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GKN order book for electric driveline technologies totalled $2.8 billion by end of 2017

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GKN Driveline announced that its order book for electric driveline (eDrive) technologies hit a record £2 billion (US$2.8 As of 31 December 2017, GKN’s order book relating to eDrive was £2 billion following a number of major program wins. Sales, which were previously forecast to rise from £33 million (US$45.7

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. The invention was used by the U.S.

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Consumer Federation analysis of polling data and tech pricing finds consumer demands aligned with proposed MY 2017-2025 CAFE and GHG regulations for light-duty vehicles

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74% of those polled said the new fuel economy standards are a good idea. —Jack Gillis, Director of Public Affairs for CFA and author of The Car Book. The analysis found that a Chevy Malibu’s improvements in fuel economy over the past decade have increased the sticker price $348 compared to the 2002 price.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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While interest in this idea seems likely to grow as EVs proliferate, the prospect of electric car owners becoming power entrepreneurs appears more distant. Back in 2002, at the end of their experiment, the engineers at AC Propulsion concluded that what V2G really needed was a powerful institutional champion.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The idea of putting together a PC outside of IBM's development process disturbed some committee members. As Gerstner noted in his 2002 book , “What my colleagues seemed unwilling or unable to accept was that the war was already over and was a resounding defeat—90 percent market share for Windows to OS/2's 5 percent or 6 percent."

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Remembering IEEE Spectrum Columnist Bob Lucky

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He retired in 2002. He was a guest on a number of network TV broadcasts including A World of Ideas , where he discussed the impacts of technological advances. INFLUENTIAL SPEAKER AND WRITER Lucky authored or coauthored three books. It's a chatty and philosophical book with a minimum of mathematics,” he wrote.