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FedEx Introducing Its First Battery-Electric Parcel Delivery Trucks in US

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FedEx already has 10 Modec electric trucks in service in London ( earlier post ), with five more on order for Paris. Two of the new all-electric trucks come from Navistar, and are being assembled in Indiana. Four purpose-built electric trucks are slated to hit the road in the Los Angeles area starting in June 2010.

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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

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de Queiroz /Wikipedia Wimshurst’s electrical pursuits were entirely a hobby, something he did in his spare time at his house in Clapham in southwest London. Most fit easily on a tabletop, such as this one preserved at the Science Museum London, which measures 56 by 67 by 30.5 Antônio Carlos M. centimeters.

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