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Sprig Electric pairs Tesla Powerpack with rooftop PV system

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Silicon Valley-based Sprig Electric is among the first electrical contractors in the nation to pair Tesla’s Powerpack stationary battery system ( earlier post ) with a 350 kW commercial rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system to optimize energy savings. Customers can use the battery’s stored electricity to reduce peak demand.

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Azure Dynamics announces sales of 29 Transit Connect Electrics

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Azure Dynamics Corporation announced 29 new Ford Transit Connect Electric sales, including 8 units in Europe and 21 units in North America, which includes a 3-unit reorder from Johnson Controls, Inc. Mission Valley Ford in San Jose, CA (2 units). These sales include: Van Bortel Ford in Rochester, NY. Hawk Ford in Oak Lawn, IL.

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. San Jose, Calif.,

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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These charging sites will be located at 7-Eleven convenience stores, and will provide a charging network in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. The agreement includes $2.5 million in match funding. Green Charge’s California offices are located in Huntington Beach (Orange County).

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. San Jose, Calif., and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology. While a research manager at Intel Corp., This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.”

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Quality still lacking Though these modifications have been made in the C-64 since its introductions, designers who write commercial software for the machine would like to see a few more. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. They don’t test,” said Nelson of Epyx.

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