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The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

I took the photos that now illustrate it here on my blog within the last hour: My name is Joe Galliani, I’m 52 years old and I’ve lived in Southern California for 33 years. (c) c) 2009 by Joe Galliani - This afternoon's view from my studio's patio. c) 2009 by Joe Galliani - My neighbor across the street's house.

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The "Spirit's" Getting Itchy Tires. Readying for the PluginAmerica-sponsored Inaugural Parade West: Plug In, America. Come Saturday, 17 Jan 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

on Saturday, 17 January 2009 in Santa Monica. Join in with PluginAmerica in urging Congress, Detroit and our new President to build plug-in vehicles, in calling for 1 million plug-ins by 2012 and, 15 million by 2016. More blogging will now be forthcoming! See PluginAmerica notice (somewhat edited and updated).

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Peter Valdes-Dapena , CNNMoney.com senior writer Last Updated: April 15, 2009: 2:59 PM ET The Dodge Circuit, slated to enter production late next year, is based on a vehicle platform engineered by Britains Lotus.

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Scale

Green Car Congress

Brian Arthur in his seminal 2009 book on evolution in technology clearly establishes that innovation happens at the right level of granularity where combination and recombination through novel linkages is easy. Now this is problematic in that it ignores context and also misunderstands complexity.

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GMs HCCI Demonstrator Combines a Set of Enabling Technologies and Strategies for Extending Operating Range

Green Car Congress

SAE 2009-01-0499) Click to enlarge. SAE 2009-01-0499). SAE 2009-01-0923). Enhancing Light Load HCCI Combustion in a Direct Injection Gasoline Engine by Fuel Reforming During Recompression (SAE 2009-01-0923). GM approaches to extending the operating range of classic HCCI. Adapted from Yun et al. Applied in a 2.2-liter

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GM's New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

In April 2009, Consumer Reports recommended only 17% of the GM cars they tested while they recommended 70% of the Fords. The Cadillac CTS/CTS-V is on Car and Drivers Top Ten list and in the July 2009 issue Motor Trend said “ Yet where it really matters, as a performance sedan, the CTS-V soundly spanks the BMW M5.

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