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Escaping the largest EF5 tornado in history - El Reno, OK - full dashcam sequence

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Read this frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the El Reno encounter: http://stormhighway.com/blog2013/sept2713a.php (Read descripton and transcript below) This is video from my front-facing and later rear-facing dash camera while escaping the core of, and hit by the outer circulation of, the EF5 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado in my Toyota Yaris on Reuter Road between 6:16PM and 6:30PM CDT on May 31, 2013.

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HUTCHISON effect:  Solid Iron Bar begins to liquify.  Metal Mutation.

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HUTCHISON effect: Solid Iron Bar begins to liquify. Metal Mutation.

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100% WTC Drone Attack/Strike Plane PROOF (Many Witnesses)

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FAQ: 1: What happened to the people on the 4 missing airliners? Impossible to know exactly since the CIA had known hijack drills that morning, fake radar data was inserted and real rada data was replaced. The CIA planned to hijack airliners and fly them to military bases in "operation malgom virgo".

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BigDog climbs in the woods, keeps its balance when kicked and when slipping on ice, travels through snow and mud, jogs 5 mph, and climbs some rubble.

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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

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Online TV news archives are a crucial digital resource to facilitate the awareness of and critical study of Media Ecology. Two significant research and teaching outcomes for this area of study are A) to better understand the role of television news regarding the mediation of society and its popular memory, and B) to underscore the significance of television news to the goal of an informed citizenry.

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Should the Authorities Be Able to Access Your iPhone

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Should the Authorities Be Able to Access Your iPhone

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WASHINGTON - As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge in California turns on an 18th century law. More practically, though, it boils down to this question: Should you be able to lock your phone so securely that even the F.B.I. cannot open it?

The Obama administration and police officers around the country say no, and their precedent is the past. Homes and cars do not have unbreakable locks. You cannot buy an uncrackable safe. And terrorists and child molesters should not be able to buy a hand-held computer that keeps its secrets forever.

Apple, backed by technologists and civil libertarians, says yes. People live their lives electronically; their phones are a record of loves and fantasies, illnesses and losses. Apple built its recent iPhones to keep that data private and says nothing less than the future of privacy is at stake in this fight.

The Justice Department's success in obtaining a court order demanding that Apple help write software to disable those defenses was a significant victory for the Obama administration. It relied on the All Writs Act, a law that can trace its origins to the first Congress in 1789. In short, it says courts can require that people do things to comply with their orders.

For months, the Justice Department and Apple have been trading heated rhetoric and lurching toward this very confrontation, only to back away. By the end of last year, it seemed that Apple and other technology companies had won the public relations battle.

The attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., in December, however, changed the government's calculation. Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two people suspected of killing 14 people, left behind an iPhone 5c - a locked one. The F.B.I. has not been able to get access to any data on it.

For the administration, it was perhaps the perfect test case, one that put Apple on the side of keeping secrets for a terrorist.

Mr. Farook's phone is protected by a password that Apple says it does not keep. It is encrypted with an algorithm the company says it cannot break. The F.B.I. wants to write a computer program to send the phone an unlimited combination of passwords until it finds one that works.

But Apple built its phones to protect against that tactic. Each wrong guess causes a short delay, which would significantly slow the F.B.I.'s effort. After too many incorrect guesses, the phone will automatically erase its memory.

There is little middle ground between the positions of the Justice Department and Apple, and Timothy D. Cook, the company's chief executive, did not back down. He issued a sharply worded statement on Wednesday, saying he planned to fight the order. He said the Obama administration was not only creating a dangerous precedent but was demanding the creation of a dangerous tool - a skeleton key that could be used by hackers and totalitarian governments.

"Once the information is known, or a way to bypass the code is revealed, the encryption can be defeated by anyone with that knowledge," Mr. Cook said. "The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that's simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices."

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Should the Authorities Be Able to Access Your iPhone?

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WASHINGTON - As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge in California turns on an 18th century law. More practically, though, it boils down to this question: Should you be able to lock your phone so securely that even the F.B.I.

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Dr Judy Wood interview - 911 Investigation

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Interview discussing what happened to the twin towers, October 2011. For anyone who thinks the possibility of 911 being constructed/aided by America's own Government/Military is unrealistic, look up Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio, Operation Cyanide and the Patriot Act (including how it was passed). Dr Judy Wood's qualifications: B.S.

