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DAF Putting LF Hybrid Truck Into Production; Eaton Hybrid System

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Volt cells. In addition to the battery pack, DAF hybrid technology consists of a current transformer that converts the alternating current supplied by the generator to direct current for the batteries. DAF is the market leader in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary.

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Daimler Buses introduces Citaro hybrid bus; available on diesel and gas models; separate 48V network

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Among its numerous debuts at Busworld Europe in Belgium, Daimler Buses took the wraps off the new Citaro hybrid urban bus. The city bus is the first commercial vehicle to come with a separate 48 volt network, similar to that found on hybrid passenger cars from Mercedes-Benz.

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Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

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The only way to keep up computing’s exponential pace now is a scheme called system technology cooptimization (STCO), argued researchers at ITF World 2023 last week in Antwerp, Belgium. as the Belgium-based nanotech research organization is calling it, is a complicated vision.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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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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LG Chem to establish new electrolyte production plant in Michigan

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Granholm announced that LG Chem will establish a new electrolyte production plant in Holland in West Michigan, expanding the state’s battery supply chain. LG Chem, which is supplying the battery for the new Chevy Volt, has a new contract with Ford Motor Company to supply the battery for the 2012 Ford Focus BEV.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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At that time, MOS was supplying equipment to Atari Inc. Not only did the chip run fast, but to prevent the colors from washing out, as they had in the VIC-20, “we went to 12 volt to drive the heck out of the color signals,” recalled Winterble. “We One provided a power supply for engineering approval,” Ziembicki recalled. “It

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