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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., San Jose, Calif., This model-building can get very basic. in Rochester, NY.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? You have to build the battery powertrain first, and add the fuel cell system.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. Felix Kramer, CalCars.org, at Plug In 2008 in San Jose / photo by Creative Greenius (c) 2008. The rate of $0.32 NO PURCHASE!

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. It’s a personal challenge. Happy New Year 1982!

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert.