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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. Whats more, mainstream consumers wont be able to buy it when it comes to market. Right Now can be seen here. (Yes,

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles. My Web del.icio.us My Web del.icio.us

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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For example, Mr. Smith, who was well acquainted with the price of electronic components from his early work on reducing the cost of the Apple II, made many decisions about the economics of Macintosh hardware without time-consuming consultations with purchasing agents.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

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One “Jeep guy” wrote, “I didn’t buy the 4xe because it was a hybrid. He bought the 4xe, he said, because it was more powerful than the rest of the range, and with the federal income-tax credit, it hadn’t cost him any more. How about a lease cost of $265 per month, with $3,940 due at signing? Jeep forums are mixed.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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In contention was the contract for the electronics of Polaroid’s secret project—a pioneering product introduced in 1972 as the SX-70, a camera eventually purchased by millions of people. And Polaroid wanted to buy this exposure controller for US $5.75. The referee, judge, promoter, and only spectator was Polaroid. Cambridge, Mass.

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