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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

More than 200 such games have since been developed for the VCS—helping to spawn the sprawling, US$170 billion global video games industry today. The more affordable the price of a printer is kept, the higher is the demand for that printer’s ink cartridges. Consider the example of a retail store.

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Tesla Aiming For New Milestone Of Two Million Cars

MyEVOnline

Mainly, his masterplan required the company to produce high-end, expensive cars, that would further fund the production of more affordable electronic vehicles in the future. A company whose basic survival was doubted at its initial phase is set to come at par with leading giants in the automobile industry. What’s Next?

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Renault presents the 235 mpg EOLAB prototype; plug-in “Z.E. Hybrid”; targeting production

Green Car Congress

While electric vehicles are designed to store a high amount of energy because of the fundamental need to maximize the vehicle’s range, hybrid vehicles like EOLAB need to cover the same power requirement with a limited quantity of electrical energy. That means finding economically viable solutions that our customers can afford.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

Green Car Congress

The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. The demand-based control of this scroll compressor affords a highly efficient mode of operation. Audi is developing approaches for purely electric vehicles such as the R8 e-tron. Energy recuperation.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. We need an economy electric car that we an afford, not that nonsense. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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