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2000 miles and counting

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

I broke 2000 miles with the 914 EV this week. Researching my motivations and how much I'm willing to throw myself into this will definitely be important. The car has been running smoothly with no complaints. This presents the dilemma of running down the 12V battery while the main pack is charging. Have a great weekend everyone.

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The Age of the Car is Gone, that of the SUV has succeeded

Cars That Think

It further reinforces Kenneth Boulding's 47-year-old definition of a driver as a "knight with the mobility of the aristocrat," the envy of the peasants who go on foot. In 2000, the average U.S. percent by 2000. No matter, the acronym has stuck, demand is still growing, and sales are padding automakers' earnings worldwide.

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NRG and GenOn to Merge to create largest competitive power generation company in the US; 47,000 MW net combined capacity

Green Car Congress

signed a definitive agreement to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock tax-free transaction. NRG and GenOn combined have invested more than $3 billion since 2000 to reduce emissions. NRG Energy, Inc. and GenOn Energy, Inc.

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Tracing The Ancestry of Today’s Electric Vehicles (Part 3)

CleanTechnica EVs

This is definitely true, but […]. The GM Sunraycer, and The Quiet Achiever Wikipedia and most other sources will state that GM’s Impact (the EV1’s prototype) grew out of GM’s Sunraycer project.

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Chinese language EV makers pin hopes on Europe’s auto sellers

Baua Electric

However with its unrivaled keep an eye on of the battery provide chain, China is definitely located to make bigger its proportion. Tesla’s good fortune has proven that buyers are clear to outsiders, although it’s vague whether or not Chinese language manufacturers will be capable of fit the promoting draw of Elon Musk.

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At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer into Your Brain

Cars That Think

From a scientific perspective, this is definitely opening a new avenue in optical brain imaging,” says Stefan Carp , an associate professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the work. Bigger Cameras Could Lead to Practical Uses This design proved extremely fruitful. Then ‘I got the 40,000-pixel one.’

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Cars That Think

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy.