Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News.

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MAY 31, 2022

BrightDrop offers a fascinating window into the breadth of GM’s EV plans, though even many people in the auto industry know little about it. Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

This article was first published as “Lotfi A. He never considered going into industry, he said, because money was no problem. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. It appeared in the June 1995 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

The lab hosts some 3,000 guest researchers each year, about one-fourth from industry. research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2011

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have developed a novel high-power composite material for supercapacitor electrodes. mL/g from mercury porosimetry). ACS Nano Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/nn1017457.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

What surprised the rest of the home-computer industry most, however, was the introductory price of the Commodore 64: $595 for a unit incorporating a keyboard, a central processor, the graphics and sound chips, and 64 kilobytes of memory instead of the 16 or 32 that were then considered the norm. “We A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. Please see the related Hybridcars.com article Are Hybrid Batteries Toxic? Whats Vehicle-to-Grid and why would I like it?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The state of Michigan, which has seen its economy decimated by the collapse of the gas-powered auto industry, is pouring incentives into the alt-car market. and Mark Brady, the departments sustainable development liaison. It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries.

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