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Complainer’s Corner: Dealers Now Whinging About Rail Logistics

The Truth About Cars

A few are saying they have a point, whilst others muse it is a bit of karma for three years of price gouging and “additional dealer markups”. Back in Michigan, the financial partner of a dealer in Redford Township moaned to the Free Press that his store, Matick Chevrolet, only sold 165 new cars last month when they used to do “twice as many.”

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles. The Karma can be refueled quickly.) Price: $87,000.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. V2G stands for “vehicle-to-grid,&# a technology system being developed to enable electric cars to store power and sell it back to the grid. The Wall Street Journal assesses your EV readiness. Are You Plugged In? By Mara Lemos Stein. Are you ready?

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Intrinsic’s Flowstate Seeks to Simplify Industrial Robotics

Cars That Think

Intrinsic Intrinisic’s industry partner on this for the last several years is Comau , an Italian automation company that you may not have heard of but apparently built the first robotic assembly line in 1979—if a Wikipedia article with a bad citation is to be believed.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. run the hardware store and buy a new one. They make them all wrong.

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