Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 3, 2025

Two electric motors and a battery later, the Forester has fixed many of the issues I had with the gas-powered model. Call it a placebo from the moments of total silence when the car is on battery power, but I feel compelled to report it nonetheless.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2009

The company has since expanded to develop and produce numerous implantable medical devices, and has expanded to provide technology solutions for critical industrial applications, including customized battery power and wireless sensing systems.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

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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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

at a San Francisco Bay Area boneyard. The Newark yard has these five right now, while the San Jose yard (which, by the way, has one of the best taco trucks in the San Francisco Bay Area in its parking lot) boast 10 Leafs for your parts-pulling pleasure. Here's a quintet of first-generation Leafs (Leaves?)

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Paradox 1 - Soot: There's an apparent emissions paradox with plug-in hybrids (PHEV): Driving longer distances on battery power means more cold starts as the internal combustion engine (ICE) stops and starts up again after the batteries deplete. Cold starts mean more pollution. What is possible? What is preferable?

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As weve detailed in the past, Lightship is a startup rooted in San Francisco with operations in Broomfield, Colorado. Today, the company unveiled the Lightship AE.1the 1the production-ready version of its predecessor. It is now on sale as a limited Cosmo Edition, of which only a limited supply will be built and sold.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Having raked in perhaps 30 percent of all the money invested in electrically-powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft so far, Joby is the colossus in an emerging class of startups working on these radical, battery-powered commercial flyers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries offer benefits over their lithium-ion counterparts. They can discharge faster, providing short, intense bouts of power. Modern life runs on lithium-ion batteries , powering smartphones, laptops and electric cars alike. But as dominant as they’ve become, there are other ways to build a battery.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2024

Inside the common area — a large tent that acts as a front desk, restaurant, snack bar and hang out — a couple from San Francisco with a dachshund had just finished registering. I got dressed, grabbed a battery-powered lantern and stepped out into the night. Where are the stars? to my safari-style tent.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple. BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

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 The Aurora 100 is now used by corporations to develop in­ house training films and presentation graphics. Poor Adele,” Tesler said.

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