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Rite Aid Back to School Deals Week of 8/28/11

Green Car Reports

Mead Composition Books, 3/$1.98. Assorted Backpacks, Lunch Kits or Lunch Totes, 50% off. All Fashion Notebooks, Memo Books, Comp Books, Portfolios, Bookcovers or Book Soxes, B1G1 50% off. Posterboard, Grid Boards, Foam Boards, Project Boards, Royal Sign Kit with Stencil & Scissors, B1G1.

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HD REV powertrain company Wrightspeed gearing up for commercialization push

Green Car Congress

The Fulcrum generates fewer emissions per kWh than average for grid power in the US. The Route powertrain kit, complete with the Fulcrum turbine generator and Wrightspeed GTD reduces fuel consumption, emissions, and noise pollution. Wrightspeed sources battery cells and builds its own battery packs.

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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Vehicle to Grid is a really interesting area to do projects. The idea here is that you can connect your EV to the power grid and flow power from your EV to the Grid. An electric car acts as a load or micro-generating station for the grid. Advantages of V2G in grid perspective 2. are a few topics.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form. Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value. The company opened bookings in March and they believe that they will be able to deliver all of March booking in the next two months. After that, I think an open booking system will start.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. April 12, 2009 2:08 pm Link Obama’s “Social Democratic&# dream will be further unveiled after the failure of GM and Chrysler is certain and on the books. — Larry 4. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. Notice in [link] that GM carefully avoids claiming to reduce CO2 by shifting to the grid, but leads people off the track by focusing on smog related issues. The EV1s failure was a failure of Management. Fisker is a good example.

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