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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. And Warren, who eventually solved the grid-frequency problem, was actually working on a different puzzle when he came across the answer. How Warren’s clocks regulated grid frequency Henry E.

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7 Ways to Reduce EV Charging Costs

Clean Fleet Report

Sometimes their location is not so obvious, so keep a lookout at places such as shopping plazas, autoplexes, movie theaters, golf clubs and country clubs. The trick is to speak to your provider and ask whether they offer any special rates for EV owners or reduced rates when the grid is under less demand. Switch Utility Company.

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Is GM's Plug-in Hybrid for Real? What Say Big Enviro?

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The environmental Big Three - Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Union of Concerned Scientists - remain on the sidelines of the plug-in discussion. And now Rick Waggoner of GM, creator and killer of the EV1, has again breached the industry taboo on connecting to the cleaner, cheaper, ubiquitous electric grid.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

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Lutz responds to the sense that GM might be pulling back from its commitment to the Volt that resulted from Sharon Terlep's Detroit News article a month or so ago. (My Bob Lutz, GM CEO, sat down to chat with some bloggers at the NY Auto Show, and PODTECH has the video. Well worth a listen. My take at the time here.)

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp.,

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The EV Transition Explained: Converting Gasoline Superusers

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After moving to a home much further away from their respective workplaces, each would have become part of the gasoline “superusers” club. Club members make up the 10 percent of U.S. Their switch to EVs was also providential. Rural areas make up 86 percent of U.S. land area, and 60 million of America’s population.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Related Articles Chrysler May Dodge the Banking Bullet Quick Read Apr 28, 2009 Group 1 Automotive Inc. The true impact of electric vehicles should consider the make-up of the power grids where these cars will be used. market b y the end of 2009. Tax credit incentives are also available to consumers in the U.S.