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UK Company to Introduce Hydrogen Fuel Cell Urban Car; Open Source Approach

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21 kg of ultracapacitors, capable of absorbing more than 30 kW of power from regenerative braking, and of delivering 15 kW for bursts of acceleration of up to ten seconds, enough time to reach maximum cruising speed. This energy is then stored in the ultracapacitors bank which can provide 80% of the power required for acceleration.

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

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Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Advocates believe that V2G can help pay for EV batteries.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Battery Powered Zero Emission Circulator Buses: Innovative Quick Opportunity Charge, Lithium-Ion Titanate Battery Powered Community Bus program. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., Frame buffer.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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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 Plug-in hybrids make little sense in a car with current battery technology," he said. BYD also developed the motors and software for the system. Detroit News ).

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