Winning the Oil Endgame
Creating driverless vehicles is about solving a robotics problem: expressing the urban driving behaviour in machines. Understanding the energy issues related to current oil based vehicles is a separate but interesting topic.
This presentation discuss the ultra-light carbon based vehicles, that allow new designs and new economics for deploying next generation vehicles.
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Do not think this as a vehicle with chips, it's a computer with wheels.
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Winning the Oil Endgame: Amory Lovins
Cars, trucks and planes lie at the heart of Amory Lovins plan for kicking the oil habit. "We must make all our vehicles both lighter and stronger, using composite materials; more aerodynamic; and capable of running on biofuels," says Lovins. We could cut oil use in half by 2025, and by 2040, oil use could be zero, he states. It's a $180-billion-dollar investment with handsome returns.
Lovins marshals many arguments against the skeptics. First, much of the technological know-how already exists to bring affordable, ultralight advanced composite vehicles to market.
See the video.
More information is available in the online book Wining the Oil EndGame.
This presentation discuss the ultra-light carbon based vehicles, that allow new designs and new economics for deploying next generation vehicles.
Quote:
"""
Do not think this as a vehicle with chips, it's a computer with wheels.
"""
Winning the Oil Endgame: Amory Lovins
Cars, trucks and planes lie at the heart of Amory Lovins plan for kicking the oil habit. "We must make all our vehicles both lighter and stronger, using composite materials; more aerodynamic; and capable of running on biofuels," says Lovins. We could cut oil use in half by 2025, and by 2040, oil use could be zero, he states. It's a $180-billion-dollar investment with handsome returns.
Lovins marshals many arguments against the skeptics. First, much of the technological know-how already exists to bring affordable, ultralight advanced composite vehicles to market.
See the video.
More information is available in the online book Wining the Oil EndGame.