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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Drive Oregon. Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. Accelerated Development and Deployment of LowCost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Plug In America.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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How USB Came to Be

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USB ports now are standard on personal computers and are built into many other electronic devices such as smartphones, eBook readers, and game consoles. The IEEE Oregon Section sponsored the nomination. The Universal Serial Bus, which was released in 1996 by Intel , simplified things. The dedication ceremony is still being planned.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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body length per second, close to five times faster than the fastest similar soft swimmers, and also a high-power efficiency with low cost of energy. [ How do you program a personality? It can achieve a high average swimming speed of 3.74 Can robots pick up a single M&M? Why do we keep making humanoid robots?

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative. It didn’t depict real airspace or modern airplanes.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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Here, however, the plan was to make it possible for users to bypass the SRAM and attach the processor directly to a DRAM, which would allow the chip to be designed into low-cost systems as well as to address very large data structures. will be using the i860 in personal-computer graphics boards. By 9:30 p.m. Microsoft Corp.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov.

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