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

The Truth About Cars

The show car was production ready, save for the Guidestar. The all-new navigation system entered testing in late 1994 and was put into production Oldsmobiles for the 1995 model year. Ninety Eight was also due to be phased out in favor of the upcoming flagship Aurora, a most needed product change.&

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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

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Region States Feedstocks Potential production capacity Land use.

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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 Mini Cooper SE was one of the big hits of the day, and BMW was kind enough to bring along the pre-production iX and i4 as well as a beautiful i8.”

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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 Mini Cooper SE was one of the big hits of the day, and BMW was kind enough to bring along the pre-production iX and i4 as well as a beautiful i8.”

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

Moreover, technological innovations have helped lower the overall costs of cars while disposable income in many countries has increased. In an LA Times op-ed piece, Steven Greenhouse explains how driverless technology could ultimately cost 5 million people their jobs, which amounts to about 3 percent of the workforce. About the Author.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

According to GM, the updated standard can be expected by the end of the summer — just in time, perhaps, for the first production prototypes of the Chevy Volt. at tripenyinc (Manchester, New Hampshire) Product Manager at Synacor (Buffalo, New York) all jobs | post a job | jobs feed Subscribe to Earth2Tech © 2009 The GigaOM Network.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. At $3 a watt, as soon as people grasp what that means, at $3 a watt you’re sub-ten year payback for a 40 year product. That’s correct.

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