Tech Talk Podcast With Craig Peterson: Transportation

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Craig Peterson — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:26:00 -0400

Donald J. Evans the CEO at AvJet Biotech joins Craig to discuss how the production of fuel will change remarkably in the future as more countries shift towards the use of a sustainable fuel. Algae is going to become a much more common fuel source as other sources such as corn, soybeans and sugar cane will continue to be marked as materials that must be used for food and not fuel.
So what does this mean for our Military — the US will be able to be much more independent and less reliant on foreign sources for oil as our demand will continue to increase. Increased domestic production of petroleum and greatly increased use of biofuels will support the military's goal of independence from foreign oil.

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Craig Peterson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:16:00 -0500

William O’brien the CEO and Founder of Sabertec joins Craig to discuss how they are solving environmental challenges through technology, education and the inspiration of behavioral change. Blade was developed utilizing Sabertec’s patent-pending impact filtration method, which is the core technology in their IDPF product. IDPF has been reducing toxic diesel particulate matter emissions. It easily attaches to the tailpipe of a car to reduce CO2 emissions and toxic particulate matter – a type of pollution that includes dust, soot, and tiny bits of solid materials suspended in the air. It meets and exceeds the EPA 511 guidelines for an increase in fuel economy.

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Craig Peterson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:08:00 -0500

John Giliberti from Giliberti joins Craig to discuss Giliberti’’s mission to develop, design and manufacture efficient, affordable, and reliable electrically powered utility vehicles to meet our customers needs. Giliberti continues to be on the cutting edge by finding new opportunities to design and develop products to meet niche market needs. They build mini ambulances for production plants. These mini units are used in a crowded areas and can get into places that a full size unit can not operate. For the airline industry we build Push back tractors belt loaders and High lifts all on our electric and Hybrid chassis. The future looks bright for us in 2009 when we will have the ability to replace the F550 and International trucks with our new larger units which will be for operations that do not travel over 50 mph such as small towns island operations and port operations.

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Craig Peterson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:33:00 -0500

Jeff Naber an Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University joins Craig to discuss the future of flex fuel hybrids, biofuels and why CAFE and EPA standards are causing many challenges to US automakers.

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Craig Peterson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:28:00 -0500

Scott Sedlik the VP of Marketing at Inrix a company that provides real-time, historical and predictive traffic information joins Craig to discuss their partnership with FORD. This partnership will allow drivers of Ford cars and trucks to get personalized, real-time information by using simple voice commands and because all it requires is a cell phone with Bluetooth, Ford expects to ship over 1 million vehicles with SYNC by this Fall 2009.

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Craig Peterson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:21:00 -0500

Rick Kasper the President of Global Electric Motor Cars joins Craig to discuss the future of the Electric car. Global has been in business for over eleven years and has placed over 40,000 of their vehicles on the road. Known as an NEV or Neighborhood Electric Vehicle these low speed cars get an equivalent of 150 miles per gallon these making them great for short trips and fleet operations.

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Craig Peterson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:46:00 -0500

Comment and Review on Tech in the News. This week Biofuels.

Did you know that General Motors has join in partnership with a company called COSKATA? They have and this company has developed a technology that can make ethanol from just about anything …. including garbage such as old tires, wood chips, and even human waste! This is a great way to rid ourselves of garbage and power our cars. The best part is that it can sell for under a dollar a gallon. This is an incredible opportunity to stop the dependency on gas and oil.

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Craig Peterson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:32:00 -0500

Brian Nesbit from Vice President of design at General Motors spoke with Craig at the International Auto Show in Boston about GM and their design implementations that are now coming to market.

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Craig Peterson — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:20:00 -0400

Comment and Review on the Tech News of the Week – Virgin Atlantic goes green with Biodiesel for its fleet.

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Craig Peterson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:15:00 -0500

Jim Benson from Space Development Corporation will join Craig to discuss what they have been studying and developing that will help us now and in the future.

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Craig Peterson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:12:00 -0500

Craig talks with the winners of the DARPA Challenge from Stanford University. Their robot (VW Toureg) won the race and they are the recipients of the 2 million dollars.

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:22:00 -0500

Dr. Charles Reinholtz the advisor for Virginia Tech’s entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge will discuss with Craig the requirments of the race and what DARPA is hoping to learn from this research.

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:22:00 -0500

Automotive Technology show introduction. Craig Peterson discusses the Volvo XC90 and it’s drive-by-wire technoloy. Recording industry suit and its call for a guardian. Instant-messaging dangers. Using GPL’ed software and providing licensed software.

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:19:00 -0500

High efficiency and alternate fuels are all the rage. Dr. Doug Nelson of Virginia Tech talks with Craig about Fuel Cell Systems for Electric Vehicles and the technologies that are critical to the development and production of future automobiles. How we are accelerating the development of fuel-efficient/low-emission vechicles, and why developing a new talented workforce for our country’s future automotive industry is of utmost importance?

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:17:00 -0500

Motorola makes a new car management system called Motodrive. We interview Lee Callaway about one of new weapons in the arsenals of pit crews and drivers and the one that helped GM Corvette Racing Team place both first and second in the GT1 class at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race earlier this summer. This technology is coming to your car soon!

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:15:00 -0500

How automated should a car be? The newer cars use drive-by-wire, which could save your life or could cost you your life. Craig Peterson discusses potential problems.

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:13:00 -0500

John Snow, VP from Enigma, joins Craig to discuss the Enigma Parts & Service Information Solution that delivers to a dealer network and independent repair shops, a fully integrated, electronic application of maintenance information and parts catalogs that also ties into diagnostic interfaces and software (firmware) downloads

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:00 -0500

How often do you change the filters in your car? Any idea how many there are, what they do and how often they must be changed? Craig interviews the top filter manufacturer and supplier to Nascar, Wix Filters’ Bill Stamey about what you need to know.

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Craig — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:08:00 -0500

Looking to buy a car? Craig interviews AutoByTel.com’s Brian Chee. We talk about how to shop for a car online, how AutoByTel works and how you can get a good deal on your next car.

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