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Study: Giant Pickups and SUVs More Dangerous to Pedestrians, Obviously

The Truth About Cars

Crash data accumulated through the 1970s supported this, simultaneously offering additional insights, and it wasn’t long before you saw the government beginning to mandate designs that took pedestrian safety into consideration. This is why pop-up headlights completely vanished in the early 2000s.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

Cars That Think

He served as the 2018–2019 president of the. Such engagements at the grassroots level gives me better insights into understanding the community's needs and help advance their professional careers. His many recognitions include the 2004 IEEE Region 6 Community Service Award and the 2012. CANDIDATE'S POSITION STATEMENT.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. The first technology demonstrator was the compact A2H2 in 2004, which was already equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM).

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