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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

billion in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce batteries and their components and to expand battery recycling capacity; $500 million in grants to US-based manufacturers to produce electric drive components for vehicles, including electric motors, power electronics, and other drive train components; and. San Francisco, CA.

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Noodoe University: Charging for Charging

Noodoe

For example, what counts as a thoroughly reasonable price in San Francisco is quite different from that same number in St. Louis or Edinburgh. This code acts just like a Wi-Fi password, granting charger access to anyone with the password. How much should I charge? The sky’s the limit! Access Code App.

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

Cars That Think

Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Shoup stayed at PARC, supported by Kay’s research group, while Smith moved on, armed with a National Education Association grant to do computer art. The 1985 Siggraph art show in San Francisco alone received 4000 entries.

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