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Universal Hydrogen successfully completes first flight of hydrogen fuel cell powered regional airliner

Green Car Congress

Universal Hydrogen has flown a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. In this first test flight, one of the airplane’s turbine engines was replaced with Universal Hydrogen’s fuel cell-electric, megawatt-class powertrain. The other remained a conventional engine for safety of flight.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

And there is Robb Protheroe's offer to integrate the new Li-ion battery pack with the PluginSupply kit and system, once shipped by DPS to Petaluma, CA. DPS is building commercial battery packs from smart universal battery modules ("UBM(TM)") as building block. See also 11 October email exchange below. The "RVJerry" Rationale: 1.

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Stretch 3 Brings Us Closer to Realistic Home Robots

Cars That Think

This is an example of turning innovation from the community of Stretch users into product features, a product development approach that seems to be working well for Hello Robot.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ryan Fulcher of Seattle Electric Auto Association, April 2006 CalCars and Maker Faire team ("PriusBlue" EAA-PHEV method later modified by Manzanita Micro as "PiPrius" testbed) King County, WA Contact Ryan Fulcher at webguy2007(at)eaa-phev(dot)org. Peter Mullen, PHEV 2008 Prius by Hybrids Plus , Nov 2007, (Boulder, CO for Seattle resident).

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Jayram works with Google and has been staying at Seattle for two decades before that. The womenfolk created some sewing kits and embroidery frames. He shifted base to Mysore and became a student of the LLB program of Mysore university. We diverted to Sim’s garden and caught up with our friend.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Some answers on consumer expectations and daily performance should come out of evaluations of the prototypes to be conducted at the Irvine and Berkeley campuses of the University of California that will begin later this month. Toyota is also concerned that plug-in owners might tire of connecting their cars every day.

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