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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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ONE’s hybrid battery pack combines the best aspects of two chemistries to deliver 600 miles of EV range

Charged EVs

Building off of that, we’ve been able to design something with much higher power density than any automotive DC-DC, at least that I’ve seen, and great efficiency. Did my undergrad at MIT and then PhD at Berkeley, pretty much all in energy technologies—solar, hydrogen storage for fuel cell vehicles. Can you tell us what led you to ONE?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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