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Opinion: 4 Things You Should Think About Before Buying a Sports Car

Clean Fleet Report

If you spend most of the week huddled in a conference room or behind a computer, spend the rest of the day indoors, perhaps an expensive sports car is not your ideal possession. Personal tastes and preferences, such as transmission type and color, should also be considered. Remember, you are buying a car, not a deal.

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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion

EV Central

I wouldn’t say he sounds smug and self-satisfied, because I hate understatement too much, but I would say he seems unlikely to buy an electric car any time ever. Personally, I think it’s time for fines to be levied on wilful stupidity. The post Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion appeared first on EV Central.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. Another issue is being capacity constrained during rush hour if you only have one person per vehicle.

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Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

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Public and personal transportation will be fully integrated to save time, conserve resources and lower emissions. Bill Ford began talking about the future of personal mobility in the context of ever-increasing congestion last year at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach. Despite this, car buying is growing at a rate of 7.5%

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. must create a strong electric car industry. The answer may lie in Silicon Valley. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. You can buy it now. Maybe three.

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