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Smith Applies StormMQ CLoud-Based Message Queuing in EV Telematics System

Green Car Congress

StormMQ’s innovative machine-to-machine message queuing was designed for banks and finance houses as a secure and cost-effective method of collating and conveying confidential data. It works by storing the data in a network cloud and releasing it in a steady stream, so that the recipient’s server does not get overloaded.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

The case that I made for the Senate is that bidirectional capabilities, with the right V2G business model, can reduce the total cost of ownership of an EV, and therefore make EVs more affordable. The idea of vehicle-to-grid is that you are storing energy at the end of the distribution system, so you can absorb those peaks.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. we could not afford to do anything like this."

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short.

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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. that car was missing precisely what the Volt (and any other would-be electric car under consideration today) is missing -- an appropriate battery technology that provides decent power within a decent weight and space constraint at anything approaching a decent price.

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