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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. It also toyed with the idea of presenting Prius as a sub-brand at the point it had four different models, but dropped it. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. I’m hoping for the latter.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

People actually love the idea of a bicycle that does not need pedalling. Exchange ideas in the boardroom. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. Such bribes would not be necessary to encourage people to switch to electric bicycles.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Utilities are drawn to the idea of a car that plugs in at home. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. By early 2006, the solutions we promote had become so broadly welcomed that they were supported by President Bush.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. Sheehan (2006), STI Working Paper, OECD.