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TrovaCV, Chateau Energy Solutions Team up for Simplified, Low-Cost EV Deployment

Green Fleet Magazine

Trova Commercial Vehicles and Chateau Energy Solutions said their partnership will accelerate deployment of commercial electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. It will do this by providing diesel-to-electric refits, new Class 8 battery-electric yard trucks, and EV charging infrastructure.

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EVs to be showcased in London to Brighton electric vehicle rally

Drive EV

From the Sinclair C5 to the Jaguar i -Pace – The Big Lemon London to Brighton electric vehicle rally is set to be a showcase of innovation across electric motoring and clean energy. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars. Want to join in? E-Motorbikes. Saloon cars. Sel f -builds. Public Transport. . •

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape.

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Belching Volcano and Flowing Lava Dent Tourism in Icelandic Region

Baua Electric

And the low-cost Icelandic airline Play said that news of the eruption “cooled demand for Iceland as a destination.” The resort owes its existence to the geothermal energy generated by the volcanic system, which heats up its waters. “A spouting volcano doesn’t sound very inviting,” he said. The spa is now protected by barriers.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Energy Department is also preparing to award as muchas $25 billion in low-cost federal loans for production ofadvanced technology vehicles, with many of the applicationscoming from companies planning to build plug-ins or thebatteries and components needed to power them. “I It looks likehydrogen has lost at this stage.”

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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. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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