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Hydrogen Trains, Upgrading A Water Heater, Cheap Solar — CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica EVs

Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […]. Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week.

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Junkyard Find: 1970 Volvo 145

The Truth About Cars

While not as easy to find as the 240 in Ewe Pullet yards these days, I still run across one or two 140s in junkyards per year, mostly in Volvo brick-loving Northern California. Plenty of curmudgeonly Silicon Valley tech-industry workers drove old Swedish cars to work for decade after decade. 1970 Volvo 145 in California junkyard.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. The rush planted the first two seeds for what was to become PostScript.

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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

Baua Electric

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. The Honda Clarity, an awkwardly proportioned electric sedan, was launched in California and Oregon a few years back but was axed pretty soon after that due to low sales.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. A Test of Vehicle-to-Grid Tech By the turn of the millennium, however, selling EV propulsion systems had become a hard way to make a living.

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Why One LEAF-Driving Cop Can't Drive Straight Home After Work Anymore

Plugs and Cars

In other words the one workplace charging solution that is cheap and easy and proven to work is disallowed in a solicitation intended to encourage more people to switch to plug-in cars. Some argue it’s so easy and so cheap employers should just do it. Maybe they tout it as smart and cheap.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

Cars That Think

Thermal Transistors Can Handle Heat With No Moving Parts H-Lab/UCLA In November, researchers from University of California, Los Angeles reported the invention of a thermal transistor, the first solid-state device that uses an electronic signal to control the flow of heat. That leaves more room to better pack in the data-carrying lines above.

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