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September '06 - Tesla Roadster Unveiled, Electric Cars NOT DEAD YET!

Plugs and Cars

The shutdown by BP of its Prudhoe Bay drilling operation and the Alaska pipeline due to years of neglect threatened to reduce our domestic supply of gasoline. The war between Israel and Hizbollah has brought massive petroleum spills to Beirut’s beaches as a result of the bombing of an oil-burning electricity generation plant.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

His parents happily indulged this passion, buying him a computer and providing him with unrestricted Internet access. The VDoS gang members had been only 14 years old when they started to offer DDoS services from Israel in 2012. Up in Anchorage, Alaska, the FBI cyber unit was building a case against VDoS. The trio pled guilty.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. Instead they could buy back electricity at peak hours from vehicle drivers.

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