The trailblazing body shell structure of the SLS AMG E-CELL is part of the ambitious "AMG Lightweight Performance" design strategy.
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The SLS AMG E-CELL incorporates a liquid-cooled high-voltage lithium-ion battery featuring a modular design with an energy content of 48 kWh.
ENGADGET: Visualized: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell bares all
Geoff Day, head of communications for Mercedes-Benz USA, says the SLS AMG E-Cell uses lithium-battery technology currently unequaled in any other automaker, especially in terms of charging times and resiliance.
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The weight advantages achieved through the carbon-fibre battery monocoque are reflected in the agility of the SLS AMG E-CELL and, in conjunction with the highly innovative wheel-selective four-wheel drive system, ensure true driving enjoyment.
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Thanks to this sophisticated front-axle design, which has already been tried and tested in the world of motorsport, the agility and driving dynamics of the SLS AMG E-CELL attain the same high levels as the V8 variant.
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The additional front-wheel drive called for a newly designed front axle: unlike the series production vehicle with AMG V8 engine, which has a double wishbone axle, the SLS AMG E-CELL features an independent multi-link suspension with pushrod damper struts.
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"Several of Jaguar's rivals are already looking at various alternative powertrain technologies to use in the next generations of their high-performance vehicles, most notably Porsche's 918, Mercedes' SLS E-cell and BMW's i8, " observed IHS Global Insight analyst Ian Fletcher in a recent note.
Mercedes-Benz has the A-Class E Cell, sold only in Europe, and the B-Class F-CELL, but plans to debut the SLS-AMG E Cell in a battery electric version by 2013.
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It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
But what is different is the speed of technological progress since the mid-1990s, from the Internet and e-mail to cell phones and instant messaging.
For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they don't like the spying, especially since the full extent of such spying is deliberately hidden from us and there are few alternatives being marketed by companies that don't spy.
But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
In terms of written communication from passengers on the plane to people down below -- e-mail, text messages sent from cell phones, social network posts -- the more the better.
The Massachusetts-based company earlier this month announced Nectar, a portable fuel cell for recharging phones and e-books.
Never attempt to communicate with a hiring manager through their personal e-mail, home address, cell phone or telephone.
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The system monitors whether the other party is available on the phone, e-mail, IM or in cell phone range.
"Cell phones, e-mail, complex phone systems and the Internet all enhance the way megachurches work, " says Thumma, faculty associate at the Hartford Institute.
In Japan already, you can sell cell phones as e-mail terminals because people are standing in lines in trains for one and a half hours.
One of the only exceptions was the Rixos Hotel, where government minders came to check their e-mail (and charge their cell phones, as the power shortages got worse).
Reality mining may appear to be more science fiction than fact, but from our cell phones to e-mail to work ID badges, we leave behind constant trails of information about ourselves.
He also resisted other forms of contemporary technology and convenience, holding out against the cell phone and e-mail and continuing to write his opinions and dissents in longhand, using a fountain pen.
But ABC News reports that Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas, provided them with dozens of photos, e-mails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs related to her relationship with Weiner.
These kids deliver endorsements in school cafeterias, at sleepovers, by cell phone and by e-mail.
"There's just so much more potential when searching a cell phone or an e-mail archive, to uncover information that has no relevance to the object of the search, but yet could reveal many private and personal matters, " Silverstein says.
Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.
Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).
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By connecting the VR3 to a cell phone, users can send and receive e-mail and attachments and browse the Web.
Between your voicemail inbox, the fax machine, your cell phone, and your inbox in your e-mail and the Web, it's just becoming too much.
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