LeviCar / PROACCTIVE / Lulue Newsletter # 195 (Mon. 2021/07/12 17:32 EDT)
Welcome to issue # 195 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 July 8
(that date 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” 2021 Contest is open for voting only 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)
Create-the-Future Contest — Contest Closed
http://www.LeviCar.com/#CreateFuture
New Events on the websites:
Free Webinar: Auto, Aero and Defense Electrification: Optimizing Induction Motor Design for Manufacturing
W, July 14, 2‑3 pm EDT (11 am to 12:00 noon PDT)
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Induc-Motor
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Induc-Motor
SAE 2021 Automotive Computing and Communication Conference Tu‑W, July 20‑21
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Comp-Comm
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Comp-Comm
Free Webinar: Free Webinar: Making Cost an Attribute in Electric Vehicle Development
W, July 28, 10:00 to 10:30 am EDT
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Cost-Attrib
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Cost-Attrib
COMVEC™ Tu‑F, September 14‑17
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#COMVEC
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#COMVEC
North American International Propulsion Conference W‑F, September 15‑17 —
Note that title changed from “Powertrain” in previous years, to “Propulsion”
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#NAIPC
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#NAIPC
Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting Tu‑Th, September 28‑30
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#Lubricants
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#Lubricants
Revised Event on the websites:
Quebec Electric Vehicle Show F‑Su, October 1‑3 — Date set (finally)
http://www.LeviCar.com/#QEVS
http://www.PROACCTIVE.info/#QEVS
http://www.LeviCar.com/LULUE.php#QEVS
Events with due dates within the next ten days (until Thu., July 22):
The IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion 2021 (VPPC 2021)
• Call for Recent Results: Full Paper due Mon, Jul. 12
(extended)
(Very slight chance of further extension).
• Call for Special Events: Proposals due Mon, Jul. 12
(extended) (Very slight chance of further extension).
DoDSBIR/STTR Programs
• DARPA HR001121S0007 -15 and -16 will be open until Wed, Jul. 15, 12 noon EDT.
• DARPA HR001121S0007 -17 will be open until Tue, Jul. 20, 12 noon EDT.
• ARMY SBIR 21.4 -038 will be open until Wed, Jul. 21, 12 noon EDT.
• ARMY SBIR 21.4 -039 will be open Wed, Jul. 21, and close to direct communication with topic
authors at that time.
TechConnect Europe Innovation Conference & Expo
Call for Presentation: Abstracts (300 words max.) due Fri, Jul. 16
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:
GM reveals more technical details of its Ultium battery packs
Supercapacitors:
Skeleton Technologies raises €70 million to develop EV batteries and supercapacitors
(Also pertains to “Batteries”.)
EV Charging:
Indiana, Purdue University to pilot vehicle-charging concrete
Daimler, Traton and Volvo to build a European charging network for heavy-duty trucks
(Also pertains to “Electric Trucks”.)
French startup Electra raises €15 million, aims to deploy 1,000 ultra‑fast stations by 2030
As EV charging networks grow, Nio plans to keep boosting battery swapping
Electric Cars:
https://newatlas.com/automotive/lightyear-one-710-km-single-charge-test-drive/
[Includes video (3:09).]
The 50-mpg club: 8 affordable cars making the best of high gas prices
Electric Trucks:
Volvo Penta starts producing powertrain for Rosenbauer’s electric fire truck
Electric Vehicles in General:
Biden right-to-repair action could benefit Tesla owners, EV economy
Electric Motors and their controllers:
Silicon Mobility improves inverter and motor efficiency through digital control
Self-Driving Cars, Trucks, and Delivery Robots:
Tesla's new Full Self Driving beta 9.0 still looks a bit too exciting
[Includes video (4:37).]
Business:
Tesla: China Struggles are Just Getting Started
Electric Aircraft:
Lilium’s CPO on the massively expensive challenge of eVTOL certification
[Includes video (2:01).]
This New Air Taxi Concept Can Haul 1600 Pounds and Fly 200 Miles on a Single Charge
Jet It and JetClub order eFlyer 800 electric planes from Bye Aerospace
Miscellaneous:
These futuristic pods could help cities solve their traffic problems
HyperPort would fire shipping containers around at transonic speeds
[Includes short video (1:41).]
OLD FUN NEWS:
Youtuber 3D prints car that ‘breaks laws of physics’ to clarify decade-long debate
[Includes video (5:07).]
… driverless EV Tesla Model 3 get pulled over by the highway patrol …
OLD NEWS:
Dutch Treat
(There were more strings to DAF’s bow than one might have imagined.)
Small Beginnings
(Half a century ago, South Korea’s auto industry was in its infancy.
We recall its inauspicious start and chart its early progress.)
The Machine That Changed The World
(Book review: Twenty years ago a book revolutionised the auto‑industry
paradigm – for those who were paying attention at least.)
Best Bitter
(First Pint: The Bitter origin saga.)
This boat-inspired Rolls-Royce could be the most expensive new car ever
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— Josh Levin (Dr. Zev)