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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. & Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. And the first time the public got to see it was in 1994 in a very exciting debut.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

Driivz

MD trucks are accelerating, HD trucks are getting started on the road to electrification Between corporate decarbonization goals “pulling” and government regulations “pushing” fleet electrification , momentum towards electrification of heavy duty vehicles is starting to take hold. million fleet vehicles in the U.S.

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Opinion: Political Climate Shifting Against The Oil And Gas Industry

Green Car Congress

A report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve singled out the oil and gas sector when it concluded that credit risk was rising across the United States. Nick Cunningham is a Vermont-based writer on energy and environmental issues.

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