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

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Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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

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Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. and Toronto, Ont.,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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"Were encouraged by the improvements in the technology represented by hybrid batteries today," Savagian says. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. Marketwatch ). Detroit News ).

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