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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

Green Car Congress

the Environment. other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. petroleum reduction strategies. Center for.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

Cars That Think

He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line.

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

Cars That Think

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp.,

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Next week, the California Air Resources Board is expected to adopt strict new regulations based on the theory that the innovative technology sold by 3Prong Power and other companies may be bad for the environment. The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions.

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