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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli.

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE drives autonomously over 100km interurban and urban route with near-production technology

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The required algorithms were developed by the Mercedes-Benz research team in collaboration with the Institute for Measuring and Control Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The project also resulted in Speed Limit Assist, which went into series production in 2005. Autonomous turning. Click to enlarge.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. EVs are a smart and efficient choice for personal transportation. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs. In English-system (vs.

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Always Break Yolks: The Joy of Microwave Cooking

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Division of Work and Industry/National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution I love the personal, homemaker feel of the built-in recipe card drawer in the bottom of this wall-mounted unit. In April 1961, Sharp demonstrated a 2-kilowatt microwave prototype at the International Trade Fair in Tokyo.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Micro :Electronics, Kits, Surplus, Online Catalog Cand H Sales Co.: EV Discussion List : THE international EV email discussion group EVMailing List : This is the EV Discussion List archive. Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Nice folks. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. Fair RadioSales Co.:

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

February 17, 2009 2:31 pm Link CGC (#18 and #21), You make an error in not delving into the efficiency of the internal combustion engine (ICE) and that of power generation. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future. — CGC 22.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And, if you consider lifetime costs of owning an EV versus owning a traditional internal combustion car, even if the initial purchase price of the EV is much more than your combustion car and you have to replace a battery for $4,000 after 7-10 years, the EV still costs less to operate. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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