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A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)

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Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech

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This section of the report focuses on cellphone usage in group settings and social gatherings - encounters where people's use of cellphones might change the basic dynamic of the group.

The survey probed these issues in several ways. The findings show that people use their phones in such gatherings with mixed impacts on the social dynamic of the group and varied feelings about the appropriateness of their phone usage. There are times when people use their phones to further the activities of the group and there are times when phone use is a tactic of social disengagement.

In general, Americans feel that when people use their cellphones in social gatherings it hurts the conversation more often than it helps

In the main, Americans think that when people focus on their phones instead of their companions, it hurts the group in which they are participating. This Pew Research Center survey attempted to measure feelings about this complicated issue from both directions - respondents were asked first about whether cellphone use might hurt social gatherings, and then whether cell phone use might help gatherings. It was possible for them to answer "yes" to both questions, or "no" to both.

The social balance sheet they constructed looks like this:

Phone use hurts gatherings: 82% of all adults (not just cell owners) say that when people use their cellphones at social gatherings, it at least occasionally hurts the conversation and atmosphere of the gathering. Some 37% say it "frequently" hurts the gathering and another 45% say it "occasionally" hurts the gathering, while only 18% say it "rarely" or "never" hurts the gathering.

Phone use helps gatherings: On the other hand, 33% of Americans say that when people use their phones at social gatherings it at least occasionally contributes to the conversation and helps the atmosphere of the gathering. Only 5% say such phone use "frequently" helps and 29% say it "occasionally" helps. Meanwhile, 66% feel that when people use their cellphones at social gatherings it "rarely" or "never" helps the tenor of the event.

The strongest objections to phone use during social get-togethers come from women, whites and older cellphone users. Older women are especially bothered when people turn to their screens during a gathering: 52% of women age 50 and older say that cellphone use at social gatherings "frequently" hurts the occasion; similarly, 35% of women in that age bracket say that cellphone use "never" contributes to a gathering. Overall, adults 65 and older are especially likely to say that cellphone use in social settings frequently harms the gathering and also to say that it never helps the gathering.

Additionally, 85% of whites say that cell use during social gatherings frequently or occasionally hurts the gathering, compared with 71% of blacks and 76% of Hispanics who say the same. And 69% of whites say such phone use rarely or never contributes to the atmosphere of the gathering, compared with 62% of blacks and 60% of Hispanics.

Inevitably, there is variance in views among the young and the old, as the nearby chart illustrates.

Despite the consensus that cellphone use harms group interactions, most cellphone owners think their phone use does not necessarily take their attention away from the group

In addition to asking about their views on cellphone use in group settings generally, the survey also asked cellphone owners about the impact of their own mobile device usage during group interactions. Some 75% said their phone use took none (32%) or only "a little" (43%) of their attention away from the group; 18% say their phone use took some of their attention away from the group; another 6% say their use took "a lot" of their attention away from their immediate social setting.

In many cases, people use their phones in the midst of social settings to connect to another person - so they are being social in a way, even if they are not being social with those nearby. Some 41% of cell owners indicate that at least some of their cellphone usage in group social gatherings is for the purpose of connecting to others: 14% of cellphone owners say that "a lot" of their phone use in group social settings is to get in touch or connect with someone else, while 27% say that "some" of their phone use is for this purpose. Meanwhile, a majority of cellphone users say that only a little (36%) or none (23%) of their cell use in social settings is to get in touch or connect with others.

In spite of their misgivings about the impact of mobile devices on group interactions, many cell owners pick up their own mobile devices when they are at social gatherings

Despite their general concerns about the impact of cellphones in social settings, the vast majority of cell owners say they themselves use their phones during their own social gatherings. However, they often say they use their phones in these settings in order to do things that connect to the group.

In this survey, cellphone owners were asked to think about the most recent time they were at a social gathering and to indicate whether they used their cellphone in various ways during that gathering. Overall, 89% of cellphone owners ages 18 and older say that they used their phone in at least one of the ways we asked about. A majority of cell owners indicated that they used their phone to read or send messages, take photos or videos, or receive an incoming call during their most recent social gathering. Fewer used their phones to disengage entirely from the group, such as checking to see if they had any alerts, placing a call, using an app, or searching or browsing the web.

In general, smartphone owners were significantly more likely to have done many of these at a recent social gathering, even when the activities are not necessarily smartphone-specific. For instance, 73% of smartphone owners read a message such as a text or email, compared with 30% of regular cellphone owners. In addition, 70% of smartphone owners took a photo or video during their most recent social gathering, compared with 27% of regular cellphone owners, and 64% of smartphone owners sent one, compared with 22% of regular cellphone owners.

