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...members include a utility, PG&E, but also members of industry, including Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn as well as FedEx chairman Frederick Smith. The coalition's goal is to have electricity account for 75% of light-duty vehicle miles traveled by the year 2040. It also envisions a network of "fast-charging" stations, which would be capable of recharging a car in minutes. If that sounds expensive, it is. The coalition is calling for roughly $120 billion to be spent by the U.S. government over the next eight years on everything from public charging stations to better batteries. To date...
...adapting to the anticipated need for high-voltage charging. Updated building codes in California require new homes to have outlets capable of recharging an electric vehicle at 220 volts, notes Richard Lowenthal, chief executive officer of Coulomb Technologies in Campbell, Calif. His company has developed a network of charging points for electric vehicles in and around cities across the U.S., including San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Nashville...
That's a troubling situation for China's potential adversaries to find themselves in, particularly as, unlike in conventional military training, what China's hackers are doing is the real thing, not make-believe. "The skill sets needed to penetrate a network for intelligence-gathering purposes in peacetime are the same skills necessary to penetrate that network for offensive action during wartime," notes a recent congressional report on China's alleged clandestine cyberattacks in the U.S. According to the report, released in October by the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, that means that "if Chinese operators...
...heavy emphasis on cyberwarfare is a key component in the Chinese military's strategic vision for defeating the technologically superior U.S. in any future conflict. That means conducting so-called asymmetrical warfare, aimed at using the U.S.'s dependence on technology as a weapon: for example, targeting America's network of space satellites or developing missiles that could sink U.S. aircraft carriers. For China's generals, though, of all the asymmetrical methods of attack available to them, cyberwar presents a uniquely effective - and cost-effective - means of neutralizing the U.S advantage. "They recognized the importance as far back...
...investigated the subject, what was something that surprised you? The American train system surprised me. The American rail network is more extensive than commonly supposed, but it's not used for passenger transport; it's used for freight transport. Interestingly enough, Europeans use their railways for passengers but not for freight...