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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

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Charged : Does the bill refer to both of those options or does it leave it open? The idea of vehicle-to-grid is that you are storing energy at the end of the distribution system, so you can absorb those peaks. Gregory Poilasne: The bill is agnostic. The bill is just saying the vehicles have to have bidirectional capabilities.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

0:00 / 4:40 Battery power for Chrysler The Circuit will be a purely plug-in car - there will be no gas tank or gasoline engine at all - with an expected range of 150 to 200 miles on a full charge. A Fiat-based battery powered small car is slated for production shortly after the Circuit, according to Chryslers viability plan.

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

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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. But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. More Andy Grove on battery power More Is it time to buy American Express?

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Peter Roach, Birmingham, UK Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries powered the late GM EV1 and still power hundreds of Toyota RAV4 EVs, some over 100,000 miles. Also, Firefly batteries now being produced use lead foam in lead-acid configuration, cutting their weight almost in half. May I ask what powers the heater?