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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

While a wireless charger saves you from having to connect and disconnect cables repeatedly, the distance over which energy can be delivered this way is quite short. This wouldn’t be such a silly connection to make. Reducing the need to transport fuel, batteries, or other forms of stored energy will have far-reaching consequences.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

IEEE Spectrum has a full write up on the kit , but since that article was written Hart has come out with a revised version that's even easier to connect to a modern PC, so you can download programs without needing to toggle them in bit by bit!

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Tarun used to regularly swap batteries in the first year, but does not swap nowadays. A few months ago, he got a brand new battery at the swap station. Since then he has stayed with the same battery. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The original idea was three wheeler rickshaw battery swapping.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 10:09 am Link It amazes me that in the vast debate about electric cars world wide including here in Norway, no one ever mention the fact that the batteries in such cars need replacement in no more than five years. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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