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...world's electric vehicles, which are powered by cumbersome battery systems. The traditional lead-and-acid batteries require 100 times the weight and 30 times the space of conventional gasoline tanks to push even the lightest cars a fraction of the distance -- less than 100 miles at 25 m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile. When exposed to water in crash impacts, they have...
...potential, Detroit automakers realize that proving themselves wrong is the best way to reclaim market share. Says a senior executive of the Big Three: "The Japanese are our biggest worry. They are going to do anything absolutely necessary to keep their golden market." Though Nissan demurs that its own nickel-cadmium model is not quite ready for prime time, it has already produced the first advertising slogan of the new electric age, describing its FEV concept car as "gentle to people, gentle to society, gentle to Earth...
...fully deduct a $3,700 ride on the Concorde and a $600 bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. On the other hand, it isn't Sanka-sipping salesmen but well-fed executives who most savor the deduction and spark the most resentment. And after all, why should a single nickel be deductible at a place like The Men's Club, a lavish topless joint in Dallas, where up to 25% of the clientele are on expense accounts...
...long as possible on a single charge, have some sort of power management, with or without the help of a 386SI. A software driver determines which devices have bean idle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (NH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longer life than the more common and lest expensive nickel cadmider...
Some computers, including the CompuAdd Express 325NXL, are amazingly good at implementing helpful power management, although the worry that your computer may run out of juice in the mddle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (niH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longerl ife han the more common and less expensive nickel cadmium (niCad) ones...