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Celebrating 25 Years of IEEE Women in Engineering

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The event is available on demand via IEEE.tv. The session also is available on demand. The talks are available on demand. Its in-person events are to take place at the San Diego Convention Center. Nominees will be featured on the WIE website and in the December issue of WIE Magazine.

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San Diego electric car club social invites public to drive the Tesla Model S

Green Car Congress

The San Diego event will be held on Saturday, 9 November from 11 am-5pm in Balboa Park. an invitation, available through advance registration on the club’s web. one-year subscription to Electric Car Insider Magazine. beverages and snacks will be available. Drives hosted by the EV Quorum car club. site, is required.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But that kind of acceleration is available only in something called "sport" mode, which uses power from both the battery pack and the gas-powered generator. Two 150-kilowatt electric motors together deliver 403 horsepower--enough to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in 5.8 It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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General Atomics , a military contractor in San Diego, is also developing a laser of this power for the Army based on what’s known as the distributed-gain design , which has a single aperture. With an airplane you have the least amount of resources—least volume, least weight—that is available to you.

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