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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

Green Car Congress

The Low VMT case assumes an environment in which travel choices made by drivers result in lower demand for personal vehicle travel, consistent with the recent trend. Alternative modes of travel affect VMT to the degree that the population has access to substitutes for personal LDVs. —below the 1.7%

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

Cars That Think

The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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We thought,” Hoff told Spectrum , “we could integrate this, the analog-to-digital conversion, on a chip, and then use these circuits as the basis for switching.” Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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In April 2000, MafiaBoy was arrested and charged, and in January 2001 he pled guilty to 58 charges of denial-of-service attacks. With this information, it would seek court orders and then search warrants to acquire the content of the conspirators’ conversations. President Clinton ordered a national manhunt to find him.

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