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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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Zenith enters the TV receiver business, buying Rauland of Chicago, a picture tube manufacturer. Admiral buys Cortron, leaving 17 U.S. Sanyo Electric of Japan buys TV business from Warwick Electronics; Andrea Radia, a small New York-area family-owned company, fades from the market.) TV makers left after Philips buys GTE Sylvania.)

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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As in Palo Alto, it will likely be blown transformers or constantly flickering lights that signal there is an EV charging-load issue. Xcel Energy in Minnesota, for example, has already started to upgrade distribution transformers because of potential residential EV electrical-load issues.

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EV Chargers for All!

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When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry’s 200-unit condominium building in Minneapolis, Minn., light-duty vehicle sales.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

These include Pacific Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Light and Edison Electric Institute , the trade association for IOUs (see quote below). This site also links directly to the Plug-In Partners petition. Investor-owned utilities are starting to sign on as partners.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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president Grover Cleveland officially opened the extravaganza by pressing a golden telegraph key that symbolically switched on 100,000 incandescent lights. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.) On 1 May 1893, U.S.

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