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Taking your electric car abroad: everything you need to know

Drive Electric

But if you’re driving an electric car abroad, you might have a few questions. Here we answer those we’re asked most often, including things like what paperwork you need and where you can charge up your electric vehicle (EV) abroad. There are a few essentials you need to drive abroad legally. What do I need to drive abroad?

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

The 25 experiments address four global megatrends—explosive population growth; an expanding middle class; air quality and public health concerns; and changing customer attitudes and priorities—challenging today’s transportation model and limiting personal mobility, especially in urban areas. —Mark Fields.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The thumb drive was all that—and more. With all these advantages, it effectively ended the era of the floppy disk. $7 MB of data. Why aren’t they more famous?

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Further Reporting Out on EVADC EVolunteering at the Teens Zone at the Green Festival in DC, 10-11 October 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Cheers EVADC'rs, PHEV'rs, and EVnthusastists, One & All - Still catching up per Green Festival (as of Sunday, 1 Nov 09) where EVADC did have a black Prius PHEV with a solar trailer for showing at the Teens Zone. It included follow-on notes about jumping on-board another hybrid -- diesel-electric locomotive with Amtrak signage.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies www.hevt.com Chicago, IL converts Ford F-150 pickup trucks.

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Genesis GV60 review: Compact SUV a milestone for Korean luxury maker

EV Central

Genesis GV60 Performance AWD review: The launch of the Genesis GV60 compact SUV is proof of the Hyundai-owned Korean luxury brand’s commitment to an electric future. Both GV60s are dual motor all-wheel drives with very similar levels of comfort and safety equipment. There’s no spare tyre just a mobility kit. seconds (4.6

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., Given Intel’s advanced MOS process, all these, he felt, could fit on a single chip.

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