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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs.

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Junkyard Find: 1970 Volvo 145

The Truth About Cars

This one now resides in the same San Jose Pick-n-Pull as three Renault Dauphines (including a Gordini ). Why didn't someone buy it for cheap and drive it to a place like Michigan or Vermont, where some say that Volvo fanatics will pay five figures for any rust-free 145 or 245? That was money left on the table!

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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

I think Leafs would have appeared in California junkyards earlier than they did had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic, which pushed up the resale value of low-range EVs to households seeking cheap third and fourth errand-mobiles that solo drivers could use in the HOV lanes on many Golden State highways.

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

Cars That Think

San Jose, Calif., Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. PHEV - These vehicles combine the advantages of both HEV and EV vehicles.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. It’s only sand.”

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