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A one-of-a-kind secret Tesla Roadster R&D prototype is for sale

Baua Electric

Normally, we wouldn’t write an article just because someone is trying to sell any old car, even a Roadster (that said, I’m thinking of selling mine ). An after-purchase performance package would be a way to bring revenue in through service departments. Internal documentation about the project will be provided to the buyer.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

Cars That Think

The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. The technology is “able to use mostly empty ocean.”

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing.

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Starlink keeps this former Tesla employee online in the desert

Teslarati

A place that wasn’t Seattle or San Francisco.” ” While working at Tesla, Reid purchased a Model 3 and was one of the first people to actually live out of his Tesla. . “I kind of knew that there was something bigger–more different that I wanted to do. “I did that for about a year.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I “I ordered a controller from a company in California, which used a single power Darlington transistor, and 4 deep cycle 12-volt batteries.”