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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Former EV1 driver Doug Korthof's 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV. Click here to see more coverage from the Bring Back the GM EV1 Press Conference. ]. said Holden.

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EuroCarBody Award 2015 goes to the Carbon Core body of the new BMW 7 Series

Green Car Congress

The Carbon Core body structure of the new BMW 7 Series has been awarded the EuroCarBody Award 2015 at the 17 th Global Car Body Benchmarking Conference. The EuroCarBody Award has been announced at the annual conference of experts every year since 2002 and is regarded as a leading award for innovations in car body construction.

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NIST calculates H2 pipeline can cost up to 68% more than nat gas pipeline; proposes code change to reduce cost

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The preferred production route for this material is thermomechanical rolling to maximize grain refinement, which is the only strengthening mechanism that improves both strength and toughness simultaneously. Nie In Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, 2-6 Aug, 2010, Cairns, Australia.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” They could create new products made of recycled copper, gold, silver, steel, plastics, keeping them out of our landfills. There was no iPhone or Internet of Things.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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He planned to develop products to license or sell to one or more of the many large multinationals in Singapore. These “original equipment manufacturers” made computers for Apple, Dell, and other companies who outsourced the production of their designs. From popular product to pirate battle. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Cocconi was also dismayed by the automaker’s decision to equip the production car with an off-board rather than onboard charger, which he believed would limit the car’s utility. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time. James Cortada I believe it would be because a lot of the work that it does is behind the scenes in conference rooms and data centers that the public doesn't see. And the marketplace also began to compete based on price. You could go to the U.S.

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