Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2023

Today, many mobile devices use DOEs to convert a laser beam into “structured light.” It took until 2000 before the theory of metamaterials was implemented in the lab. They published the discovery in 2001 in Science , causing a stir as people imagined invisibility cloaks. That year, Richard A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

There are two basic approaches to converting coal to synthetic fuels: indirect liquefaction (ICL) (Fischer-Tropsch) and direct (Bergius). The indirect liquefaction pathway first gasifies the coal to produce a syngas, and then catalytically converts the syngas to linear hydrocarbons or chemicals. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Soon Mazor, then a research engineer at Intel, joined him, and the two pursued Hoff’s ideas, developing a simple instruction set that could be implemented with about 2000 transistors. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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IDEA 2000 Design Engine 114

Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. During the third period, from 2000 on, industry seized the helm of semiconductor development. Kim rose quickly within Fairchild’s hierarchy.

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South Korea Industrial Industry Universal 101

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. Google founder Sergey Brin drove one of the 2001 Th!nk At a price, of course, but a state rebate of $2000 for Zero Emission Vehicles will apply.

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NiMH Google Prius EPRI 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

model in 2001 by the DOEs Argonne National Lab estimates hybrids reduce greenhouse gases by 22%, and plug-in hybrids by 36% (see table 2). Cost increments for a plug-in hybrid compact vehicle will be 10-20% more than a regular hybrid: $2000-3000 extra for a sedan; $5000 for an SUV. The GREET 1.6 Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.

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