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5 great electric cars still eligible for the Plug-in Car Grant

Drive EV

3 is set to become the people’s electric car with ample range, interior space equivalent to the class above and all the kit you will ever need. Hyundai KONA Electric (39kWh) – SE Connect. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. The new Id.3 3 offers upto 263 miles of range on a single charge.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

If you let people just dive in and try anything they want, any trick they’ve read about in some magazine, you end up with a lot of circuits that are marginal and flaky” —Roland Albers Path timings were documented in initial project specifications and updated at the weekly meetings Albers called once the actual designing of circuits was under way.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But Fukui said he saw no significant value in researching plug-in hybrid models, which can be recharged by connecting to a power plug. Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day. This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 10, 2009 11:21 am Link Kaare- Lithium Ion batteries do not contain lead (unless it is in solder connections) and do not contain acid. I’ve written several posts about these exact topics: Firefly Energy: [link] True cost to own of EVs (especially read through the comments on this one: [link] — Nick Chambers 3.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. The fact that no journalists do their research to bring up all those connections is sad, sad. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Posted by: Mike99 | Apr 13, 2009 6:25:20 PM The EV1 was an engineering Success. Call it the EV2?

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