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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

Drive EV

These changes have received much industry criticism, with suggestions the move will stifle the growth of EV sales as drivers are put off making the switch. 3 is set to become the people’s electric car with ample range, interior space equivalent to the class above and all the kit you will ever need. What’s changed?

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

Discussions with potential customers in the supercomputer, graphics workstation, and minicomputer industries contributed new requirements for the chip. If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky,” said Albers.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. Local area network. Object-oriented programming.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By partnering with these two industries. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. This is unusual.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? While utilities such as E.ON

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. I’ve written several posts about these exact topics: Firefly Energy: [link] True cost to own of EVs (especially read through the comments on this one: [link] — Nick Chambers 3.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. The big deal was that the oil industry saw real competition and persuaded GM to abandon the project and crush them all like cans.

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