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When They Electrified Christmas

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Homeowners can illuminate the eaves with iridescent icicles, shroud their shrubs with twinkling mesh nets, or mount massive menorahs on their minivans. The lights were connected in series, so if a bulb burned out, the rest of the line went dark. But decorative lights aren't new. On 22 December 1882, Edward H. She earned her Ph.D.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Primary lithium chemistries include: manganese spinel cathode and lithium titanate anode for high power applications, as well as manganese spinel cathode and amorphous carbon for high energy applications. General Motors Corporation. Brownstown, MI.

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New analytic framework quantifies benefits of taxi ride-sharing: cut in cumulative trip length by 40% or more

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Researchers at MIT, Cornell University, and the Italian National Research Council’s Institute for Informatics and Telematics have devised a framework—the “shareability network”—to enable the systematic analysis of the tradeoff between collective benefits of sharing taxi services and individual passenger discomfort.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. What are we really doing and how big of a carbon footprint are we going to leave with this?" Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day.

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