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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing. In 2006, the U.S. As recounted in the 2001 essay collection.

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This Robot Could Be the Key to Helping People With Disabilities

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executive,” Evans wrote on his blog in 2006. “I Kemp’s idea] solved a lot of problems in an elegant way.” And with a commercial price of US $20,000, Stretch is a tiny fraction of the cost of a PR2. One day I was a 6’4”, 200 Lb. I had always been fiercely independent, probably to a fault.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries. Ford and SCE will explore whether these batteries have other uses that could reduce their cost to consumers. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! We try to be careful to emphasize in the fine print that PHEVs can get over 100 miles/gallon of gasoline , PLUS electric costs of about 1-2 cents/mile.

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

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For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. The thing that bothers me the most about Tesla is not the range or cost of driving an EV. It’s that Elon Musk might risk $350 million US taxpayer dollars on something that will end up costing consumers more money.