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Ford Starts EV Test Drives

Revenge of the Electric Car

company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. Data from the models will be monitored on computers that can simulate testing of more than 10,000 vehicles, he said.&#. company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. . “Ford Motor Co. 4 as the U.S.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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A much better way to conserve battery power would be to use none of it at all until the system actually had important data to transmit. The system would remain in an ultralow-power sleep mode, or even an open-circuit mode, with no current flowing, until the sensor itself detected an important signal.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S. policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. Honda, Japan’s second-largest carmaker, last week beganbuilding a lithium-ion battery factory with joint-venturepartner GS Yuasa Corp. Tokyo-based Honda plansstarting producing the vehicles in late 2010. “We

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Around the same time, General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a vehicle able to go 40 miles on electricity before its small gasoline engine kicks in. He predicted that 10 percent of the cars sold would be electric vehicles by 2020. Much of the attention on electric cars has been on the vehicles’ design, cost and performance.