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Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. Earlier post.)
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(MMTh) has agreed to start joint testing of the i-MiEV electric vehicle (EV) with the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) and PEA ENCOM International Co., MMC agreed with the government of Thailand on December 2010 to start a joint study for fleet testing of EVs. PEA ENCOM International Co., PEA ENCOM).
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Enter ice-penetrating radar (IPR), a technology that uses radio waves to image the internal layers of glaciers and the bed beneath them. In the 1960s, as part of an international collaboration, a U.S. Predating GPS, the project recorded flight paths using internal navigation systems and known ground waypoints.
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Gudmundur Arnason, sponsored by Icelands National Energy Authority, Prius by Amberjac/EnergyCS, August 2007 (Akureyri, Iceland), contact gudmundurarnason@simnet.is ( full-size photo ) City of Toronto , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). San Diego Gas & Electric , Prius by Green Gears (San Diego, CA) July, 2007.
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