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GM and Segway announce two-wheeled urban transport vehicle
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General Motors and Segway have teamed up on Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), a two-wheeled city vehicle capable of reaching speeds up to 35 miles per hour, and going 35 miles on a single charge at a cost of 35 cents per charge.
Aside from the promise of nimble, [...]
Time to Reboot America (Canada and the rest of the West too)
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I had a bad day last Friday, but it was an all-too-typical day for America.
It actually started well, on Kau Sai Chau, an island off Hong Kong, where I stood on a rocky hilltop overlooking the South China Sea and talked to my wife back in Maryland, static-free, using a friend’s Chinese cellphone. [...]
In search of the perfect battery
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Energy technology: Researchers are desperate to find a modern-day philosopher’s stone: the battery technology that will make electric cars practical. Here is a brief history of their quest.
WHEN General Motors (GM) launched the EV1, a sleek electric vehicle, with much fanfare in 1996, it was supposed to herald a revolution: the start [...]
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