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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

The owner of a FIL token is essentially buying a security connected to (and making a bet on) revenue in the data-storage market. That is not to say that a private digital currency created by one of these tech giants would create social value. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Apple is another obvious example.

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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

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. There is an aluminium bus bar for connecting the cells in series. Ola is organised by tech verticals, not by products. Since then he has stayed with the same battery. In extreme cold, there is a drop of about 5% in range. There is an increase in noise level in media.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? . “The more fluctuating energy you have from renewables, the more it makes sense to have a smart grid,&# said Markus Ewert from the new technologies team of German utility E.ON While utilities such as E.ON

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. Current batteries in new Toyota hybridsare ~$3000 if they need to be replaced.

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