Cars That Think

JULY 2, 2023

A vent was added to the Macintosh casing to allow cool air to enter and absorb heat from the vertical power supply, with hot air escaping at the top. Television viewers watching the Super Bowl football game in January 1984 saw a commercial with the Macintosh overcoming Orwell’s nightmare vision of 1984.

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Design Engine Parts Personal 119

Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. He ac­knowledges that he made no technological leaps in designing the Aurora, which is simply a commercialized second-generation version of his first-generation system at PARC. But Xerox resisted.

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Future Engine Personal IDEA 145

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009.

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45