries for 2019-20, click at: http://www.LeviCar.com/#CreateFuture.
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)

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



New Events on the websites:

Free Volpe Webinar:  A Climate-Resilient Future Is an Equitable, Just Future   Tu, June 8, 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Climate-Resilient
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Climate-Resilient
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Climate-Resilient

TRB Free Webinar:  Catching Up on Low‑speed Automated Vehicles in Public Transit   Tu, June 8, 1‑3 pm EDT (10 am to 12 noon PDT)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Low-Speed
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Low-Speed

FORTH Roadmap Conference   M‑W, June 14‑16
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Roadmap
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Roadmap

Free Volpe Webinar:  Net-Zero America: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, and Impacts   Tu, June 22, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Net-Zero
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Net-Zero
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Net-Zero

Battery Safety Summit – Virtual   Tu‑W, June 29‑30
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Bat-Safety
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Bat-Safety

Free Volpe Webinar:  Advancing a Just and Low-Carbon Future with Urban Electrification   Tu, July 20, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Just-and-Low-Carbon
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Just-and-Low-Carbon
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Just-and-Low-Carbon

Transportation Camp Unconference – Philadelphia
http://www.LeviCar.com/#T-Camp-PHL
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#T-Camp-PHL
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#T-Camp-PHL

Free Volpe Webinar:  The Transportation and Climate Initiative: Multi-State Collaboration to Advance Equitable Low‑Carbon Transportation   Tu, August 3, 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Equitable
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Equitable
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Equitable

Free Volpe Webinar:  EVNoire’s Dr. Shelley Francis   Tu, September 14, 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Shelley-Francis
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Shelley-Francis
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Shelley-Francis

Free Volpe Webinar:  University of California, Berkley’s Susan Shaheen, PhD   Th, September 23, 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm EDT
http://www.LeviCar.com/#Susan-Shaheen
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Susan-Shaheen
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Susan-Shaheen

Advanced Automotive Battery Conference   Tu‑Th, December 7‑9
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#aabc
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#aabc

International Battery Seminar and Exhibit Virtual   M‑Th, March 28‑31
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Battery-Ecosystem
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Battery-Ecosystem



Revised Events on the websites:

Free Webinar:  High Speed Rail Connecting Midwest   F, June 11, 9:00‑10:15 am EDT — Separated out Registration Link
http://www.LeviCar.com/#HSR-Midwest
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#HSR-Midwest
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#HSR-Midwest

Solid-State Battery Summit – Virtual   Tu‑W, August 3‑ — New graphic, added   registration and corner-link to EnerTech"
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#SS-Batt-Summit
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#SS-Batt-Summit

IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conference – IEEE NAECON 2021   M‑Th, August 16‑19— Due date extended and finalized
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#NAECON
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#NAECON

ZEB – Zero Emission Bus Conference 2020   W‑F, September 15‑17— Date Corrected
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#ZEB-Denver
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#ZEB-Denver

Symposium on International Automotive Technology 2021   W‑F, September 29 to October 1 — Removed link to Announcement (Dead Link)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#SIAT
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#SIAT

The IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion 2021 (VPPC 2021)   M‑Th, October 25‑28 — Added “Recent Results”
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#VPPC
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#VPPC




Events with due dates within the next ten days (until Mon., June 14):
TMI (Transdisciplinary Mobility Innovation) Educational Video Competition   Call for Videos:  Proposal Concept Write-Up due Sun, Jun. 6 (extended)
Dept. of Defense Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
  DARPA HR001121S0007 -08 and -09 close on Jun. 8 at 12 noon, EDT





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

What I would like you all to do is to check my list of blogs and bulletins, currently at http://www.LeviCar.com/#Group-B and look at any of those that you think are interesting, and subscribe them if you wish – most of the subscriptions are free.  This way, you can keep up-to-date.  I shall continue to post links to exceptional articles in the newsletter, as well as articles from sources not on the list.  Later, I plan to separate out this list into a standalone webpage.


Batteries:
Sandwich-style battery could charge EVs in as little as 10 minutes
Ultium Battery Cells From GM Electric Vehicles Have an Official Recycler: Canada’s Li‑Cycle
Superfast-charging aluminum-ion batteries outpower lithium-ion
Aluminum Ion Batteries Has Interesting Research
Novel concrete battery could let buildings store their own energy

EV Charging:
Which US states have the highest penetration of EV charging stations?
This electric truck stop won’t offer gas or diesel—just 25 MW of solar-supplemented charging

Photovoltaics:
Adding 4 Years of Life to Higher Efficiency Solar Cells

Electric Trucks:
US House advances measure to provide $8 billion funding to replace USPS trucks with EVs

Sensors / AI Training / Microchips /Software for Self-Driving Vehicles:
Video:  Controlling traffic with lidar in smart cities   [Includes video (1:21).]

Business:
General Motors is Training its Employees In Preparation for EV Push

Electric Aircraft:
Eviation prepares to fly Alice, its stunning luxury electric plane

Autonomous Aircraft:
Interview: Cutting through the eVTOL hype with the AAM “Reality Index”
Skyborg combat drone’s “brain” flies for the first time


OLD NEWS:
Selling the Passat by the Yard
The Strathcarron Movement (Part One)
En Garde!  Part One


Special notes:

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The websites are updated as needed.  New and recently-revised items are indicated by small ovals on the upper-left corners of the link-blocks.  See http://www.LeviCar.com/Guide.HTML#Oval.

Please rely more on the websites for the most current information.  This newsletter may contain more detail about why things were updated or changed, or removed.  You do not need to have the newsletter to get the full benefit of the websites.

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Thank you for your attention.

    —  Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)

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