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ISU study finds large potential for biobased materials in auto industry, but with challenges

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Their report, “Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”, was developed for the USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses. Biobased materials may require substantial testing to ensure safety standards can be met. —“Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation”. Biobased Automobile Parts Investigation. Biodegradability.

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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

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While GM hopes to reach agreement with the Swedish government, the Saab Automobile AB subsidiary could file for reorganization as early as this month. Saturn will remain in operation for the next several years, through the end of the planned lifecycle for all Saturn products.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

The diagram helped me to see where protocols would need to be standardized.” A draft of a formal TCP standard came out in December 1973. Eventually, after four iterations of the standard, Cerf says, things were finally looking stable. “Those were the constraints of the problem,” he says. and University College London.

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Wall Street Report

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Hybrid automobiles work with two engines. They see plug-ins as a means to meet tightening air-pollution standards and to use controls over utilities as a way to clean up urban air. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. until Japanese companies began selling them in 1999.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. The XHT is a new generation of plug-in hybrid drive train ready to multiply the gas mileage of any SUV or any standard sedan." ( Company PressRelease ) BYD Auto top 2/3/08 BYD Auto Co., The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."

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