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Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs

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In the early 1990s, the US shut down Pu-238 production, and since then, the DOE has been using stockpiled material and material purchased from Russia to build these devices. Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). Pu-238 has a half-life of 87 years.) Source: Kirk Sorensen.

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Honda Introducing BEV and PHEV to US and Japan in 2012; Demonstration Programs in US Begin This Year

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Ito also announced application of a lithium-ion battery to be supplied by Blue Energy, a joint venture company between GS Yuasa and Honda, in the next-generation Civic Hybrid in 2011. Honda is planning to introduce a new electric bicycle product into China in 2011. and the City of Torrance, Calif. Electric bicycles.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I have firsthand customer knowledge of EV purchases, range anxiety, trepidations about the experience. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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Test rides most always evoke a comment of future EV purchase. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I have firsthand customer knowledge of EV purchases, range anxiety, trepidations about the experience. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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If electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft do manage to revolutionize transportation, the date of 5 October 2011, may live on in aviation lore. After his front-yard flight in 2011, there followed several years of refining and rebuilding all of the major components until they achieved the specifications Leng wanted.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles. My Web del.icio.us My Web del.icio.us

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Story of TESLA Motors: Beginning, Fight, Survival, and Success

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Daimler AG (DDAIF) purchased a 10% interest in the firm for $50 million in May of that year. When Tesla revealed the prototype of this vehicle in 2011, the company’s modern face was revealed. When Tesla revealed the prototype of this vehicle in 2011, the company’s modern face was unmasked. Tesla Model S.