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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., I will pay nothing for my 300 mile road trip.)

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

Cars That Think

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. San Jose, Calif., No earlier technology had done them justice.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Jose, Calif., Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) San Jose Mercury News ). Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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