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Kia surprisingly tops Hyundai in market value with affordable EVs rolling out

Baua Electric

For the first time since 2001, Kia surpassed Hyundai in market value with new affordable EVs rolling out this year. Despite a “difficult business environment” expected this year, Kia plans to keep the momentum up by launching new lower-cost EVs. Meanwhile, the EV4 is an “entirely new type of EV sedan.”

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

Cars That Think

I was excited about using my analysis and math skills to enable new science at Goddard,” she says. She conducted research on radiation environments and their effects on electronic systems. Congress and launched in 2001. She wrote its space-environment specifications. It received US $2 billion from the U.S.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

Most of the new vehicles have received special praise for their interiors, which has been a priority for GM since Bob Lutz assumed product design responsibilities in 2001. A pure HCCI mode, during light to medium loads, when no spark event is required for combustion. Click to enlarge. No increase in the role of diesels.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. My grades took off right after he showed up.”

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. The semiconductor first established itself commercially in 2000 in the markets for light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

We’ve since ratcheted down the electric use here at my home and in my office and studio watt by watt until we hit our new all time low just last month as we used just 357 kWh which cost us $46.24. The Big Dick Cheney Effect. Then I’ll be generating my own clean, renewable power and wait till you see what I do with that.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

The more time I spend with Lillian Light the more I admire, respect and flat out like her. I want to be as vital and meaningful as Lillian Light is when I grow up. I began our interview by asking Lillian about the early days of EPN which she helped found in 2001. What was your environmental priority in 2001 and what is it today?

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