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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

0:00 / 4:40 Battery power for Chrysler The Circuit will be a purely plug-in car - there will be no gas tank or gasoline engine at all - with an expected range of 150 to 200 miles on a full charge. A Fiat-based battery powered small car is slated for production shortly after the Circuit, according to Chryslers viability plan.

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

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But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Peter Roach, Birmingham, UK Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries powered the late GM EV1 and still power hundreds of Toyota RAV4 EVs, some over 100,000 miles. Also, Firefly batteries now being produced use lead foam in lead-acid configuration, cutting their weight almost in half. Walkout at UN conference after Iran.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. Instead of investing in our future we dumped money on trying to save the past. Way to go morons. P.S. The Volt is not revolutionary.

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