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Make Your Own Digital Pinhole Camera

Cars That Think

My home of Port Townsend in Washington is a community full of arty types and makers. The cost of buying and developing film quickly adds up, and of course there’s a long delay between taking a photo and seeing the results. On the downside, both off-the-shelf and DIY pinhole cameras use film or photographic paper.

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How to Add EV Charging to an Apartment or Condo

EV Match

It covers a lot of these questions in further detail and can be downloaded for free. The most important thing during this step is to ensure all of the owner’s questions will be answered prior to incurring any substantial project costs. Most importantly, through networking, the cost of electricity can be passed on to the EV driver.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries. By partnering with these two industries.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Along with other industry executives, IBMs Schurr spoke Wednesday morning about smart-grid technologies in Washington, D.C., Charging consumers to more accurately reflect the actual cost of a product--in this case energy--will lead consumers to change their behavior, smart-grid advocates say. per barrel.

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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

Below is a summary table ( download a PDF version ) of the proposed changes to the EV tax credit for new 4-wheeled electric vehicles. Download PDF version. A group of 25 ambassadors to Washington wrote U.S. Add in state and utility incentives and the Lightning could cost $3,000-$6,000 less than the XL version.