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News: Range Milestones Hit by Lucid and Rivian

Clean Fleet Report

Lucid also ran a real-world test of pre-production cars with Motor Trend magazine driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco that demonstrated the 500+ mile range of the car. On its road to its record range, Lucid developed a 900-volt battery system with a proprietary battery management system and miniaturized drive units.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. “We the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

But it seemed pretty impossible once I became The Godfather of Community Choice Power in Los Angeles County – The Big Green Mafia Don as the wing nut fossil fuel lovers dubbed me. I’ve been talking about doing this for a long time now – ever since my colleagues at 350.org And now it’s ten full years since.

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

Cars That Think

There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. “It’s a little hard to do language research and compiler research without having a machine,” said Mitchell.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Then he just about crapped in his pants when the friggin thing kept running out of a charge at the most inoportune time. To get the most mileage, one could not have the radio, the A/C, or the headlights on.

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