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Hamburg putting its first Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid buses into service

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Hamburger Hochbahn AG has acquired four Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL Hybrids under the German “NaBuZ demo” scheme to promote sustainable bus systems for the future. The latter are designed for an extended service life of at least six years or 12,000 operating hours. Drive power. Earlier post.). Overall length.

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GM and ABB demonstrate prototype of Volt battery pack grid re-use application

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Our target during this project has always been a field demonstration, putting it out in the field with used batteries and appropriate electronics to support the grid. The first step toward this field demo is to build a lab prototype. The Volt battery is charged and discharged according to a use profile appropriate to the application.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Many of the people at BCC were responsible for the design of the SDS 940, the computer on the strength of which Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems in 1968.) which had made the 1103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design, reaped one of the first benefits.

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