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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC.

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Non-bike bike gear tested: Foldylock Forever is the most secure folding lock, period.

Baua Electric

Someone will eventually mention Lockpicking Lawyer and say you’re all wasting your time. It’s not cheap – I’ll tell you that immediately. But good quality isn’t cheap, and if I could go back and spend that $125 before my $3,000 e-bike was stolen last year , I’d do it in a heartbeat. Basically, there’s little consensus.

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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

Baua Electric

But these ships have been in short supply in recent years, with older vessels being retired and new ship orders down due to both the 2008 financial crisis and the industry upgrade to less-polluting fuels, reports MIT Technology Review. Hence, cheap EVs coming your way (well, not in the US, at least not yet anyway).

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

Green Car Congress

Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class. The three nexuses are linked by climate change.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

EV Info

Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. OfGem review the price cap every six months. Smart Meters waste. Right now, production is low in Russia, so the cost has increased. No Fracking. The unit cost of Gas in the UK is 4 times the price of US Gas. – Expect plenty of company failures.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The awardees went through a rigorous process including a review with CalSEED’s curated technical advisory committee, who volunteered their time and expertise to select the most promising future clean energy technologies.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

Cars That Think

And it was a great waste of time. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. So what we’re finding with EDS-HAT is that the data mining of the electronic health record can help us to identify transmission routes that are very difficult to identify by traditional EHR review.