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Vaclav Smil: Cars weigh too much

Green Car Congress

And so the outlook is for ever-better engines or electric motors in heavy vehicles used in a way that results in the worst weight-to-payload ratios for any mechanized means of personal transportation in history. metric tons, General Motors’ Volt is more than 1.7 —Vaclav Smil. metric tons. —Vaclav Smil.

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GM and IBM bring OnStar and Watson together for new cognitive mobility platform: OnStar Go

Green Car Congress

General Motors and IBM are partnering to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. —Phil Abram, Executive Director, GM Connected Products and Strategy.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part II)

The Truth About Cars

Conceived as a new high-end convertible in the years leading up to the personal luxury car, the Series 62 Eldorado “sports convertible” wore unique sheet metal to all other Cadillac models in 1953. There was an 11-page instruction book for the operation of the Eldorado’s roof, as it was largely manual.&

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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How Much Privacy Do You Really Have In Modern Vehicles?

The Truth About Cars

Still, Nissan products ended up receiving the same negative score as the vehicles being offered up by Volkswagen, General Motors, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai and all of its subsidiaries. That’s three times as much time per product than we normally do. Never mind how creepy that is.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. More and more professionals came to realize that networking technology would generate important benefits. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM. All the U.S.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

We fully expected to have one or two contenders from General Motors’ ambitious lineup of Ultium-based vehicles contending for the Most Important title. The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. and Canada chosen by their peers.

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