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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

The grant is part of the CEC’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Wrightspeed is currently building electric powertrain technology for two high-power markets: medium-duty fleet trucks (the Route system) and ultra-performance supercars (the Circuit all-wheel drive system). Click to enlarge.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. This last bit is the tricky part, as the control systems of all current hybrid vehicles are proprietary and not designed to function in this manner. edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. Its all about the Fuel Source!

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

is already up to his elbows in electronic parts, digging through stacks of dusty circuit boards. Ted Hoff is part of electronics industry legend. But the technical part of Hoff’s mind has no off-switch, and he quickly concluded that the engineers were going in the wrong direction. San Jose, Calif., Ted) Hoff Jr.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

(PICC) has completed a breakthrough software upgrade to its plug-in conversion kit that for the first time will allow all-electric mode driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in a converted Prius. Previous Prius conversion kits have been limited by Toyota programming to a top speed of 34 mph in all-electric mode.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

But this long-deferred move into the booming market in reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) was more of a shock, in part because it broke with Intel’s tradition of compatibility with earlier processors—and not least because after three well-guarded years in development the chip came as a complete surprise. Integer core.

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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. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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