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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Zenith introduces first microprocessor-based tuning system and first cable-ready receiver; buys Heath to get into the personal computer business.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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The challenge—in which 3,800 teams from 100 countries participated—was to “design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles [32 kilometers] while carrying a single person.” But 16 years after its 2008 maiden flight, the $85,000 Aero-X is still not available for sale.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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It wasn’t her phone battery running out. Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers. By June 2015, Byland was the only person on the planet with two bionic eyes. Bob O’Connor.

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MAEAA Web Links

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PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. Battery chargers and DC/DC converters. DC PowerSystems : Mega-controller and battery regulators. Pontiac Fiero : rechargedwith solar array. Porsche911T : D. Curtis Instruments : Controllersand more. D&D Motor Systems, Inc. :DC

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

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It would then be offered for public use in 2012, said Brian Carolin, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Nissan North America Inc. But it does have the same electric motor and lithium-ion battery system that will power the five-passenger compact car that Nissan plans to roll out.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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Now, of course, Bright Automotive is ready to unveil the IDEA, with the expectation it will have 50,000 ready for sale in 2013. So, Im going to go out on a limb here and say bags of Frito snacks will soon be coming to stores near you with a lot less gasoline, noise and dirty emissions. (2 a lithium battery company.

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