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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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How Big Oil Stays on Top

Plugs and Cars

I guess they decided they were being cheap, so they ponied up another $2.5 These mega-corporations, it is not controversial to say, have too much power. As long as we have no choice but to buy their product, their power only increases. As long as we have no choice but to buy their product, their power only increases.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. They’re investing in more efficient energy sources and nuclear power. Obstacles to Licensing.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. In English-system (vs. it is in miles.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Emissions, however, are produced elsewhere, when the electricity used to power the vehicles is generated. The figure has doubled since 2005. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. Moreover, making an electric bicycle uses far less energy than making an electric car.