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Toyota unveils RAV4 EV demonstration vehicle; targeting fully-engineered version in 2012 for market

Green Car Congress

Toyota will build 35 of these Phase Zero vehicles—essentially converted RAV4s—for a demonstration and evaluation program through 2011. While Phase Zero vehicles are basically converted RAV4s, the Phase ONE vehicles we plan to bring to market in 2012 will be thoroughly re-engineered, Toyota RAV4 EVs. officer, TMS.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach. Any sensor that can convert a physical phenomenon into a change in resonant frequency could be read by RFID and therefore operated without a battery. They developed an event-driven DC accelerometer that can detect change in tilt.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

But it was simple to interface with the computer: the processor just read frequent samples of the potentiometer positioning signals through analog-to-digital converters. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. The ball mouse was the “easiest patent I ever got.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

they have a degree of autonomy beyond the reach of federal government and can often make tough decisions: for example, California’s climate goals and London’s congestion charging. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is. — Mark - Dallas 21.

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