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ECOtality installs first DC fast charger in Tennessee

Green Car Congress

ECOtality and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store unveiled the first Blink Direct Current (DC) Fast Charger in Tennessee at the Lebanon Cracker Barrel location. This is the first of 12 Cracker Barrel locations statewide that will install DC Fast Chargers as a part of The EV Project.

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ECOtality to Provide Blink EV Charging Stations at Select US Best Buy Stores

Green Car Congress

Blink Network chargers are fully interactive with color touch screens, and connect to a web portal that provides users with charge status, statistics, history, and billing information in addition to ease of payment options. The project is funded by the US Department of Energy through a federal stimulus grant of $114.8

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? And then, with transmission complete and the triggering stimulus gone, the system would shut down and return to a sleep or fully powered-off state. They developed an event-driven DC accelerometer that can detect change in tilt.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

As high officials of CalEPA and CARB got wind of Chu’s analysis of H2 and FCVs, they reportedly went to DC and lobbied furiously if unsuccessfully to pull him back. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit.

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