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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. This bold move on Big Blue’s part created a new family of computers that revolutionized the computer industry. Consider the example of a retail store.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk confirms increased investment, R&D efforts in China

Teslarati

One of the questions Musk answered asked about his perspective on data security in relation to intelligent and connected vehicles (ICV). “I believed data protection is not only an issue of one single company but should be a mutual effort for all industry players. Tesla does not usually transfer data overseas.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

Green Car Congress

The German Automobile Industry Association is working together with automotive manufacturers on uniform cell standards, Audi said. At an ordinary household single-phase connection the vehicle’s battery can be fully charged in about six hours, according to this model calculation, assuming that 2.5 kW of cooling power.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. So just use a portable electric generator in the trunk, from the hardware store to charge the batteries while you drive.

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