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Arc 1 Conversion Journal 3/3/2012

DIY Electric Car

My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. The climate control system is now separated and I am ready to install the ceramic heating element in the place of the heater core. For tachometer, I will be using a sensor ring on the second shaft end of the motor connected to a new instrument.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Green Car Congress

The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. This research into underwater coatings that prevent biofouling has the potential to positively impact all MHK systems and improve the conversion efficiency for MHK systems. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $192,000. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Zion becomes first national park with an all-electric shuttle bus service

Baua Electric

Zion National Park in Southern Utah is renowned for its colorful canyons and arches, and is one of the “mighty five” national parks in the region showing off Utah’s natural beauty. The fleet’s full conversion was announced this week , but the buses have already been operating and shuttling visitors.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. As Sutherland put it in his thesis , “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings.

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Abandoned History: The 2014 VIA VTRUX Pickup, a Forgotten Silverado

The Truth About Cars

The story begins with a company in Utah called Raser Technologies. The newly established company planned to introduce a whole line of PHEV vehicles, and their industry connection for completed passenger vehicles to convert (Lutz) was already in place. This sort of topic is the very reason Abandoned History exists. Until then!

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. University of Utah. University of Utah). unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more.

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