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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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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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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. 1, 2000) Sited: [link] You can google it and find it anywhere that vehicles have always placed more harmful chemicals into the air. The use and technology of a computer cable does change, so the plug cant remain for 25 years or whatever.