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RIP natural-gas cars, doomed by cheap gas and electric cars

Green Car Reports

Natural gas vehicles were first promoted starting in about 2000 as a way to reduce reliance on imported oil and cut tailpipe emissions. Their promise appeared to grow near the height of the global financial crisis, when gas prices hovered around $4 per gallon across much of the United States.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name.

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Stuff We Use: Under Pressure (Washers)

The Truth About Cars

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. A separate device can be purchased to provide household-style outlets if you plan to double the thing as a 2000-watt source of backup power.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

The Truth About Cars

If a defect robs a vehicle of motive power and/or results in a giant repair bill, it’s deemed as more important than the windows failing to work or the paint being cheap. Data is accrued primarily on model years from between 2000 and 2023. Mechanical issues are weighted the most heavily in the Consumer Reports reliability survey.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Kyoto team develops new cathode material for high-energy-density rechargeable magnesium batteries

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Moreover, the terrestrial abundance and melting point of elemental magnesium by far surpass that of lithium, translating to a cheap and safe battery system. These advantages of magnesium metal anodes have been previously recognized and a rechargeable magnesium battery cell was first proposed in 2000.

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Argonne researchers propose new composite germanium oxide material for Li-ion anodes

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Herein, we propose a new metal oxide composite anode material in lithium-ion batteries application, which is prepared by a simple and cheap method. The GeO 2 electrode delivers a high initial capacity, over 2000 mAh g ?1 This composite material is a mixture of GeO 2 oxide and Sn?Co?C The GeO 2 ?SnCoC

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