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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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Two 150-kilowatt electric motors together deliver 403 horsepower--enough to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in 5.8 But that kind of acceleration is available only in something called "sport" mode, which uses power from both the battery pack and the gas-powered generator. It takes the Volt about 9 seconds.)

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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General Atomics , a military contractor in San Diego, is also developing a laser of this power for the Army based on what’s known as the distributed-gain design , which has a single aperture. The old standby for powerful lasers employed chemical reactions in flowing gas. www.youtube.com. Not all ray guns must be lasers, though.

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