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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

Long recognized as an EV hotbed alongside our brethren Seattle and San Francisco, Portland never disappoints when it’s time to round up and roll out. So you can imagine the buzz around town as we braced for the next installment. We were good & ready for REVENGE !

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. The Air Touring does not come with a battery heater that warms the battery to a temperature for a faster and higher charge. Lucid says one is coming soon.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel chief executive officer Andrew Grove Favorite restaurants Postrio and Bella Voce in San Francisco, Beausejour in Los Altos, Calif. Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. As far as quick, Id give my left nut to own a Wrightspeed EV, so I could (quietly) blow the doors off Porsches and Ferraris.