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Lessons from a year with solar power

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Initially our Electricity was provided by Scottish Power. Asking them to convert to Eco 7 configuration to power the LEAF at cheaper night rate was proving impossible. At the time Scottish Power had little if any concept of Eco7 and ‘smart’ meters. Inverter: This is the most important bit of kit. Octopus Go.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready.

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

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GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success.

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