EcoSpeed: Driving directions plus fuel-efficient speeds along the way

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Lots of online mapping services tell people how to get someplace. A new Google Maps mashup, developed by Seattle-based Clarian Labs, also tells drivers how fast (or slow) they should drive along each leg of the route for maximum fuel efficiency — taking into account factors including traffic lights, speed limits and other local traffic… Read More…

Clarian trumps Bill Gates with rotary-piston hybrid battery

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Bill Gates and inventors connected to Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures made headlines two years ago with a patent application for an electromagnetic engine. Now a Seattle-based company, Clarian Labs, says it has developed a compact, electromagnetic hybrid battery  based on a rotary piston that can generate twice as much power as the one proposed by… Read More…