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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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DHL Freight and Volvo Trucks partner to speed introduction of longer-distance heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe

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DHL Freight, one of the leading road freight providers in Europe, and Volvo Trucks have partnered to speed up the introduction of heavy-duty electric trucks to be used for regional transport in Europe. DHL Freight and Volvo Trucks have initiated a project focusing on electric longer distance heavy transports.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

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Stage 1 Ventures led the first tranche of $34 million with participation from Air Waves Wireless Electricity and a strategic investment by Mitsubishi Corporation through its US subsidiary, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas). The extension included investments from Tony Fadell’s Future Shape and other private investors. Marin Solja?i?,

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Elon Musk re-clarifies story of Tesla’s early days and how it was founded

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It did not take long before the Tesla CEO decided to correct the narrative — and provide some new insights on Tesla’s early days in the process. . When Eberhard was fired unanimously by the board in July 2007 (for damn good reasons), no one left with him. That says it all,” Musk wrote. .

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The Real Reason for USA based Economic Recessions.

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I was asked to speak about the economic impact of our oil dependency and so I began researching this topic to see if I could draw some insightful conclusions. All of the recessions listed above were caused by oil except the early 2000 recession that was caused by September 11th, 2001. That is a 133% increase. Between the Fed?s

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IBM establishes the Smarter Energy Research Institute to accelerate transformation of energy and utilities market

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For example, the creation of coupled-predictive models allow for understanding, days in advance, the impact that a storm would cause on the electrical grid and preemptively position crews and resources to facilitate restoration efforts. As part of their participation, each member obtains usage rights for all the innovations (e.g.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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These will amplify the company’s recent car-sharing projects to test hardware and software systems and gain insights into car-sharing user experiences. electric concept vehicles went into service at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai as part of a multi-modal campus transportation system alongside bicycles, cars and shuttle buses.

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