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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Lotus Engineering and Harmon International, two heavyweights in their respective industries, have teamed up to create a new technology known as Electronic Sound Synthesis (ESS). Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise. Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. The use and technology of a computer cable does change, so the plug cant remain for 25 years or whatever. Neutral jakem @ Apr 19th 2009 5:22PM I bet Im not using the same electrical plug as you. They arent standardised internationally.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Outside of North America, 2008 was the second-best sales year in the last decade and the third-best ever for Chrysler International. i would like to see maybe Smith America build a conversion of their current cars, maybe have a retrofit model so you dont have to get rid of the trucks at all, just upgrade!

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