Moreover, younger cellphone owners were far more likely to have used their phones in each of these ways at a recent social gathering than older cell users. Fully 98% of young adults used their phone for at least one of these reasons during a recent gathering, compared with 69% of cell owners 65 and older.

Cellphone owners ages 18 to 29 are more likely to have turned to their screen during a recent social gathering for some of the individual activities we queried, including reading messages, sending messages, using apps, looking for alerts and browsing the web.

There are also some differences between men and women. At their most recent social gathering, among cellphone owners, men were more likely than women to:

receive a call: 56% of cellphone-owning men did this vs. 48% of cellphone-owning women

check to see if they had received an alert: 37% of cellphone-owning men did this vs. 31% of cellphone-owning women

place a call: 37% of cellphone-owning men did this vs. 30% of cellphone-owning women

use an app: 34% of cellphone-owning men did this vs. 24% of cellphone-owning women

search or browse the web: 30% of cellphone-owning men did this vs. 21% of cellphone-owning women

People often use their cells during social gatherings to add to the group's interactions

In a follow-up question, we asked those who said they had recently used their phone at a social gathering the reasons for their cellphone use. Among the reasons we asked about, the most common responses relate to activities that add to the immediate gathering, rather than retreat from it. A relatively large number of those who used their phone during a recent social gathering did so to:

post a picture or video of the group (45%)

share something that had occurred in the group by text, email or social networking site (41%)

get information that would be interesting to the group (38%)

connect with other people who are known by the group (31%)

Overall, 78% cited at least one of these four "group-contributing" reasons.

On the other hand, a share of those cell users who used their phone in a recent social gathering said they had used their phone in order to disengage with the group in one way or another. Some 16% said they used their phone because they are no longer interested in what the group was doing; 15% used their phone to connect with people outside the group (and who are not known to the other people in attendance); and 10% said they used their phone to avoid participating in what the group was discussing. Overall, 30% cited at least one of these three "group-detracting" reasons.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, smartphone users are more likely than other cell users to have used their phones for most of these activities. However, smartphone owners are not significantly more likely than regular cell users to say they used their phone to avoid participating in what the group was discussing.

Younger adults are more likely to use their phone for "group-enhancing" reasons - but also are more likely to use their phones in ways that detract from the group at hand

Among cell phone owners who recently used their phone at a social gathering, younger users are more likely than older users to say they had used their phones for each of the reasons we asked about. These differences are especially pronounced when it comes to using one's cellphone for getting information that would be interesting for the group and connecting with people known by the group, but also for all three of the activities that might distance people from the group.

What others did at a recent social gathering

A separate question asked all respondents (not just cellphone users) about others' cellphone use at a recent group event. In response, 86% of adults said that they remember someone else using their phone at the most recent social gathering they attended.

Some 90% of the cell users who said they used their phone in a recent social gathering also said that someone else at that the gathering also used their cellphone. By comparison, just 68% of cellphone users who did not use their cell in a recent social gathering said someone else used a phone at that gathering. This raises some questions as to the role of group social norms in setting standards of behavior around cellphone use: Those who use their phones in groups may also be more likely to be in groups where phone use is more common and therefore have higher expectations that people's cell use will be part of the gathering's environment.

A similar dynamic applies to the age of cell owners. Those under age 50 (91%) are more likely than older adults to say someone else used a phone at their most recent social gathering, particularly those ages 65 and older (78%). Smartphone users also more likely than regular cell users to say someone else used a phone, as are people living in higher income households or those who have higher levels of education. There are no significant differences by gender or by race or ethnicity.

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Chapter 4: Phone use in social gatherings

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This section of the report focuses on cellphone usage in group settings and social gatherings - encounters where people's use of cellphones might change the basic dynamic of the group. The survey probed these issues in several ways.

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Three generations of BigDog, including robot pup and recent highlights. 2004-2010.

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A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning.

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Watch "A Day Made of Glass" and take a look at Corning's vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it. Learn more about Corning at corning.com. Search for career opportunities at corning.com/careers. credits to:CorningIncorporated

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My new favorite show is Scott Wolter's American Unearthed. His show takes a scientific approach to controversial topics.
Today, I'm commenting on the Michigan copper episode, where Scott investigates the idea that Minoans mined copper and tin in Michigan 5000 years ago.
I'm not an expert in the techniques used by either the mainstream academics or alternative theorists, but I attempt to use my science and math training to evaluate both sides.
This episode of Unearthed begins with the uncovering of theNewberry Tablet.

