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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

Cars That Think

A 9-volt battery powered the Texas Instrument TMS0975NL integrated circuit and the eight-digit LED display. Texas Instruments still makes a version of the Little Professor, only now it’s sustainably powered with solar cells.) That’s excellent design—to create a connection that endures decades later.

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Megawatt charging for electric big rigs is starting to arrive

Baua Electric

The Bakersfield station has three Megawatt Charging Standard (MCS) 1,200-kw chargers connected to its solar array, WattEV said in a press release. The 119-acre site also has 16 dual-cord 360-kw chargers connected to the grid, as well as 15 single-cord 240-kw Combined Charging Standard (CCS) chargers.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power).

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Honda to add new dedicated hybrid model with i-MMD in US in 2018; hybrid system to expand to light trucks

Green Car Congress

Honda set a global target for two-thirds of all sales to come from electrified models by 2030 and to halve its total company CO 2 emissions from 2000 levels by 2050. The new, dedicated hybrid vehicle will utilize Honda’s second-generation two-motor hybrid system, which is currently deployed in the Accord Hybrid ( earlier post ).

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New Gen4 smart electric drive; electrification of all smart models

Green Car Congress

This enables maximum acceleration with defined maximum battery power if the current charge level and the temperature of the battery allow this function. Instead of the planned 1000 vehicles more than 2000 smart fortwo electric drives were produced in Hambach. The huge demand exceeded all expectations.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. And what will happen when millions of people all start driving these electric cars and the batterys go dead.

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