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Audi of America and Arcadia offer renewable energy subscription with e-tron or e-tron Sportback lease or purchase

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The program runs from 2 March to 30 April 2021, while supplies last. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Technical Achievements

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NEWELL POWER ELECTRONICS AWARD Sponsor: IEEE Power Electronics Society DRAGAN MAKSIMOVIC University of Colorado at Boulder “For contributions to digital control, modeling, and topologies of switched-mode power supplies.” IEEE DONALD O.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” In the UK, experiments are. None evolved into a large-scale system.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and other Northern European countries, contact SP Innovation. Plug-In Supply www.plug-insupply.com , Petaluma, CA, offers complete conversion components with extended life lead-acid battery packs for $4,995 based on the EAA-PHEV open source conversion method CalCars has helped develop.

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