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To: WALT REISCH who wrote (3347)	3/18/1999 1:30:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 8393

The directions to the Presidential Banquet Center, on the back of the annual report, are screwy. Click on this URL and just zoom out on the interactive map to get your bearings. The red star should be the site. Use nearby Ireland Park for a reference, as it is shown on all of the zooms. yp.yahoo.com Del

To: WALT REISCH who wrote (3347)	3/18/1999 2:02:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

This map puts the PresidentialBanquet Center (red star) in perspective to the major highways. Click on printable version for a broader view. yp.yahoo.com Del

To: WALT REISCH who wrote (3347)	3/18/1999 9:21:00 AM
From: jacq	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8393

Canada gets into the act. Hydro-Quebec Committed to Development of Viable Electric Vehicle Industry; Montreal Project First Ever in Canada 12:55 p.m. Feb 03, 1999 Eastern NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Hydro-Quebec, a leading North American energy provider, announced it is partnering with government and industry on Canada's first-ever project to encourage the use of electric vehicles in the greater Montreal area. The Montreal 2000 Electric Vehicles Project, scheduled to last two years at an estimated cost of US $2 million, will assist vehicle fleet organizations in acquiring approximately 40 electric vehicles for regular use in their fleets. Hydro-Quebec will supply recharging stations to participating organizations for the duration of the project. The Montreal 2000 Electric Vehicles Project will consist of four parts: a purchase assistance program, a program to develop a recharging infrastructure, a research project to study the benefits of electric vehicles and a user support program. It is estimated that the use of electric vehicles will help reduce CO2 emissions by more than 3.8 tons per vehicle per year. "In terms of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, this project delivers a double whammy," says Serge Roy, Hydro-Quebec's project manager for Electric Transportation and Board member the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas (EVAA). "First, the use of electric vehicles will result in significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction; second, the electricity supplied by the recharging stations will be generated through hydropower, which does not produce CO2. Due to Hydro-Quebec's reliance on hydropower, the province's per capita CO2 emissions are about half of what they are in the United States. The Montreal 2000 Electric Vehicles Project is yet another important step in the right direction," concluded Mr. Roy. In addition to Hydro-Quebec, other partners in the project include the Governments of Canada and Quebec, Norvik Traction and the Quebec-based Center for Experimentation on Electric Vehicles (CEVEQ). Hydro-Quebec is a publicly owned utility with a total available capacity of 37,000 MW, serving 3.4 million customers in the province of Quebec. It trades electricity with neighboring systems in Canada and the United States, and is a member of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council and the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas. Hydro-Quebec reported assets of US$40 billion and revenue close to US$6 billion in 1997. SOURCE Hydro-Quebec Copyright 1999, PR Newswire

To: WALT REISCH who wrote (3347)	3/18/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: fred whitridge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Today's WSJ carries a piece on the Daimler Chrysler wunderkind: the fuel cell car to debut in the showrooms in 2004. Lets see. By then I will have asked poor Bob Stempel on 20 quarterly earnings calls how Ovonic is doing on their slide to $150/kwh (assuming they haven't already got there and they keep letting me ask questions). Mike Fetcenko will probably have doubled the wh/kg and the range of Don Devlin's third or fourth EV1 will be well up over 300 miles (range goes up by more than the doubling of the specific energy since you aren't dragging as much battery weight around.) California will be considering outlawing the use of methanol in alt fueled vehicles after a few accidents (take a look in a racing catalog if you want to see how pleasant methanol is) and the few fuel cell vehicles will be annoyed at how many shop visits their complicated fuel reformer systems need to stay in peak tune. "But honey we just had a new rare earth catalyst put in and this is the third steam reformer this year!!" Arthur D. Little will be exposed as a pawn of the oil companies and will be roundly laughed at for having said back in the 20th century that gasoline could actually be a good source of hydrogen. Tyler Lowery, Ken Baker, and John Adams will have been knighted by the Queen and shall be presiding over a company with billions of market cap. Every school child shall know how to spell OUM and will know that 1 mill kapton was just a stepping stone to powering a big chunk of space, and a continent or two of planet earth. 2004 for a fuel cell powered car? Whew! A lot could happen between now and then. At least we can book some thermal hydride storage business out there...