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UT Arlington project for Navy investigating how batteries age when run at high rates

Green Car Congress

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. A $288,000 ONR DURIP grant, along with Dr. Jain, to buy equipment that enhances the quality of the thermal characterization of batteries.

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Gilchrist Car expands with 3 acquisitions

Baua Electric

Stephen and Charlie Gilchrist of Gilchrist Car in Hudson Oaks, Texas, purchased 4 dealerships in 3 transactions this past, together with the crowd’s first Honda collect. Gilchrist Car purchased the 2 shops Jan. 26 from Tim Allred of Rocky Mountain Yeti Car Staff and renamed them SouthWest Buick-GMC and SouthWest Honda.

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GM workaround for transport snags: Broker pickup from the manufacturing unit

Baua Electric

“One unit is one more spot on a rail [car], it’s one more spot on a truck. It does help the overall capacity,” Bell informed Car Information. It has greater that to up to $1,050 for touring greater than 800 miles to vegetation in Arlington, Texas; Wentzville, Mo.; Fortress Wayne, Ind.; and Oshawa, Ont.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

Lynch continued this trade-show-like approach with the TCP/IP Interoperability Conference in Monterey in March 1987 and the 2nd TCP/IP Interoperability Conference in Arlington, Va., in December of the same year. In many respects, Interop ’88 was far more successful than ENE. It featured working products from more vendors than did ENE.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. Afterward several members of Congress went outside for test drives in a plug-in hybrid brought to Washington by Cal-Cars. Keene, N.H.,