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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of safe laser power beaming prior to our team’s effort was by the company.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Also reduces overheads for the company. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The company had hired 20 Innovas for media transport, two journalists per car. I don’t think the company is currently producing those numbers. The paint shop alone requires about one lakh litres of makeup water every day.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Firefly Energy is the most prominent of these companies. In the U.S. — Larry 4.

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