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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

In addition to Japan and the United States, Honda is considering the possibility of conducting a similar program in China. In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. Click to enlarge.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Pending Google actually getting EV charging stations right and up to date, the first go-to is an app called Plug Share, which has been out there for a decade or more.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Will we have a universal standard for charging? It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. Pending Google actually getting EV charging stations right and up to date, the first go-to is an app called Plug Share, which has been out there for a decade or more.