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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

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This may just be more publicized speculation from Japan’s Magazine X. Unlike a standard automatic transmission, Toyota’s GR-DAT units are supposed to minimize slippage of the torque converter. The torque converter comes with a hydraulic circuit and lock-up clutch that’s supposed to transfer energy to the gears more efficiently.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging

Charged EVs

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. The next key component in an off-grid system is an inverter, which converts the nominal 48 VDC from the storage battery into the 120/240 VAC required by the house, EV charger, etc.

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Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. The next key component in an off-grid system is an inverter, which converts the nominal 48 VDC from the storage battery into the 120/240 VAC required by the house, EV charger, etc.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. You would tell it where you want to go—and since this is a trip, you make several times a year, you would have it as a stored destination—and you would tell the car, okay, give me a route and the car will route you via DC fast chargers.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. You would tell it where you want to go—and since this is a trip, you make several times a year, you would have it as a stored destination—and you would tell the car, okay, give me a route and the car will route you via DC fast chargers.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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