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What's the matter with Costco?

Plugs and Cars

Put in service during California's Zero Emission Mandate between 1997 and 2003 when about 6000 EVs roamed the streets, these charge stations have continued supplying power to the RAV4 EVs and other electric vehicles saved by Plug In America when it was known as DontCrush.com, a struggle chronicled in the film Who Killed the Electric Car.

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Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation

Cars That Think

By then the warped NASA management culture that soon enabled the Columbia disaster in 2003 was fully in place. To reverse the apparent new cultural drift, NASA headquarters or some even higher office is going to have to intervene. Space cooperation continues to be a hallmark of U.S.

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IEEE: Will CARB Take Part in Plug-in Car Revival?

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The IEEE Spectrum Magazine for November 07 touts on its cover "Battery or Fuel-Cell Cars? That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). A California Cabal Will Decide." Interesting choice of headlines. The IEEE article does a decent job of wending through the ZEV morass.

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DEKRA-certified tests: Mercedes-Benz HD trucks cut fuel consumption 22% in 20 years while meeting more stringent emissions rules; VECTO

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The August 2016 testing by commercial vehicle magazine Lastauto Omnibus (LaO) compared the latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz Actros long-distance truck compared to the basic model of 1996—a Mercedes-Benz from the SK model series and therefore one of the last representatives of the pre-Actros era. Click to enlarge. l/100 km (5.76

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 Honda’s American depositary receipts fell 66 cents, or2.3 percent, to $27.65 at 4:01 p.m. in New York Stock Exchangecomposite trading. They have gained 30 percent this year. Former U.S. President George W. from its reliance on imported oil.

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

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In early 2003 the FCC announced a five-year “sunset”, after which the cellular providers would no longer be required to support the analog mobile phone system. The theory behind the algorithm and some experimental results will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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