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Tier 1 HELLA evaluating PowerGenix NiZn batteries for 48V mild hybrid vehicles

Green Car Congress

Micro hybrid vehicles are traditional gasoline- or diesel-powered cars with automatic, battery-powered stop-start systems that shut off the engine while the vehicle is at rest and restart it upon re-engaging the gas pedal. Nickel-zinc batteries are chemically very similar to nickel-cadmium, NiCd.

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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

Cars That Think

My friend gave me an internal history of the company written by its founder, Boris Hagelin. To decrypt the message, those same rotors and settings, along with those of the modificator, must be re-created in the receiver's identical machine. A 12-volt DC linear power supply runs the motor and printer and charges the battery.