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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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Another three are on the West Coast and in Hawaii: Seattle (4), Portland (5), and Honolulu (6). Adoption of EVs in the market also has been accelerated by peer-to-peer selling at tech and transportation workplaces such as Texas Instruments and BNSF Railroad. —Erik Gottfried, Nissan director of EV Sales and Marketing.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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Every big name in consumer tech, from Apple to Qualcomm, is racing to optimize its hardware and software to run artificial intelligence at the “edge”—meaning on local hardware, not remote cloud servers. Intel’s not alone. The very large LLMs are too slow to use for speech-based interaction.”

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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

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Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Headquarters: Phoenix, AZ Manufacturing: Phoenix, AZ and Northern California Deployment: Portland, Salem, Eugene and Corvallis, OR; Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; Phoenix and Tucson, AZ; Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, TN. Purdue University.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. This one performed addition.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# Filling car batteries overnight, or any other time when no longer limited by our current mind locking, tech blocking, bullshit 120 vac, crap system, and fed by high volt D.C.Or About Gas 2.0

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EV Chargers for All!

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Rebecca DeWhitt charges her electric vehicle in the driveway of the Portland, Ore., Nor is it surprising, as a University of California, Berkeley study found, that homeowners purchase EVs at nearly six times the rate of renters. Even as used EV prices decline, the vast majority are still out of most renters’ budgets. and SK Energy.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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EnergyCS/Clean-Tech, May 2005 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA info@energycs.com 4. Jim Tech Ltd. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Contact gaussiandither@. Green Gears, Inc.

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