As you can see it is engraved with a grid of odd symbols. These symbols turn out to be Minoan-Hittite. The tablet was found in Michigan BEFORE the Minoan culture was identified in Crete and supposedly before anyone even knew these symbols existed. This makes a hoax, unless done by a clairvoyant, nearly impossible, but the Smithsonian did label it a hoax, largely because they had never seen the symbols before.
Here are my observations about the tablet:
1. The stone tablet has deteriorated very rapidly since it was discovered 100+ years ago, so how did it survive in near pristine shape in an open field for 5000 years? This is a major problem for me, and discredits the proposed age of the tablet unless some explanation can be produced.
2. It is interesting that the tablet seems to be an array of symbols, like a tool for teaching a,b, c's, not a text or message. One website says it translates into a pray to the gods for luck.
Next Scott shows us arock engraving of a sailing boat [NOTE: the linked article is a detailed study of the Michigan copper by Jay Stuart Wakefield].

It could be Viking, Minoan, or Greek or almost anything. I've never seen a Native American boat with a sail, so I'm going to assume that it doesn't represent an American boat. However, it is rather important to know if the engraving is 50 years old or 5000 years old.
Two important factors in this puzzle are the amount of the Michigan copper removed and its purity.
Volume of copper removed from Michigan: It is accepted knowledge that copper was mined in Michigan 5000 years ago. It has also been mined in historical times as well. I think it is pretty clear that the Native Americans used very little copper for weapons or art [This article contends that Native Americans mined the copper and supports it with information about an emerging copper culture among the natives]. The statements in the previously linked article aside, I believe it is possible to determine, with sufficient degree of accuracy, how much unaccounted for copper was mined in ancient times.
Estimate total volume of copper removed: Done by sampling the extent of the mining, the ore content of historically mined copper, and then extrapolating to a total volume. This idea is said to be unscientific at other websites, but such estimations were used continually by Enrico Fermi. The Drake Equation is an example of it. For starters, classify mines into several types, use historical records to estimate average return across mines by type, use forensics and historical record to separate ancient from modern mines, etc. You do not have to get an exact amount of ancient copper removed, but only an order of magnitude. If the mines were used by Europeans, you only need to show that 10 times or more the projected use by natives was recovered. If your estimates imply a smaller amount, then they don't support the European theory.
Estimate and subtract total volume done in historical times: This should be possible from historical records.
Estimate the amount of copper used by Native Americans: Native Americans probably had other sources of copper that should be considered, e.g. the Southwestern sources like Santa Rita, Bisbee, and other modern copper mines. Estimate the total use of copper by Americans from the archeological record, extrapolate to cover undiscovered sites.
From the above a good estimate of the "missing" copper can be made. We know it had to go somewhere.
Purity of Michigan copper: Scott points out that the purity surpasses sources in Europe and matches the purity found in Minoan ingots of the Uluburun shipwreck. At first I thought this was bogus, being that all smelted copper would be highly pure. I though the amount and type of impurities in Michigan copper should be matched to the impurities in the Minoan shipwreck copper. However, I learned that ingots prepared for shipping are not highly refined and normally contain large amounts of impurities, so a highly pure ingot is significant. It turns out that the Minoan ingots have Michigan levels of purity. I still think other aspects of both Michigan and Minoan copper need to be compared to firm up the analysis.

