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Concept: Compact Two-Cycle, Co-generating Piston-Driven Turbine to Deliver 60+% Efficiency

Green Car Congress

In 1983, he founded a document management software company called SER AG. SER’ document imaging product ITA had the largest volume of any document management system in the world. 2007) A review of free-piston engine history and applications. He worked for the Korf Steel company in Saudi Arabia as head of IT. Mikalsen R.,

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. At the moment, only 2004-2007 Priuses , and to a limited extent, the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrids.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Toyotas Winter 2007 Hybrid Synergy View Newsletter ) 2/18/07 [Bill Reinert, Toyotas U.S.

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