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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

Wrightspeed is currently building electric powertrain technology for two high-power markets: medium-duty fleet trucks (the Route system) and ultra-performance supercars (the Circuit all-wheel drive system). The engineering team has particular strengths in control systems, high-reliability software, and high-power analog electronics.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

County the national leader in solar energy it has the power to make that happen. So if you had a big warehouse that nobody was currently renting you could fill your giant rooftop with solar panels and have your own now power station feeding clean, green, renewable energy right into the existing grid.

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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. Mild - Spin used to describe vehicles which have substantial amounts of motive power provided by electric motors though do not have EV-Only modes.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

For several years, Yu had been intrigued by Kohn’s zeal for building a superfast RISC microprocessor, but he felt Intel lacked the resources to invest in such a project. The power budget at first caused serious concern. Fu divided the power budget among the teams, allocating half a watt here, a watt there. “I

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Fairly early in his childhood Hoff figured out that the best way to feel less like a kid—and a little more powerful—was to understand how things work. San Jose, Calif., Then he can build a model proving his conclusion, using vintage components from his collection, and demonstrate the model in court as an expert witness.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. And ride off into the sunset on electric power. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009. Newsweek ).

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