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...company plans to deliver its first Karma roadster early next year. It is getting $528 million in low-interest, government-guaranteed loans to refine its plug-in hybrid-drive system, originally developed by its partner Quantum Technology of Irvine, Calif., with grants from the U.S. Department of Defense. Using that technology, the Karma can travel for 50 miles on lithium-ion batteries before the gasoline engine turns on to act as a generator, Fisker says. The preliminary price tag for the Karma...
...Model S can be plugged into conventional outlets or be fully quick-charged from a higher-powered system in as little as 45 minutes and the engineering platform will also be used for derivatives including a minivan and crossover utility vehicle, O'Connell notes...
Harvard College Library is going online! No, they're not putting up online versions of all the texts in the Harvard library system (Only in FlyBy's dreams). In fact, the library's new initiative involves the biggest source of procrastination ever. Facebook...
...care and economic recession. Moreover, President Obama hasn’t even completed one year in office. Complex issues can’t be solved overnight, and he inherited quite a mess to begin with. We should also remember that the president is just one man. In a political system that rests, ideally, on a balance of power, effective leadership requires collaboration and compromise. That said, this president is sometimes too collaborative, too willing to compromise on matters of both policy and principle. His Achilles heel is that he wants everyone to like him. Indeed, so far, Obama has failed...
...financed, and should it include a tax hike on the wealthy or a tax on high-end insurance plans? There will also be renewed debate over some of the side issues that have arisen, such as coverage of abortion and whether illegal immigrants might find ways of entering the system...