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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But that kind of acceleration is available only in something called "sport" mode, which uses power from both the battery pack and the gas-powered generator. Two 150-kilowatt electric motors together deliver 403 horsepower--enough to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in 5.8 It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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General Atomics , a military contractor in San Diego, is also developing a laser of this power for the Army based on what’s known as the distributed-gain design , which has a single aperture. With an airplane you have the least amount of resources—least volume, least weight—that is available to you. www.youtube.com.

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