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Sanyo Installs Two Solar Parking Lots for Bikes and Provides 100 Hybrid Bikes in Tokyo

Green Car Congress

The power generated from the solar panels installed on the roof is stored to be used to recharge the electric hybrid bicycle batteries and illuminate the parking lot lights. Sanyo is using its new Standard Battery System for Power Storage announced in November 2009 in the system. Earlier post.). The eneloop bike.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EFICIENCY OF ENERGY CONVERSION There is a law in science (more specifically, thermodynamics) that. in layman’s term, would state that conversion of one form of energy to another — in this case the primary energy sources (natural gas, oil and coal) to electricity — is not 100% efficient. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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