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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. The 100 m.p.g. Right Now can be seen here. Yep, a truck.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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But this long-deferred move into the booming market in reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) was more of a shock, in part because it broke with Intel’s tradition of compatibility with earlier processors—and not least because after three well-guarded years in development the chip came as a complete surprise. Sun Micro Systems Inc.,

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. It was Monday night. We left around 7:00 p.m.,

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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

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The plug-in car grant was introduced 10 years ago to stimulate the early market for zero-emission vehicles. 3 is set to become the people’s electric car with ample range, interior space equivalent to the class above and all the kit you will ever need. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This is the monthly flea market at Foothill College, and he rarely misses it. By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co.,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Raising money to bring a PHEV to market. But we have nothing to announce in terms of any kind of market place." Batteries not ready.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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