Cars That Think

APRIL 5, 2023

Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. In 2002 Moore received a U.S. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

Once the PC business in IBM got folded into the main corporate structure, its costs of operating went up. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level. It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

DOT has been conducting research with automotive manufacturers since 2002 in order to assess the feasibility of developing effective crash avoidance systems that utilize vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As V2V Communications for Safety.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars. Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids.

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