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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. When the second-generation Diamante appeared here as a 1997 model, all production took place in Australia. 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante in Colorado wrecking yard.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

Cars That Think

In 2004, together with other physicians and engineers, he created a company to develop solutions based on his innovations. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. It resulted in a very first product, launched in 2011: MOVES, an innovative portable life support unit.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

Cars That Think

An active IEEE volunteer, Hodges served in several leadership roles including 2007 vice chair of the IEEE Awards Board and 2011–2012 vice president of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board. The next year he chaired the 2004 European Magnetic Sensors and Actuators Conference. as an engineer.

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California ARB Seeks Further Reductions of Diesel Emissions at State Rail Yards

Green Car Congress

While current state and federal measures are on target to reduce toxic diesel locomotive emissions 65% or more by 2020, additional measures recommended by ARB staff would ultimately provide up to 85% or greater emissions reductions within the rail yards over the same period, resulting in cleaner air for nearby residential neighborhoods as well.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. He calls Stockholm’s neighborhoods a “ string of pearls ” with a balanced use of land for work and housing—and yet Stockholm has relatively high level of car ownership (555 cars/ 1000 inhabitants). Cervero, The Scandinavian Model: Strings of TODs, Urban Land, May, 2004, p.

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