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ICCT analysis finds real-world vehicle fuel consumption gap in Europe at all-time high of 42%

Green Car Congress

But even the new test procedure contains new loopholes that could permit the performance gap to increase again in the future. com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland). The ICCT researchers expect that because the WLTP more accurately reflects real-driving conditions it will help cut the real-world gap approximately in half.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EMC in Ireland Chief executive, Joe Tucci, on EMC in Ireland and the future high-growth areas in IT. IBM surveyed over 5,000 energy consumers in 12 countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We tried to get a feel for what these companies could do in the future by extrapolating from their current technology. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! “We looked heavily into the Mattel Intellivision,” recalls Winterble. “We We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800.

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