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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). The Department of the Army is contributing an additional $2.2 Description. Federal funding.

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

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In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp., Mountain View, Calif.—began It was the first portable computer run in an air­port.

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