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Community Electrifying the Urban Commute
ChargeCar is dedicated to open, community-centered teamwork for making electric vehicles practical and affordable enough to revolutionize urban commuting. You can calculate the cost of commuting with an electric car using your actual commute data, compare the efficiency of gasoline and electric cars for your trips, browse commutes across the country and work on a smart controller for our programming contest.

Crowd-Sourcing the Commute:

The 21st century car should adapt to every person's commute. Browse our database to see how commutes across the country vary in terms of speed, distance, traffic conditions, hills and driver behavior.



Arrow Electrify Everyone's Commute
Every Commute is Unique:

Electric cars are engineered for one kind of average driver. What if you had an electric car that was customized to maximize the efficiency of your personal commute? Visualize an electric car solution by uploading your commute data and contributing to an open, shared database.

Arrow Electrify My Commute
Open-Sourcing the Controller:

With the right algorithms, a supercapacitor-battery combination will increase efficiency and drop costs, making electric vehicles viable. Join us by inventing controllers that use our data, to manage power intelligently in our open programming challenge.

Arrow Invent a Control Algorithm





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ChargeCar Community Events
We would like to thank councilman Bill Peduto, as well as everyone who came to share and listen at last week's open house and forum. We are very excited to move forward with everyone's great ideas! If you couldn't make it, our last event of the summer is this Friday.

We would like to invite you to our final community event and cookout of the summer on Friday, July 30th at 7pm, at the Electric Garage where we will be hosting a public policy community day. In addition to invited members and representatives from local government and Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), CMU professor and former NASA astronaut Jay Apt will be giving a presentation on the electric grid. Professor Apt will begin speaking at 8:30pm.

ChargeCar's Electric Garage is located at the former Exxon Gas Station on the 4600 block of Forbes Avenue, next to CMU. A map of the area can be found: here



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