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

The Truth About Cars

It would also mean a visit and payment to your local Oldsmobile dealer if you wanted to use guidance in a part of the country not covered by your car’s current set of maps.& Additionally, portable offerings like Garmin came to market and would continually undercut the cost of in-car navigation packages.

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Backcountry Skiing Is Booming in the Northeast. But Can It Survive?

Baua Electric

Early last February, at the Mount Washington Backcountry Ski Festival in New Hampshire, the organizers faced an increasingly common problem: Terrible snow. Add in the rising cost of lift tickets at resorts and an increased desire for solitude fueled by the pandemic, and you get a spike in interest. Investing in a dying sport?

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Event: Ford Bronco Sport Off-Roadeo

Clean Fleet Report

Leaving the Pavement: Bronco Off-Roadeo Ford hosts Bronco Sport Off-Roadeo programs in Austin, Texas; Gilford, New Hampshire, and where we went through the program—Moab, Utah. It is important to educate our owners, but community is a big part of this, too. Our road tests are based on this one-week drive of a new vehicle.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

With gas prices going up and the cost of electric cars coming down, there are real economic benefits to driving electric,” said April Bolduc, EAA President. The Trotwood event was just one of many where EVHybridNoire played a part. National Drive Electric Week event in Exeter, New Hampshire.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

With gas prices going up and the cost of electric cars coming down, there are real economic benefits to driving electric,” said April Bolduc, EAA President. The Trotwood event was just one of many where EVHybridNoire played a part. National Drive Electric Week event in Exeter, New Hampshire.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

Green Car Congress

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Green Car Congress

The project will develop a new device called the Galloping Hydrokinetic Energy Extraction Device that will convert fast-moving river currents into an oscillating motion that will drive a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG). The DEG will generate electricity without the need for rotors or other moving parts. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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