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Peeking into the Future: Electric Cars
Electric cars have one further advantage over conventional vehicles: dynamic braking. This is an old technique, in wide use in electric streetcars a century ago. The idea is quite simple. When the operator wants to slow the vehicle, applying the brake pedal turns the electric motor powering the wheels into an electric ...
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Niagara Falls - Steetcars & Trolleys : a history
In 1927, the Canadian National Electric Railway trip between Niagara Falls and St. Catharines took 40 minutes one way. By the end of 1947, all the electric streetcars ...
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Taken for a Ride - How General Motors (GM) Conspired to Destroy Rail Trolley Systems
Trolleys ran on most major avenues every few minutes. Steel track and quiet electric motors made the ride smooth and clean and comfortable. The center of the road was reserved for streetcars ... get rid of the streetcars. They wanted the space that the streetcars used for automobiles. ... the headaches started. Interviewer: Weren't those streetcars making money in Los Angeles? Barney Larrick, ...
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Niagara Falls Thunder Alley Site Map
Park & River Railway Power Station Canadian Niagara Power Company Ontario Power Company Toronto Electric Light Company & The Toronto Power Station Ontario Hydro & Sir Adam Beck Sir Adam ... Subchaser Sunbeam - history Skylines of Niagara Falls (pictures) SkyView Airlines - history Spanish Aero Car Streetcars & Trolleys - history Table Rock - history The Front Terrapin Point - history Toll Roads - ...
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"Energy resources and our future" - remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957 | Energy Bulletin
But, unless science can perform the miracle of synthesizing automobile fuel from some energy source as yet unknown or unless trolley wires power electric automobiles ... most uneconomical user of energy. Its efficiency is 5% compared with 23% for the Diesel-electric railway. It is the most ravenous devourer of fossil fuels, accounting for over half ...
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Greater Ohio- Recent News
Ohio Utility companies in need of qualified workers Read more Marietta discusses the possibility of Streetcars Read more "If new jobs aren't where ther poor are, poverty persists" Read ... Clear Up Registration/Early Voting Confusion Consumer Advocates Call for Protections in Latest Draft of Electric Policy Rules Groups Sponsor Regional Forums on Utilities' ESPs Is Underage Drinking an 'Emergency' ...
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