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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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Ah (at a C1 rate) after 51,000 miles driven, which is a very minimal capacity loss when comparing an average 7.55 East Penn obtained a patent in 2008 to produce the UltraBattery energy storage technology, and it has used UltraBattery modules in its own demonstration hybrid (also based on a Honda Civic HEV). Ah for the new modules.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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It was the end of 2008, October, right before the holiday shopping season. E Ink’s version is made of microcapsules of negatively charged black particles and positively charged white particles—the same pigments used in the printing industry today—floating in clear liquid. Each microcapsule is about the width of a human hair.

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