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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Meanwhile, the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in car sharing services could be one way for automakers to promote this technology that is still struggling for traction in the marketplace. Some big players have jumped in and then retreated. trillion in 2026.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

home as “the Plug-In Mecca&# to tell this EV story right. Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times. The Whole Life Times just published an Interview with Chris : The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Filmmaker Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

In December last year, BYD began selling the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle, the F3DM, which is slated to go on sale in Europe in 2010 with a 62mile all-electric range. However, it’s not just the ‘big boys’ of motoring that are having an impact as we enter a new automotive era. Tesla Motors.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. Vehicle-to-grid interface technology is also particularly well suited to Plug-in vehicles.

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