The argument that the Minoans did not have the ships to navigate the rough Atlantic: Professor Cemal Pulak from Texas A & M Nautical Archeology says that the Minoan ships were not seaworthy for the Atlantic. From the start, he is an expert and I'm not-but I must point out that Vikings roamed the North Atlantic in boats about the same size and that skimmed the water like a leaf. Some claim they only drafted six inches. Furthermore, ancient sailors could hug the coast of Europe hopping from port to port. They could hop across the North Atlantic from island to island. Thus a one way trip could take two or more warm seasons. It the cargo were valuable enough, certainly they might tolerate wintering over once or twice along the way.
Lastly, I researched Richard the Lionhearted for my third book, Seekers of the Scroll. Of particular interest was the moving of troops across the Mediterranean during the crusades. The Mediterranean is far from a benign sea, and in crusader days, ports were closed for winter season from about October through April. The fact that Crete gets snow on its mountains is an indicator of this. So if Minoan ships could negotiate the Mediterranean, could they not also negotiate the Atlantic, particularly if a coast hugging, port hopping route were taken?
I don't discount the idea that Minoans came to Michigan, but neither do I believe it has been solidly proven with the limited information given on the show. However, if a good estimate of the volume of copper mined in ancient times plus a more thorough qualitative comparison of the copper and impurities would solidify the theory for me. Also a discovery of Minoan ports along the Atlantic coast of Europe would go a long way toward proving the point.
A wild card alternative would be that the copper was mined by the Atlantians. This isn't as crazy as it sounds. There recently was a scientific search forAtlantis and a likely site was found on the coast of Spain. It is believed plausible that the Minoan culture was the fabled Atlantis, and that Santorini was its capital. What if the Spanish site were an outpost of the Minoan culture and indeed Atlantians and Minoans were the same people?
Link to one more essay on this subject

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My new favorite show is Scott Wolter's American Unearthed . His show takes a scientific approach to controversial topics. Today, I'm commenting on the Michigan copper episode, where Scott investigates the idea that Minoans mined copper and tin in Michigan 5000 years ago.

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A trip down Market Street 2005, is echoing the film made a century ago of the same journey. Not as magical as the 1905 film, and the street seems to have lost allot of the hustle and bustle of those days.....Still, it's amazing to see the difference 100 years can make.

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1906 san francisco earthquake (disaster)

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4 days before the 1906 san francisco earth quake

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Time Travel - 4 Days Before the Great Earthquake - You're On A San Francisco Cable Car April 1906

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A historical ride (camera mounted on the front of a cable car) down Market Street in San Francisco on April 14, 1906. It was one of the first 35mm films ever taken. The clock tower at the end of Market Street at the Embarcadero (Spanish for Wharf) is still there.

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GM developing Rival Tesla 200 mi range EV

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GM developing Rival Tesla 200 mi range EV

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2014 Chevrolet Spark EV prototype, Sausalito, CA, Nov 2012
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So far, the Tesla Model S is alone among plug-in electric cars in providing 200 miles or more of electric range.

But as Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] prepares to roll out its more affordable Model E late in 2016, it may face serious competition from General Motors.

GM is developing a Tesla-rivaling car that can go 200 miles on a charge and would cost $30,000, The Wall Street Journal reports.

(Tesla CEO Elon Musk later tweeted, "Am happy to hear that GM plans to develop an affordable 200 mile range electric car. Right target. Hope others do same.")

But while the General has the technology to build this new electric car, it won't go on sale particularly soon--due to high battery costs, said Douglas Parks, GM's vice president of global product programs.

He made the comments at a ceremony opening an expansion of GM's battery test lab at the company's Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.

Tesla is widely thought to have the lowest battery cost per kilowatt-hour of any plug-in electric carmaker.

It uses thousands of Panasonic "commodity" cells, specially designed to be even less expensive than the ones used in your laptop, and has many patents on this unique approach--which is not presently used by any other automaker.

This isn't the first time GM has discussed an electric car with a 200-mile range range that would sell for the price of a nicely-equipped mid-size Malibu.

Back in March, GM CEO Dan Akerson confirmed that his company was working on such a car, citing breakthroughs in battery technology "on the horizon" that would make it possible.

One such breakthrough may come from Envia Systems, a Newark, California-based company in which GM invested $17 million in 2011.

Envia specializes in lithium-ion cathode technology, and claims it can create batteries with greater energy density.

Specifically, Envia has claimed an energy density of 400 watt-hours per kilogram--much higher than the 140 watt-hours per kilogram of the Nissan Leaf's battery pack.

GM may be waiting for this battery technology to become available for its Tesla rival, rather than using the same LG Chem cells as the Chevrolet Volt and Cadillac ELR.

Currently, GM's only battery-electric car is the Chevrolet Spark EV, which has a maximum range of 82 miles and starts at $26,685.

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GM Developing Tesla Model E Rival: 200-Mile, $30,000 Electric Car?

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2014 Chevrolet Spark EV prototype, Sausalito, CA, Nov 2012 Enlarge Photo So far, the Tesla Model S is alone among plug-in electric cars in providing 200 miles or more of electric range. But as Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] prepares to roll out its more affordable Model E late in 2016, it may face serious competition from General Motors.