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Update on Nissan’s 1-motor, 2-clutch hybrid system

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kWh Li-ion battery pack. Clutch 1 (a dry single-plate clutch) is installed between the engine and the electric motor. This clutch allows the full decoupling of the V6 when the systems is in either electric or power regeneration modes, thereby reducing mechanical drag and boosting the efficiency of the electric motor.

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PG&E, Tesla team up to boost battery backups for power grid

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which submitted a request Friday to the California Public Utilities Commission to build and install four large banks of lithium-ion battery storage, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The latest example is Pacific Gas and Electric Co., The projects would include Tesla's.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. SAN FRANCISCO — If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore.,

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

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Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. No word yet on which EVs will take part. (GM

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

A much better way to conserve battery power would be to use none of it at all until the system actually had important data to transmit. The system would remain in an ultralow-power sleep mode, or even an open-circuit mode, with no current flowing, until the sensor itself detected an important signal.

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

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began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. The 1985 Siggraph art show in San Francisco alone received 4000 entries. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Mountain View, Calif.—began Poor Adele,” Tesler said.

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