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Punching above its weight

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Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. Erb was an advisor to this team from the University of Idaho, finishing in first place with this Camaro EV conversion. Erb in the Porsche 914 EV conversion at EV races in Phoenix in 1998.

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Startup vision

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with a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “In Jing, Sutandar, and Fa (holding company mascot) at Purdue University. Our end goal is a universal passport,” explained Sutandar. In Jakarta, the water is brown and there’s garbage floating on top.

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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, thru April

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It’s all organized by Plug In America, the Sierra Club, the Electric Vehicle Association, EV Hybrid Noire, and Drive Electric USA. Earth Day EV Expo in Chicago, IL, which will include students from Illinois Tech and other universities showing off entries for the EV/autonomous EcoCAR challenge. April 14, 12pm-2pm. April 20, 8am-12pm.

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EV gateway

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The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. I charge the car on the solar array in my back yard.

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Grand Prize Combustion-Engine Winner at 2009 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Achieves 2,757.1 MPG

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The student team from Laval University (Quebec, Canada) took the grand prize in the “Prototype” category at the 2009 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas , held 15-18 April at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA, with 2,757.1 The UrbanConcept entries included two vehicles powered by combustion engines and one by solar power.

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EV gateway

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The club started in 2006, when you couldn’t buy an electric car. These are guys who were doing solar back in the Eighties.” “I’d My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. I charge the car on the solar array in my back yard.

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Time to shake-up EV outreach?

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Jim Hartman with his Nissan LEAF in front of solar trackers. That’s the local college extension program at Southern Oregon University (SOU), and we’re co-sponsoring a class on EVs.” I’d been in charge of the Ashland Lions Club website for many years and I learned quite a lot about what you can do through Wordpress,” Jorgenson said.

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