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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Deploy up to 150 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, including 130 Ford Escape PHEVs and 20 Ford E450 Van PHEVs. Rolla, MO Warrensburg, MO Linn, MO St. Louis, MO Kansas City, MO Lee’s Summit, MO. Chrysler LLC. $70. Smith Electric Vehicles. $10.

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

Cars That Think

Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. First Steps When Goldman set up PARC, one of his first decisions was to ask George E. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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