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SAE Releases J1772 EV Charging Coupler Standard

Green Car Congress

SAE International has released the J1772 “SAE Electric Vehicle Conductive Charge Coupler” standard that provides a standard interface between plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles and electrical charging systems. By standardizing, you’re reducing costs and allowing everyone to use the same connector.

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Time to shake-up EV outreach?

Electric Auto Association

That’s the local college extension program at Southern Oregon University (SOU), and we’re co-sponsoring a class on EVs.” We’ve got different skill sets, so we ‘re a great team.” “The I’d been in charge of the Ashland Lions Club website for many years and I learned quite a lot about what you can do through Wordpress,” Jorgenson said.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Laser printer A device that, like a xerographic copier, draws an image on a drum, but with a laser beam instead of lenses; applies toner to the charged image area; and transfers the toner to a sheet of paper, melting it into the paper to set the image. And the ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) is based on PostScript.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

Cars That Think

This episode is brought to you by IEEE Xplore , the digital library with over 6 million technical documents and free search. and these ions are charged particles. And those are probably where the electrons are, actually, because an ion, it’s got a plus-one charge or a minus-one charge based on— but let’s not go too far into it.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

2050 net-zero strategy document , which explains how America will get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 Neither does the U.S.

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MINI E joins Government electric vehicle announcement

Green Cars News

Scottish and Southern Energy is the UK’s leading generator of energy from renewable sources and will be installing the private and public charging points required for the MINI E test vehicles. At the end of the one-year trial a comprehensive report documenting the main findings of the MINI E research project will be published.

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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. Ford spokesman in Wards Auto ) 6/9/06 "So, Mr. Ford is saying we’re looking into it. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. Detroit Free Press ).

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