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Momentum Dynamics deploys 200 kW wireless charging system for electric transit buses in Wenatchee, WA

Green Car Congress

Momentum Dynamics has commissioned the US’ first 200 kW wireless charging system for a battery-electric transit bus fleet. The wireless charging system is now operational on a BYD K9S bus at Link Transit in Wenatchee, Washington. This allows the electric bus to drive unlimited route cycles. Andrew Daga, John M. Miller, Bruce R.

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World’s first indoor electric car drive-in cinema lands at Farnborough later this year

Drive EV

Teaming up with leading Drive-In Cinema specialists, YouTube sensation Fully Charged will be hosting multiple screenings of Christopher Nolan’s latest film, the much anticipated spy thriller, TENET, starring John David Washington. Watch founder and presenter Robert Llewellyn, launch the Electric Drive-in.

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When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler?

Clean Fleet Report

Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk What are the environmental and other pros and cons of ditching the gas guzzler for an electric vehicle (EV)? Washington, DC Transportation accounts for almost a third of all U.S. See more at E Magazine. When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler? — S.H.,

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. He found work as a technician for telephone equipment supplier Automatic Electric , in Chicago. Department of Energy ’s Office of Science , and Gaynor moved his family to Washington, D.C.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

Johnson, vice president of the Edison Electric Light Co., debuted electric Christmas lights when he lit up 80 hand-wired bulbs on a tree in the parlor of his New York City home. He also created a fire "burning" in the fireplace; in reality, it was colored paper illuminated from below by electric lights. began advertising.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

Cars That Think

From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. To use the E-meter, a user grasps the metal cylinders while a mild electrical current runs through them. Marshals raided Hubbard’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

My wife’s boss gave me a job as a magazine editor for the American Portrait Society in 1981, and I became known in the figurative art world which was a blast while it lasted. My clients included HP, Universal Pictures, Washington Mutual, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Tyco Toys, Tangle Toys, Playmates Toys and others who kept me busy year round.