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Hamburg putting its first Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid buses into service

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Hamburger Hochbahn AG has acquired four Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrids under the German “NaBuZ demo” scheme to promote sustainable bus systems for the future. Demonstration of the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid buses as part of the NaBuZ demo project is to take place on Hochbahn’s regular service routes.

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GM and ABB demonstrate prototype of Volt battery pack grid re-use application

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Our target during this project has always been a field demonstration, putting it out in the field with used batteries and appropriate electronics to support the grid. The first step toward this field demo is to build a lab prototype. The Volt battery is charged and discharged according to a use profile appropriate to the application.

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

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A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. I gave a demo in early 1975 to all of PARC of the Smalltalk system using Bitblt for menus and overlapping windows and things,” Ingalls recalled. “A Frame buffer.

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