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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

EV Connect

A report from the Congressional Research Service found that, despite the higher emissions produced during the battery manufacturing process, the life-cycle emissions of a battery-powered electric vehicle are significantly lower than those produced by gas-powered vehicles.

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DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Funds to Spur Growth of Fuel Cell Markets

Green Car Congress

will establish the environmental and cost benefits of using a 1kW fuel cell power system to generate electricity, as opposed to traditional gas/diesel generators and lead-acid battery power sources. Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis, MO).

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

Cars That Think

Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We First Steps When Goldman set up PARC, one of his first decisions was to ask George E. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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