By using an electric drive of the sort that is purring away in Leicestershire, ships can fire up their engines one at a time and run each at its most economical throttle setting.

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Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.

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It's sort of a halfway measure between a traditional electric vehicle where you just have batteries onboard.

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Remote vehicle-monitoring of this sort will be especially useful with the new generation of electric cars, such as Nissan's LEAF.

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